The elementary symmetric functions of a reciprocal polynomial sequence |
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Authors: | Yuanyuan Luo Shaofang Hong Guoyou Qian Chunlin Wang |
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Institution: | 1. Mathematical College, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR China;2. Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, PR China |
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Abstract: | Erdös and Niven proved in 1946 that for any positive integers m and d, there are at most finitely many integers n for which at least one of the elementary symmetric functions of 1/m,1/(m+d),…,1/(m+(n−1)d) are integers. Recently, Wang and Hong refined this result by showing that if n?4, then none of the elementary symmetric functions of 1/m,1/(m+d),…,1/(m+(n−1)d) is an integer for any positive integers m and d. Let f be a polynomial of degree at least 2 and of nonnegative integer coefficients. In this paper, we show that none of the elementary symmetric functions of 1/f(1),1/f(2),…,1/f(n) is an integer except for f(x)=xm with m?2 being an integer and n=1. |
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