{ "id": "1612.04548", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-12-14T09:24:26.000Z", "updated": "2016-12-14T09:24:26.000Z", "title": "Sums of Fractions and Finiteness of Monodromy", "authors": [ "Eknath Ghate", "T. N. Venkataramana" ], "comment": "23 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We solve an elementary number theory problem on sums of fractional parts, using methods from group theory. We apply our result to deduce the finiteness of certain monodromy representations.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-12-14T09:24:26.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "33C65" ], "keywords": [ "finiteness", "elementary number theory problem", "monodromy representations", "group theory", "fractional parts" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 23, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }