Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4594948 Journal of Number Theory 2009 20 Pages PDF
Abstract

M. Filaseta, K. Ford, S. Konyagin, C. Pomerance and G. Yu proved that if the reciprocal sum of the moduli of a covering system is bounded, then the least modulus is also bounded, which confirms a conjecture of P. Erdős and J.L. Selfridge. They also showed that, for K>1, the complement in Z of any union of residue classes with distinct n∈(N,KN] has density at least dK for N sufficiently large, which implies a conjecture of P. Erdős and R.L. Graham. In this paper, we extend these results to covering systems of the ring of integers of an arbitrary number field F/Q.

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