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DISTANCE BETWEEN ARITHMETIC PROGRESSIONS AND PERFECT SQUARES

Part of: Exponential sums and character sums Sequences and sets Diophantine equations Diophantine approximation, transcendental number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2010

Tsz Ho Chan
Tsz Ho Chan*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, U.S.A. (email: tchan@memphis.edu)
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Abstract

In this paper, we study how close the terms of a finite arithmetic progression can get to a perfect square. The answer depends on the initial term, the common difference and the number of terms in the arithmetic progression.

MSC classification

Secondary: 11J25: Diophantine inequalities 11D75: Diophantine inequalities 11B83: Special sequences and polynomials 11L05: Gauss and Kloosterman sums; generalizations

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 41 - 49
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Copyright © University College London 2011

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