On the denominators of harmonic numbers. IV

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{L}$ be the set of all positive integers $n$ such that the denominator of $1+1/2+\cdots +1/n$ is less than the least common multiple of $1, 2, \dots , n$. In this paper, under a certain assumption on linear independence, we prove that the set $\mathcal{L}$ has the upper asymptotic density $1$. The assumption follows from Schanuel’s conjecture.

Keywords

• harmonic numbers
• least common multiples
• upper asymptotic density