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The lonely runner conjecture holds for nine runners

Discrete Mathematics 2026-01-28 v2 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

We prove that the lonely runner conjecture holds for nine runners. Our proof is based on a couple of improvements of the method we used to prove the conjecture for eight runners.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.01912,
  title  = {The lonely runner conjecture holds for nine runners},
  author = {Matthieu Rosenfeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.01912},
  year   = {2026}
}
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