Solutions with infinite support bases of a functional equation arising from multiplication of quantum integers

Lan Nguyen
Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, ISSN 1310–5132
Volume 20, 2014, Number 3, Pages 1–28
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Lan Nguyen
Mathematics Department, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States

Abstract

It follows from our previous works and those of Nathanson that if P is a set of primes, then the greater the cardinality of P, the less likely that there exists a sequence of polynomials, satisfying the functional equation arising from multiplication of quantum integers studied by Nathanson, which has P as its support base and which cannot be generated by quantum integers. In this paper we analyze the set of roots of the polynomials involved leading to a direct construction of a polynomial solution Γ which has infinite support base P and which cannot be generated by quantum integers. Our results demonstrate that there are more to these solutions than those provided by quantum integers. In addition, we also show that a result of Nathanson does not hold if the condition t_Γ = 1 is removed.

Keywords

• Diophantine equation
• Quantum integer
• q-series
  Sumset
• Polynomial functional equation
• Cyclotomic polynomial

AMS Classification

• 11P99
• 11C08

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