On the Elementary Symmetric Functions of $\{1,1/2,\dots,1/n\}\backslash\{1/i\}$
Number Theory
2025-02-26 v1
Abstract
In 1946, P. Erd\H{o}s and I. Niven proved that there are only finitely many positive integers for which one or more of the elementary symmetric functions of , are integers. In 2012, Y. Chen and M. Tang proved that if , then none of the elementary symmetric functions of are integers. In this paper, we prove that if , then none of the elementary symmetric functions of are integers except for and .
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@article{arxiv.2502.18267,
title = {On the Elementary Symmetric Functions of $\{1,1/2,\dots,1/n\}\backslash\{1/i\}$},
author = {Weilin Zhang and Hongjian Li and Sunben Chiu and Pingzhi Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18267},
year = {2025}
}