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Proof of D. J. Newman's coprime mapping conjecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Carl Pomerance and
J. L. Selfridge
Carl Pomerance
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 and University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602.
J. L. Selfridge
Affiliation:
Mathematical Reviews, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois 60115
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In this paper we prove

Theorem 1. If N is a natural number and I is an interval of N consecutive integers, then there is a 1–1 correspondencef: {1, 2,…, N} → I such that (i, f(i)) = 1 for 1 ≤ i ≤ N.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , June 1980, pp. 69 - 83
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Copyright © University College London 1980

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