Shevelev's main-increment conjecture for the dual sequence

Let c~(n)\tilde{c}(n) be the sequence defined by

c~(1)=2,c~(n)=c~(n1)+{gcd(n,c~(n1)),if n is odd,gcd(n2,c~(n1)),if n is even,n2.\tilde{c}(1)=2,\qquad \tilde{c}(n)=\tilde{c}(n-1)+\begin{cases}\gcd(n,\tilde{c}(n-1)),&\text{if }n\text{ is odd},\gcd(n-2,\tilde{c}(n-1)),&\text{if }n\text{ is even},\end{cases}\quad n\geq2.

An increment is called main if it occurs at one of the distinguished fundamental points described in the paper. Shevelev's main-increment conjecture. For n16n\geq16, the main and only main increments are the record differences c~(n)c~(n1)\tilde{c}(n)-\tilde{c}(n-1). The conjecture concerns the identification of the main increments with record differences in this sequence; the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Vladimir Shevelev, “Theorems on twin primes-dual case”, arXiv:0912.4006 (2014).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0911.5478.

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