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Main Author: Weisenberg, Desmond
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12310
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author Weisenberg, Desmond
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contents Erdős and Graham asked whether any sparse enough admissible set of natural numbers can be translated into a subset of the primes. By using a greedy construction involving powers of primitive roots, we prove that there exist arbitrarily sparse infinite admissible sets that cannot be translated into a subset of the primes, thus answering this question in the negative. We present three additional constructions as well.
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spellingShingle Sparse Admissible Sets and a Problem of Erdős and Graham
Weisenberg, Desmond
Number Theory
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Erdős and Graham asked whether any sparse enough admissible set of natural numbers can be translated into a subset of the primes. By using a greedy construction involving powers of primitive roots, we prove that there exist arbitrarily sparse infinite admissible sets that cannot be translated into a subset of the primes, thus answering this question in the negative. We present three additional constructions as well.
title Sparse Admissible Sets and a Problem of Erdős and Graham
topic Number Theory
11B05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12310