Expand the finite Euler product into geometric series. By unique prime factorization, it is the sum of over positive integers whose prime factors do not exceed , and hence contains every term up to . The harmonic sum satisfies
The last inequality uses , including when is an integer. For each prime number ,
The telescoping series over all integers bounds the sum of these remainders by . Taking logarithms of the product bound therefore gives
This explicit constant suffices; no asymptotic theorem about the distribution of prime numbers is needed.
For , the principal value of complex exponentiation is , where the principal complex logarithm is with . De Moivre's theorem states that for every integer .
Since , the six roots are
Write and . The field embeddings of into send to , so the field trace is
For the trace pairing , the basis therefore has dual basis
Every element of is an algebraic integer. If and , then is an algebraic integer and its trace is an integer. Thus belongs to the trace-dual lattice of , which is generated over by the displayed dual basis. Since , every such linear combination lies in . Hence
Let
Assume for a contradiction that is rational. For every , both and
are integers, because the are integers. Their positive difference
must therefore be a positive integer.
On the other hand, concavity of for gives . Since ,
Eventually , contradicting its integrality. Hence
The integrality assumption is essential. For example, take , , and
Then , but the exponential series gives
Thus the result does not remain true for arbitrary real .
Let and let be the balanced indicator function, extended by zero to the integers. For finitely supported functions define the linear configuration count
Since has no nonconstant three-term arithmetic progression, . On the other hand, . Hence, once is sufficiently large in terms of ,
for an absolute .
Use the unnormalized Fourier transform on . Telescoping writes the preceding difference as
Let . The Fourier-integral formula for , followed by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the Parseval identity, bounds these three terms respectively by
They are all at most , so
for an absolute . Choose with .
By the Dirichlet approximation theorem, some integer satisfies . Choose a sufficiently small absolute multiple of . Partition each residue-class progression of common difference into progressions whose lengths lie between and ; for sufficiently large , short final pieces can be joined to the preceding piece. On each , the linear phase varies by at most . Choosing small enough compared with therefore yields
The sums over all cells add to , so their positive parts total half their absolute values. At least one consequently satisfies
This is the Roth density-increment step, and it gives
with and depending only on .
Let the known phase gate on the answer register be
where the comparison uses ordinary integers, not modular arithmetic. A reversible circuit computes the predicate, applies a Pauli Z gate to its flag, then performs uncomputation.
The compute-phase-uncompute construction now gives
Use modular-oracle inversion by negation to realize the last operation with one further query. Exactly two oracle queries implement , returning the answer register and comparison workspace to their initial states.
A reduced positive definite binary quadratic form satisfies
with when or . Its discriminant of a binary quadratic form is . The first displayed inequality already gives , while gives
Taking the positive square root yields
Moreover, , so . For fixed negative , the displayed bounds leave only finitely many possible integers and , and then is uniquely determined. Hence only finitely many reduced forms have discriminant .
For , the bound gives , so . The modular congruence condition makes odd. If , then and ; the boundary convention retains . If , then and ; the boundary convention retains . Thus the complete list is
Assume for contradiction that with positive integers . Define
and
The coefficient of in is
Consequently every derivative is an integer: it is zero unless , and in that range the factor clears the denominator. Since , every is also an integer.
Repeated integration by parts, ending when derivatives above degree vanish, gives
Thus is an integer. It is strictly positive because for .
On the other hand, , so
The factorial-over-power series implies that the right-hand side tends to zero. For all sufficiently large this says that the positive integer is less than one, a contradiction. Therefore the Irrationality of pi is established:
Since is not a root, is a nonzero integer, and hence
Moreover implies . Applying part (i) to , , and using gives
Rearrangement proves
This is the core estimate behind the Liouville approximation theorem.
Let
The tail satisfies
For every fixed positive integer , this is smaller than for all sufficiently large .
The binary expansion has digits at factorial positions and arbitrarily long blocks of zeros, but it is neither eventually zero nor eventually periodic. Since a rational number has an eventually periodic binary expansion, is irrational. If it were an algebraic number of degree , part (b), or equivalently the Liouville approximation theorem, would give a fixed positive multiple of as a lower bound for all rational approximations. The fractions violate that bound. Thus is a transcendental number.
For each place of a number field , let be the corresponding completion, and for finite let be its valuation ring. The adele ring is the restricted product
Its restricted product topology has basic open sets , where every is open and at all but finitely many finite places.
First take . The neighborhood
of zero meets the diagonal copy of only in zero: a rational number lying in every is an integer, and the only integer in the indicated real interval is zero. Thus is discrete in .
Every rational adele is congruent modulo to an element of
Indeed, the finitely many negative -adic principal parts can be removed simultaneously by subtracting a rational number, using the Chinese remainder theorem; subtracting an integer then moves the real component into . This set is compact by the compactness of , the compactness of every , and the Tychonoff theorem. Its image covers the quotient, so is compact.
Now choose a -basis of the number field . The given topological isomorphism
identifies the additive pair with . A finite product of discrete subgroups is discrete, and
is compact.
The idele group is
where the distinguished subgroup at a finite place is . It carries the corresponding restricted product topology on the idele group. The inclusion is continuous: the inverse image of a basic adelic open set is locally a product of open subsets of , and outside finitely many places every idele component already belongs to .
It is not a homeomorphism onto its image. Let be the th rational prime and define the idele to equal at the place over and everywhere else. In the adele topology, : the difference is zero at every fixed place once is large, while at the single moving place. In the idele topology the sequence does not converge to , because the open neighborhood
contains no : its -component has positive valuation and is not a unit. Hence the inverse of on its image is not continuous.
Write every element as with . The action of this element on is multiplication by . A direct check of the four possibilities for the two exponents of shows
so is a crossed homomorphism and hence a one-cocycle.
It cannot be principal: if for some , then at one would have
which is impossible in the integers. Thus and
False. Join, at one common endpoint , a line segment of length for every positive integer , and use the intrinsic path metric. This is a real tree. It is totally bounded, because outside the first finitely many arms every point lies arbitrarily close to , and it is complete; hence it is compact. Removing leaves one connected component for every arm, so has countably infinite multiplicity of a point in a real tree.
The Snake lemma associates to a commutative diagram with exact rows an exact sequence
For , apply it degree by degree to the short exact sequence of chain complexes
The resulting connecting maps splice the kernels modulo boundaries into the Mayer--Vietoris sequence
Now let satisfy the stated simplicial pseudomanifold conditions. In an -cycle, cancellation at a common -face determines the coefficient of either incident -simplex from the other, up to the orientation sign. Connectivity through such faces therefore determines every top-simplex coefficient from one integer. If the signs are globally compatible, their oriented sum is a cycle and generates ; if they are inconsistent, that integer must be zero and .
Let be the resulting fundamental class, represented by . Since the intersection has dimension below , split uniquely
into top chains in and . Then
and the Mayer--Vietoris boundary is
It is nonzero exactly when both and contain top-dimensional simplices; if one side contains none, the fundamental cycle already lies in the other side, while if both do, connectedness forces a nonempty interface and its oriented boundary represents a nonzero class.
Finally take , , and
. The preceding boundary
is a nonzero map between copies of and sends the fundamental class to the oriented boundary torus, hence is an isomorphism. Exactness then gives
The next part of the sequence is
Since , it follows that
. The degree-zero sequence makes connected. Therefore
False. The integers form a Noetherian ring, since every ideal is principal, but this ring is not an Artinian ring: the strictly descending chain
never stabilizes.
Put
For every nonzero integer ,
Let
These are disjoint nonempty subsets of . If , then
so . Similarly, if , then
so .
The ping-pong lemma now identifies the subgroup generated by and with
Both generators have infinite order, so this is a free group of rank two inside the special linear group .
The extension of the one-dimensional freely jointed chain is
As the integer runs from to , the possible extensions are therefore
For fixed and , choosing which of the links point in the positive direction determines the microstate. The state degeneracy is consequently the binomial coefficient
The Fermat-Euler theorem gives
so the multiplicative order exists. For every integer ,
Thus the modular exponential is periodic with period . If were a smaller period, then would give , contradicting the minimality of . Hence is its least positive period.
Write the Chebyshev theta function as
Taking natural logarithms in part a gives
and hence
Because , the right-hand side is at least for every sufficiently large integer .
Now let be sufficiently large and set using the floor function. Then and , so the monotonicity of gives
Suppose that the positive integer is a decisive number. For every prime number , the composite number satisfies . It therefore cannot be coprime to , so .
The product of all prime numbers below consequently divides . Taking natural logarithms gives
Changing the strict endpoint can remove at most one prime term. By part b, for every sufficiently large the right-hand side is at least, for example, . This is impossible for sufficiently large , since
Thus every decisive number lies below one fixed bound, and only finitely many integers can do so.