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Simultaneous Niven Numbers in Arithmetic Progressions for Power-Related Bases

Number Theory 2026-02-03 v1

Abstract

Recently, Harrington, Litman, and Wong [Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2024; arXiv:2303.06534] proved that every arithmetic progression contains infinitely many base-bb Niven numbers, for any fixed b2b\ge 2. We use a sparse repunit construction to treat a structured two-base version of the same problem, showing that every arithmetic progression with common difference relatively prime to bb contains infinitely many integers that are simultaneously bb-Niven and bkb^k-Niven (indeed, we can obtain simultaneous bb^\ell-Niven-ness for =1,,k\ell=1,\ldots, k).

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@article{arxiv.2602.01252,
  title  = {Simultaneous Niven Numbers in Arithmetic Progressions for Power-Related Bases},
  author = {Scott Duke Kominers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01252},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages

R2 v1 2026-07-01T09:30:15.396Z