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Lonely runner conjecture

Category: Mathematics

Status: Queued

If k runners move along a circular track of unit circumference at pairwise distinct constant integer speeds, is each runner at some moment 'lonely' — meaning at distance at least 1/k from all others?

The conjecture is proven for up to seven runners. The general case is unsolved and connects to view-obstruction problems in diophantine approximation.

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