Upper and Lower Bounds for a Function Related to Brown's Lemma

Integers ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayri Ardal
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Fixed Positive Integer ◽  
Positive Integers

AbstractThe well-known Brown's lemma says that for every finite coloring of the positive integers, there exist a fixed positive integer

scholarly journals COUNTING THE NUMBER OF SOLUTIONS TO THE ERDŐS–STRAUS EQUATION ON UNIT FRACTIONS

2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN ELSHOLTZ ◽  
TERENCE TAO
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Diophantine Equation ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Number Of Solutions ◽  
Waring’S Problem ◽  
Unit Fractions ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Positive Integers

AbstractFor any positive integer $n$, let $f(n)$ denote the number of solutions to the Diophantine equation $$\begin{eqnarray*}\frac{4}{n} = \frac{1}{x} + \frac{1}{y} + \frac{1}{z}\end{eqnarray*}$$ with $x, y, z$ positive integers. The Erdős–Straus conjecture asserts that $f(n)\gt 0$ for every $n\geq 2$. In this paper we obtain a number of upper and lower bounds for $f(n)$ or $f(p)$ for typical values of natural numbers $n$ and primes $p$. For instance, we establish that $$\begin{eqnarray*}N\hspace{0.167em} {\mathop{\log }\nolimits }^{2} N\ll \displaystyle \sum _{p\leq N}f(p)\ll N\hspace{0.167em} {\mathop{\log }\nolimits }^{2} N\log \log N.\end{eqnarray*}$$ These upper and lower bounds show that a typical prime has a small number of solutions to the Erdős–Straus Diophantine equation; small, when compared with other additive problems, like Waring’s problem.

scholarly journals A Turán Type Problem Concerning the Powers of the Degrees of a Graph

10.37236/1525 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yair Caro ◽  
Raphael Yuster
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Exact Results ◽  
Type Problem ◽  
Maximum Value ◽  
Turán Number

For a graph $G$ whose degree sequence is $d_{1},\ldots ,d_{n}$, and for a positive integer $p$, let $e_{p}(G)=\sum_{i=1}^{n}d_{i}^{p}$. For a fixed graph $H$, let $t_{p}(n,H)$ denote the maximum value of $e_{p}(G)$ taken over all graphs with $n$ vertices that do not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Clearly, $t_{1}(n,H)$ is twice the Turán number of $H$. In this paper we consider the case $p>1$. For some graphs $H$ we obtain exact results, for some others we can obtain asymptotically tight upper and lower bounds, and many interesting cases remain open.

scholarly journals Further results on a generalization of Bertrand's postulate

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
George Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Bertrand’S Postulate

Letd(k)be defined as the least positive integernfor whichpn+1<2pn−k. In this paper we will show that fork≥286664, thend(k)<k/(logk−2.531)and fork≥2, thenk(1−1/logk)/logk<d(k). Furthermore, forksufficiently large we establish upper and lower bounds ford(k).

A Note on the Multi-Colored Bipartite Ramsey Number for Paths

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150041
Author(s):  
Hanxiao Qiao ◽  
Ke Wang ◽  
Suonan Renqian ◽  
Renqingcuo
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Number Formula

For bipartite graphs [Formula: see text], the bipartite Ramsey number [Formula: see text] is the least positive integer [Formula: see text] so that any coloring of the edges of [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] colors will result in a copy of [Formula: see text] in the [Formula: see text]th color for some [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we get the exact value of [Formula: see text], and obtain the upper and lower bounds of [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] denotes a path with [Formula: see text] vertices.

A Combinatorial Theorem

1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-516
Author(s):  
Paul G. Bassett
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Combinatorial Theorem ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Fixed Positive Integer ◽  
Positive Integers

Let n be an arbitrary but fixed positive integer. Let Tn be the set of all monotone - increasing n-tuples of positive integers:1Define2In this note we prove that ϕ is a 1–1 mapping from Tn onto {1, 2, 3,…}.

scholarly journals Monochromatic arithmetic progressions with large differences

1999 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Tom C. Brown ◽  
Bruce M. Landman
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Arithmetic Progression ◽  
Constant Function ◽  
Arithmetic Progressions ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds

A generalisation of the van der Waerden numbers w(k, r) is considered. For a function f: Z+ → R+ define w(f, k, r) to be the least positive integer (if it exists) such that for every r-coloring of [1, w(f, k, r)] there is a monochromatic arithmetic progression {a + id: 0 ≤ i ≤ k −1} such that d ≥ f(a). Upper and lower bounds are given for w(f, 3, 2). For k > 3 or r > 2, particular functions f are given such that w(f, k, r) does not exist. More results are obtained for the case in which f is a constant function.

scholarly journals On numbers n dividing the nth term of a linear recurrence

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan José Alba González ◽  
Florian Luca ◽  
Carl Pomerance ◽  
Igor E. Shparlinski
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Linear Recurrence ◽  
Recurrent Sequence ◽  
Positive Integers

AbstractWe give upper and lower bounds on the count of positive integers n ≤ x dividing the nth term of a non-degenerate linearly recurrent sequence with simple roots.

scholarly journals On the generalized Ramanujan-Nagell equation $ x^2+(2k-1)^y = k^z $ with $ k\equiv 3 $ (mod 4)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 10596-10601
Author(s):  
Yahui Yu ◽  
◽  
Jiayuan Hu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Unsolved Problem ◽  
Integer Solution ◽  
Positive Integer Solution ◽  
Elementary Methods ◽  
Fixed Positive Integer ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Terai’S Conjecture ◽  
Positive Integers

<abstract><p>Let $ k $ be a fixed positive integer with $ k &gt; 1 $. In 2014, N. Terai <sup>[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b6">6</xref>]</sup> conjectured that the equation $ x^2+(2k-1)^y = k^z $ has only the positive integer solution $ (x, y, z) = (k-1, 1, 2) $. This is still an unsolved problem as yet. For any positive integer $ n $, let $ Q(n) $ denote the squarefree part of $ n $. In this paper, using some elementary methods, we prove that if $ k\equiv 3 $ (mod 4) and $ Q(k-1)\ge 2.11 $ log $ k $, then the equation has only the positive integer solution $ (x, y, z) = (k-1, 1, 2) $. It can thus be seen that Terai's conjecture is true for almost all positive integers $ k $ with $ k\equiv 3 $(mod 4).</p></abstract>

scholarly journals GENERALIZED CONTINUED FRACTION EXPANSIONS WITH CONSTANT PARTIAL DENOMINATORS

2018 ◽  
Vol 107 (02) ◽  
pp. 272-288
Author(s):  
TOPI TÖRMÄ
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Real Number ◽  
Continued Fraction ◽  
Positive Real Number ◽  
Rational Numbers ◽  
Positive Real ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Fixed Positive Integer ◽  
Continued Fraction Expansions ◽  
Positive Integers

We study generalized continued fraction expansions of the form $$\begin{eqnarray}\frac{a_{1}}{N}\frac{}{+}\frac{a_{2}}{N}\frac{}{+}\frac{a_{3}}{N}\frac{}{+}\frac{}{\cdots },\end{eqnarray}$$ where $N$ is a fixed positive integer and the partial numerators $a_{i}$ are positive integers for all $i$ . We call these expansions $\operatorname{dn}_{N}$ expansions and show that every positive real number has infinitely many $\operatorname{dn}_{N}$ expansions for each $N$ . In particular, we study the $\operatorname{dn}_{N}$ expansions of rational numbers and quadratic irrationals. Finally, we show that every positive real number has, for each $N$ , a $\operatorname{dn}_{N}$ expansion with bounded partial numerators.

scholarly journals SHIFTED AND SHIFTLESS PARTITION IDENTITIES II

2007 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 43-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANK G. GARVAN ◽  
HAMZA YESILYURT
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Theta Function ◽  
Computer Search ◽  
Modular Functions ◽  
Partition Identities ◽  
Partition Identity ◽  
Function Identity ◽  
Theta Function Identity ◽  
Fixed Positive Integer ◽  
Positive Integers

Let S and T be sets of positive integers and let a be a fixed positive integer. An a-shifted partition identity has the form [Formula: see text] Here p(S,n) is the number partitions of n whose parts are elements of S. For all known nontrivial shifted partition identities, the sets S and T are unions of arithmetic progressions modulo M for some M. In 1987, Andrews found two 1-shifted examples (M = 32, 40) and asked whether there were any more. In 1989, Kalvade responded with a further six. In 2000, the first author found 59 new 1-shifted identities using a computer search and showed how these could be proved using the theory of modular functions. Modular transformation of certain shifted identities leads to shiftless partition identities. Again let a be a fixed positive integer, and S, T be distinct sets of positive integers. A shiftless partition identity has the form [Formula: see text] In this paper, we show, except in one case, how all known 1-shifted and shiftless identities follow from a four-parameter theta-function identity due to Jacobi. New shifted and shiftless partition identities are proved.

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