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On the Elementary Symmetric Functions of $\{1,1/2,\dots,1/n\}\backslash\{1/i\}$
Published 25 Feb 2025 in math.NT | (2502.18267v1)
Abstract: In 1946, P. Erd\H{o}s and I. Niven proved that there are only finitely many positive integers $n$ for which one or more of the elementary symmetric functions of $1,1 / 2$, $\cdots, 1 / n$ are integers. In 2012, Y. Chen and M. Tang proved that if $n \geqslant 4$, then none of the elementary symmetric functions of $1,1 / 2, \cdots, 1 / n$ are integers. In this paper, we prove that if $n \geqslant 5$, then none of the elementary symmetric functions of ${1,1 / 2, \cdots, 1 / n} \backslash{1 / i}$ are integers except for $n=i=2$ and $n=i=4$.
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