Call a sequence of positive integers good if for any distinct positive integers , one has
Call a positive integer to be -good if there exists a good sequence such that . Does there exists a such that there are exactly -good positive integers?
Problem 1839
Official solution
To determine if there exists a such that there are exactly 2019 -good positive integers, we first need to understand the properties of a good sequence . A sequence is defined as good if for any distinct positive integers and , the following conditions hold:
We describe all good sequences as those satisfying:
for every integer . This implies that for any prime and integer , the only constraint is:
To verify this, we consider the following steps:
1. For , , and , we get:
This implies:
This is almost the left half of the constraint, except for where it is off by one.
2. To prove the constraint for any prime and index , we choose . This ensures:
Thus, we have:
and
This confirms the constraint.
Finally, we check if there exists a such that there are exactly 2019 -good positive integers. For each prime , there are choices for . It is straightforward to verify that this number is never divisible by 3, so the product of such numbers cannot equal 2019.
Therefore, the answer is no. There does not exist a such that there are exactly 2019 -good positive integers.
The answer is: \boxed{\text{no}}.