AP abnormality for Cantor series normal numbers

Let Q=(qn)n1Q=(q_n)_{n\geq 1} be a basic sequence that is infinite in limit and fully divergent of type I. A real number is QQ-normal if it belongs to N(Q)\mathscr{N}(Q), and is AP QQ-abnormal if it does not belong to any of the sets Nk,k,rI(Q)\mathscr{N}^{I}_{k,k,r}(Q) for k2k\geq 2 and 0rk10\leq r\leq k-1. AP abnormality conjecture. There exists such a sequence QQ and a real number xx such that

xN(Q)\k=2r=0k1Nk,k,rI(Q).x\in\mathscr{N}(Q)\backslash\bigcup_{k=2}^{\infty}\bigcup_{r=0}^{k-1}\mathscr{N}^{I}_{k,k,r}(Q).

This predicts that ordinary QQ-normality need not imply normality along every arithmetic progression. The paper presents it as a likely example of the distinction between these notions, but gives no proof.

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Brian Li and Bill Mance, “Number theoretic applications of a class of Cantor series fractal functions, II”, arXiv:1310.2379 (2014).

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