A Note on Lacunary Lonely Runners
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We give a simple argument proving the lonely runner conjecture in the case where the speed of the runners forms a certain lacunary sequence. This improves an earlier result by Pandey, and is then used to derive that for each number of runners the lonely runner conjecture is true for a set of nonzero measure in a natural probability space.
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