Singmaster’s conjecture in the interior of Pascal’s triangle




Matomäki Kaisa

Russian-Finnish Symposium on Discrete Mathematics

PublisherTurku Centre for Computer Science

Turku

2021

Proceedings of the Sixth Russian-Finnish Symposium on Discrete Mathematics

TUCS Lecture Notes

31

23

23

978-952-12-4113-0

1797-8831

http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-12-4113-0



In 1971, David Singmaster conjectured that any natural number greater than one only appears in Pascal’s triangle a bounded number of times. In the talk I will discuss what is known about this conjecture, concentrating on a recent result in joint work with Maksym Radziwill, Xuancheng Shao, Terence Tao, and Joni Ter¨av¨ainen that establishes the conjecture in the interior region of the triangle. While the problem is combinatorial, we use number theoretic and analytic tools. In particular an important analytic input in our proof is Vinogradov’s estimate for exponential sums over primes



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