B Can the Lonely Runner Conjecture apply to circular tracks of any diameter?

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With the lonely runner conjecture, can the runners run along a circular track of any diameter or does the conjecture require that they run along a unit circle?
 
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The track does not have to be a circle, and, although the standard formulation has the track of unit length, it can be scaled to any length track.
 
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Some remarks on the lonely runner conjecture
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The lonely runner conjecture of Wills and Cusick, in its most popular formulation, asserts that if n runners with distinct constant speeds run around a unit circle ##\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}## starting at a common time and place, then each runner will at some time be separated by a distance of at least ##1/(n+1)## from the others. In this paper we make some remarks on this conjecture.
 
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