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Is it true that $\sum_{k=m}^n\frac{\sigma(k)}k\not\in\mathbb Z$ for all derangements $\sigma\in S_n$ and $1\le m\le n$?
Let $S_n$ be the symmetric group of all the permutations of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$.
Recall that a permutation $\sigma\in S_n$ is called a derangemnt if $\sigma(k)\not=k$ for all $k=1,\ldots,n$.
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Derangements and unit fractions
Motivated by a recent question of Zhi-Wei Sun and its nice answer by Zhao Shen, here are two related questions.
Let $S_n$ be the group of permutations on $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$.
a. For each $n \ge ...