English

Lonely runners in function fields

Number Theory 2019-04-17 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

The lonely runner conjecture, now over fifty years old, concerns the following problem. On a unit length circular track, consider mm runners starting at the same time and place, each runner having a different constant speed. The conjecture asserts that each runner is lonely at some point in time, meaning distance at least 1/m1/m from the others. We formulate a function field analogue, and give a positive answer in some cases in the new setting.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.01207,
  title  = {Lonely runners in function fields},
  author = {Sam Chow and Luka Rimanic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01207},
  year   = {2019}
}
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