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arxiv: 1109.1442 · v1 · pith:BG2YFOUInew · submitted 2011-09-07 · 🧮 math.NT

On the elementary symmetric functions of 1, 1/2, ldots , 1/n

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In 1946, P. Erd\H os and I. Niven proved that there are only finitely many positive integers $n$ for which one or more elementary symmetric functions of $1, 1/2, \ldots , 1/n$ are integers. In this paper we solve this old problem by showing that if $n\ge 4$, then none of elementary symmetric functions of $1, 1/2, \ldots , 1/n$ is an integer.

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