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Farey sequence and Graham's conjectures

Number Theory 2020-12-22 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let Fn{F}_{n} be the Farey sequence of order nn. For SFnS \subseteq {F}_n we let Q(S)={x/y:x,yS,xyandy0}\mathcal{Q}(S) = \left\{x/y:x,y\in S, x\le y \, \, \textrm{and} \, \, y\neq 0\right\}. We show that if Q(S)Fn\mathcal{Q}(S)\subseteq F_n, then Sn+1|S|\leq n+1. Moreover, we prove that in any of the following cases: (1) Q(S)=Fn\mathcal{Q}(S)=F_n; (2) Q(S)Fn\mathcal{Q}(S)\subseteq F_n and S=n+1|S|=n+1, we must have S={0,1,12,,1n}S = \left\{0,1,\frac{1}{2},\ldots,\frac{1}{n}\right\} or S={0,1,1n,,n1n}S=\left\{0,1,\frac{1}{n},\ldots,\frac{n-1}{n}\right\} except for n=4n=4, where we have an additional set {0,1,12,13,23}\{0, 1, \frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{3}, \frac{2}{3}\} for the second case. Our results are based on Graham's GCD conjectures, which have been proved by Balasubramanian and Soundararajan.

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@article{arxiv.2005.04429,
  title  = {Farey sequence and Graham's conjectures},
  author = {Liuquan Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.04429},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages

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