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This paper studies the maximal size of product-free sets in Z/nZ. These are sets of residues for which there is no solution to ab == c (mod n) with a,b,c in the set. In a previous paper we constructed an infinite sequence of integers…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Par Kurlberg , Jeffrey C. Lagarias , Carl Pomerance

We consider sets of positive integers containing no sum of two elements in the set and also no product of two elements. We show that the upper density of such a set is strictly smaller than 1/2 and that this is best possible. Further, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Par Kurlberg , Jeffrey C. Lagarias , Carl Pomerance

Let A be a pre-defined set of rational numbers. We say a set of natural numbers S is an A-quotient-free set if no ratio of two elements in S belongs to A. We find the maximal asymptotic density and the maximal upper asymptotic density of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Tanya Khovanova , Sergei Konyagin

We prove that product-free sets of the free group over a finite alphabet have maximum density $1/2$ with respect to the natural measure that assigns total weight one to each set of irreducible words of a given size. This confirms a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Miquel Ortega , Juanjo Rué , Oriol Serra

In this paper we study asymptotic density of rational sets in free abelian group $\mathbb{Z}^n$ of rank $n$. We show that any rational set $R$ in $\mathbb{Z}^n$ has asymptotic density. If $R$ is given by its semi-simple decomposition we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Anton Menshov

We consider the Diophantine equation $$ a!b! = c! $$ due to Erd\H{o}s, where we assume $a \leq b$. It is widely believed that there are only finitely many nontrivial solutions, and considerable work has been dedicated to showing this. In…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Joshua Cooper , Joseph Preuss

In this paper, we study product-free subsets of the free semigroup over a finite alphabet $A$. We prove that the maximum density of a product-free subset of the free semigroup over $A$, with respect to the natural measure that assigns a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Imre Leader , Shoham Letzter , Bhargav Narayanan , Mark Walters

Let G be a finitely generated group with a given word metric. The asymptotic density of elements in G that have a particular property P is defined to be the limit, as r goes to infinity, of the proportion of elements in the ball of radius r…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pallavi Dani

Let $\mathrm{d}(A)$ be the asymptotic density (if it exists) of a sequence of integers $A$. For any real numbers $0\leq\alpha\leq\beta\leq 1$, we solve the question of the existence of a sequence $A$ of positive integers such that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Pierre-Yves Bienvenu , François Hennecart

In this article, we study the properties of $\psi$-amicable numbers. We prove that their asymptotic density relative to the positive integers is zero. We also propose generalizations of $\psi$-amicable numbers.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-06 S. I. Dimitrov

We obtain quantitative estimates for the asymptotic density of subsets of the two-dimensional integer lattice which contain only trivial solutions to an additive equation involving binary forms. In the process we develop an analogue of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Sean Prendiville

For any group G of order n, a subset A of G is said to be product-free if there is no solution of the equation ab=c with a,b,c in A. Previous results of Gowers showed that the size of any product-free subset of G is at most n/d^(1/3), where…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-04-07 Kiran S. Kedlaya , Xuancheng Shao

{The first version of this text was written and submitted to a journal on April, 12, 2018. This second version was submitted on April, 9, 2019.} We investigate the existence of subsets $A$ and $B$ of $\mathbb{N}:=\{0,1,2,\dots\}$ such that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Alain Faisant , Georges Grekos , Ram Krishna Pandey , Sai Teja Somu

We determine the asymptotic density $\delta_k$ of the set of ordered $k$-tuples $(n_1,...,n_k)\in \N^k, k\ge 2$, such that there exists no prime power $p^a$, $a\ge 1$, appearing in the canonical factorization of each $n_i$, $1\le i\le k$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 László Tóth

Given two sets of natural numbers $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ of natural density $1$ we prove that their product set $\mathcal{A}\cdot \mathcal{B}:=\{ab:a\in\mathcal{A},\,b\in\mathcal{B}\}$ also has natural density $1$. On the other…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Sandro Bettin , Dimitris Koukoulopoulos , Carlo Sanna

In this paper we study the asymptotic probability that a random system of equations in free abelian group $\mathbb{Z}^m$ of rank $m$ is solvable. Denote $SAT(\mathbb{Z}^m, k, n)$ and $SAT_{\mathbb{Q}^m}(\mathbb{Z}^m, k, n)$ the sets of all…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Anton Menshov

The paper shows that the asymptotic density of solutions of Diophantine equations or systems of the natural numbers is 0. The author provides estimation methods and estimates number, density and probability of k- tuples $<x_1,...x_k>$ to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Victor Volfson

We adapt the construction of subsets of {1, 2, ..., N} that contain no k-term arithmetic progressions to give a relatively thick subset of an arbitrary set of N integers. Particular examples include a thick subset of {1, 4, 9, ..., N^2}…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Kevin O'Bryant

In this paper, we initiate the systematic study of density of algebraic points on surfaces. We give an effective asymptotic range in which the density degree set has regular behavior dictated by the index. By contrast, in small degree, the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jennifer Berg , Yu Fu , Evangelia Gazaki , Morena Porzio , James Rawson , Isabel Vogt

Let $\{U_n\}_{n \geq 0}$ and $\{V_m\}_{m \geq 0}$ be two linear recurrence sequences. We establish an asymptotic formula for the number of integers $c$ in the range $[-x, x]$ which can be represented as differences $ U_n - V_m$. In…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Robert Tichy , Ingrid Vukusic , Daodao Yang , Volker Ziegler
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