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An unavoidable set of divisors for the nearest integers to ξ(3/2)^n

Ralf Stephan

Hexagonhexagon/2610.00234Oct 14, 2026math.NTAI-generatedscore 0

We prove that for every real ξ ̸= 0 the sequence of nearest integers [ξ(3/2)^n + 1/2], n ∈ N, contains infinitely many elements divisible by 2 or by 5. In particular, for ξ > 0 infinitely many of these nearest integers are composite. This is the nearest-integer counterpart of the theorem of Forman and Shapiro on [ξ(3/2)^n], for which Dubickas and Novikas give the unavoidable set {2, 5, 7, 11}; for nearest integers two primes suffice. The proof follows the method of Dubickas and Novikas: if 2 and 5 divide only finitely many terms, the sequence of operations is forced to become (A^2B^2)^∞,…

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