The eventual terminal-3 conjecture for saturation sequences

For each positive integer dd, let (α1,,αed1)(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_{e_d-1}) be the saturation sequence of the rational normal curve of degree dd. Terminal-3 conjecture. For every positive integer ss, there exists an integer NsN_s such that, for all dNsd\geqslant N_s, at least the last ss entries of the saturation sequence are equal to 33:

αeds=αeds+1==αed1=3.\alpha_{e_d-s}=\alpha_{e_d-s+1}=\cdots=\alpha_{e_d-1}=3.

The paper proves this phenomenon for s8s\leqslant8 by explicit determinant calculations, but the assertion for arbitrary positive integers ss remains open.

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Jaydeep Chipalkatti, “On the saturation sequence of the rational normal curve”, arXiv:0910.0298 (2009).

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