On Erd\H{o}s covering systems in global function fields
A covering system of the integers is a finite collection of arithmetic progressions whose union is the set of integers. A well-known problem on covering systems is the minimum modulus problem posed by Erd\H{o}s in 1950, who asked whether the minimum modulus in such systems with distinct moduli can b...
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Zusammenfassung: | A covering system of the integers is a finite collection of arithmetic
progressions whose union is the set of integers. A well-known problem on
covering systems is the minimum modulus problem posed by Erd\H{o}s in 1950, who
asked whether the minimum modulus in such systems with distinct moduli can be
arbitrarily large. This problem was resolved by Hough in 2015, who showed that
the minimum modulus is at most $10^{16}$. In 2022, Balister, Bollob\'as,
Morris, Sahasrabudhe and Tiba reduced Hough's bound to $616,000$ by developing
Hough's method. They call it the distortion method. In this paper, by applying
this method, we mainly prove that there does not exist any covering system of
multiplicity $s$ in any global function field of genus $g$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$
for $q\geq (1.14+0.16g)e^{6.5+0.97g}s^2$. In particular, there is no covering
system of $\mathbb{F}_q[x]$ with distinct moduli for $q\geq 759$. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2402.03810 |