Zentralblatt MATH
Publications of (and about) Paul Erdös
Zbl.No: 656.10026
Autor: Erdös, Paul
Title: On the irrationality of certain series: Problems and results. (In English)
Source: New advances in transcendence theory, Proc. Symp., Durham/UK 1986, 102- 109 (1988).
Review: [For the entire collection see Zbl 644.00005.]
The author presents a host of results and problems on the (ir)rationality of many interesting infinite series of rational numbers. For example: it is not known if sumoon = 1\omega(n)2-n or sumoon = 1\phi (n)2-n is irrational, where \omega(n) is the number of distinct prime divisors of n and \phi(n) is Euler's function.
The paper also contains the proof of the following theorem. Let a1 < a2 < ... be an infinite sequence of positive integers. Let c(n) = lcm(ai| ai < n). Then, under certain hypotheses on the growth of the ai, the sum sumoon = 1c(n)-1 is irrational.
Reviewer: F.Beukers
Classif.: * 11J81 Transcendence (general theory)
00A07 Problem books
Keywords: irrationality; rationality; problems; infinite series of rational numbers; number of distinct prime divisors; Euler's function
Citations: Zbl 644.00005
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