Periodicity and Thue–Morse structure of the sequences associated with and
Periodicity and Thue–Morse structure of the sequences associated with and
Let and be the sets of nonnegative integers satisfying, respectively, and , where is the Thue–Morse sequence. Let and list these sets in increasing order, and let and be the binary sequences obtained by recording whether the listed integers are odious or evil. An integer is evil if its binary expansion contains an even number of 's and odious if it contains an odd number of 's.
Periodicity conjecture. The sequence is periodic. If , then its minimal period has terms. If is evil, this period consists of the first terms of the Thue–Morse sequence ; otherwise, it consists of the first terms of . Moreover, .
The claim describes a precise periodic structure for the solutions of the two complementary Thue–Morse equations and gives an explicit relation between their parity-coded enumerations. The supplied text does not indicate whether the conjecture has been resolved.
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Vladimir Shevelev, “Equations of the form t(x+a)=t(x) and t(x+a)=1-t(x) for Thue-Morse sequence”, arXiv:0907.0880 (2012).
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