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The Compression method and applications

Number Theory 2026-03-25 v13

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce and develop the method of compression of points in space. We introduce the notion of the mass, the rank, the entropy, the cover and the energy of compression. We leverage this method to prove some class of inequalities related to Diophantine equations. In particular, we show that for each L<n1L<n-1 and for each K>n1K>n-1, there exist some (x1,x2,,xn)Nn(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n)\in \mathbb{N}^n with xixjx_i\neq x_j for all 1i<jn1\leq i<j\leq n such that \begin{align} \frac{1}{K^{n}}\ll \prod \limits_{j=1}^{n}\frac{1}{x_j}\ll \frac{\log (\frac{n}{L})}{nL^{n-1}}\nonumber \end{align} and that for each L>n1L>n-1 there exist some (x1,x2,,xn)(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n) with xixjx_i\neq x_j for all 1i<jn1\leq i<j\leq n and some s2s\geq 2 such that \begin{align} \sum \limits_{j=1}^{n}\frac{1}{x_j^s}\gg s\frac{n}{L^{s-1}}.\nonumber \end{align}

Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.08075,
  title  = {The Compression method and applications},
  author = {Theophilus Agama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.08075},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

27 pages; the paper has been reformatted and introduction expanded; ideas remain unchanged

R2 v1 2026-06-23T12:48:34.930Z