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 tΓ = 1 is removed.
Keywords
- Diophantine equation
- Quantum integer
- q-series
Sumset - Polynomial functional equation
- Cyclotomic polynomial
AMS Classification
- 11P99
- 11C08
References
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Nguyen, L. (2014). Solutions with infinite support bases of a functional equation arising from multiplication of quantum integers. Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 20(3), 1-28.