Covering intervals with arithmetic progressions

Authors

P. Balister, University of MemphisFollow
B. Bollobás, University of MemphisFollow
R. Morris, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura E Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro
J. Sahasrabudhe, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura E Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro
M. Tiba, Faculty of Mathematics

Abstract

In this short note we give a simple proof of a 1962 conjecture of Erdős, first proved in 1969 by Crittenden and Vanden Eynden, and note two corollaries.

Publication Title

Acta Mathematica Hungarica

Recommended Citation

Balister, P., Bollobás, B., Morris, R., Sahasrabudhe, J., & Tiba, M. (2020). Covering intervals with arithmetic progressions. Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 161 (1), 197-200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-019-00980-z