Mathematics > Number Theory
[Submitted on 8 May 2018 (v1), last revised 27 Jul 2020 (this version, v2)]
Title:New methods to find patches of invisible integer lattice points
View PDFAbstract:It is a surprising fact that the proportion of integer lattice points visible from the origin is exactly $\frac{6}{\pi^2}$, or approximately 60 percent. Hence, approximately 40 percent of the integer lattice is hidden from the origin. Since 1971, many have studied a variety of problems involving lattice point visibility, in particular, searching for patterns in that 40 percent of the lattice comprised of invisible points. One such pattern is a square patch, an $n \times n$ grid of $n^2$ invisible points, which we call a hidden forest. It is known that there exist arbitrarily large hidden forests in the integer lattice. However, the methods up to now involve the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) on the rows and columns of matrices with prime number entries, and they have only been able to locate hidden forests very far from the origin. For example, using this method the closest known $4 \times 4$ hidden forest is over 3 quintillion, or $3 \times 10^{18}$, units away from the origin. We introduce the concept of quasiprime matrices and utilize a variety of computational and theoretical techniques to find some of the closest known hidden forests to this date. Using these new techniques, we find a $4 \times 4$ hidden forest that is merely 184 million units away from the origin. We conjecture that every hidden forest can be found via the CRT-algorithm on a quasiprime matrix.
Submission history
From: Aba Mbirika [view email][v1] Tue, 8 May 2018 17:38:37 UTC (180 KB)
[v2] Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:13:42 UTC (304 KB)
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