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Linear Diophantine equations in Piatetski-Shapiro sequences

Number Theory 2021-09-22 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A Piatetski-Shapiro sequence with exponent α\alpha is a sequence of integer parts of nαn^\alpha (n=1,2,)(n = 1,2,\ldots) with a non-integral α>0\alpha > 0. We let PS(α)\mathrm{PS}(\alpha) denote the set of those terms. In this article, we study the set of α\alpha so that the equation ax+by=czax + by = cz has infinitely many pairwise distinct solutions (x,y,z)PS(α)3(x,y,z) \in \mathrm{PS}(\alpha)^3, and give a lower bound for its Hausdorff dimension. As a corollary, we find uncountably many α>2\alpha > 2 such that PS(α)\mathrm{PS}(\alpha) contains infinitely many arithmetic progressions of length 33.

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@article{arxiv.2009.12899,
  title  = {Linear Diophantine equations in Piatetski-Shapiro sequences},
  author = {Toshiki Matsusaka and Kota Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12899},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages

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