Nine and ten lonely runners
Combinatorics
2026-04-21 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Number Theory
Abstract
The Lonely Runner Conjecture of Wills and Cusick states that if runners start running at distinct constant speeds around a unit-length circular track, then for each runner there is a time when he/she is at least away from all other runners. Rosenfeld recently obtained a computer-assisted proof of the conjecture for runners. By refining his approach with a sieve, we obtain proofs (also computer-assisted) for and runners.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.22427,
title = {Nine and ten lonely runners},
author = {Tanupat Trakulthongchai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22427},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Updated theorem numbering to match with journal version; added references