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The monoid of numbers of the form 1 < a^q /b^p < a

Laurent Fallot
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This paper is a study of the set of rational numbers of the form 1 < a^q /b^p < a with a and b co-prime integers. The set F (a,b) of these numbers, with an appropriate binary law, is a monoid isomorphic to (N, +, 0). We identify the sequences of minimum and maximum record holders in F (a,b) and prove that the first one converges to 1 while the second one converges to a. We conclude that F (a,b) is dense in the set of the real numbers comprise between 1 and a.

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Laurent Fallot. 2023-12-26. The monoid of numbers of the form 1 < a^q /b^p < a. https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06248

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