We study the function , where θ is a positive real number, ⌊·⌋ and · are the floor and fractional part functions, respectively. Nathanson proved, among other properties of , that if log θ is rational, then for all but finitely many positive integers n, . We extend this by showing that, without any condition on θ, all but a zero-density set of integers n satisfy . Using a metric result of Schmidt, we show that almost all θ have asymptotically (log θ log x)/12 exceptional n ≤ x. Using continued...
A geometric progression of length k and integer ratio is a set of numbers of the form for some positive real number a and integer r ≥ 2. For each integer k ≥ 3, a greedy algorithm is used to construct a strictly decreasing sequence of positive real numbers with a₁ = 1 such that the set
contains no geometric progression of length k and integer ratio. Moreover, is a maximal subset of (0,1] that contains no geometric progression of length k and integer ratio. It is also proved that there is...
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