The non-overlapping solitons conjecture

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Let pp be a prime and let g1,g2≥2g_1,g_2\geq 2. For each gg, let S(p,g)\mathfrak S(p,g) be the connected collection of cells that starts at pgp^g and contains only powers of pp larger than two. These collections are called ZZ-solitons. Non-overlapping solitons conjecture. Two distinct solitons S(p,g1)\mathfrak S(p,g_1) and S(p,g2)\mathfrak S(p,g_2) neither overlap nor touch each other. The conjecture is verified for p=2p=2 by the complete description of the solitons in that case; it remains open for odd primes, whose solitons have a more complicated structure.

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Cristian Cobeli, Mihai Prunescu and Alexandru Zaharescu, “A growth model based on the arithmetic Z-game”, arXiv:1511.04315 (2015).

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