Forbidden integer ratios of consecutive power sums
Number Theory
2017-01-10 v1
Abstract
Let denote a power sum. In 2011 Bernd Kellner formulated the conjecture that for the ratio of two consecutive power sums is never an integer. We will develop some techniques that allow one to exclude many integers as a ratio and combine them to exclude the integers and, assuming a conjecture on irregular primes to be true, a set of density of ratios . To exclude a ratio one has to show that the Erd\H{o}s-Moser type equation has no non-trivial solutions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.06064,
title = {Forbidden integer ratios of consecutive power sums},
author = {Ioulia N. Baoulina and Pieter Moree},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06064},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
28 pages, 3 tables; accepted for publication in the book "From Arithmetic to Zeta-Functions - Number Theory in Memory of Wolfgang Schwarz"