Wednesday, December 26, 2018

number theory - Arithmetic progression divisibility



Suppose b|a and abvy, a,b,v,yN arbitrary. Is there a nice clean intuitive proof to show that it is never true that b+yk|a+vk for all kN? Or is it true sometimes after all (I strongly feel like not)?


Answer



Assume for contradiction that for all kN, a+vk|b+yk and consider the sequence ukZ such that uk(a+vk)=b+yk. Then since uk=b+yka+vkyv as k goes to +, uk approaches yv arbitrary close, which therefore must be an integer, and thus v|y. Let uZ be such that y=vu. Then for all kN we have a+vk|b+vuk and therefore also a+vk|bau. However since a+vk is unbounded and bau does not depend on k, what follows is that bau=0, which rewrites as ab=vy.



The contrapositive of this is your statement.


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