Conjectured properties of the Hankel determinants of the Prouhet–Thue–Morse sequence

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Let p,n∈Np,n\in\mathbb{N}, and let

hp,n=[cp+i+j−1]1≤i,j≤n,h_{p,n}=[c_{p+i+j-1}]_{1\leq i,j\leq n},

where c{\bf c} is the sequence considered in the paper. Define the Hankel determinant sequence by

Hp,n:=det⁡hp,n.H_{p,n}:=\operatorname{det}h_{p,n}.

Conjectured properties of the Hankel determinants. The following properties hold:

  1. For each p,n∈Np,n\in\mathbb{N}, Hp,n∈{−1,0,1}H_{p,n}\in\{-1,0,1\}.
  2. We have
H0,n={1,n=13(4m−1)for some m≥2;−1,n∈{23(4m−1)+1,23(4m−1)+1,43(4m−1)+2}for some m≥1;0,otherwise.H_{0,n}=\begin{cases} 1, & n=\frac{1}{3}(4^{m}-1)\quad\text{for some }m\geq 2;\\ -1, & n\in\left\{\frac{2}{3}(4^{m}-1)+1,\frac{2}{3}(4^m-1)+1,\frac{4}{3}(4^m-1)+2\right\}\quad\text{for some }m\geq 1;\\ 0, & \text{otherwise}. \end{cases}
  1. We have
Hn,n={1,n=∑i=1m4ki,where ki<ki+1;0,otherwise.H_{n,n}=\begin{cases} 1, & n=\sum_{i=1}^{m}4^{k_i},\quad\text{where }k_i<k_{i+1};\\ 0, & \text{otherwise}. \end{cases}

These assertions concern the arithmetic structure of Hankel determinants associated with the sequence c{\bf c}; the paper presents them as based on numerical computations, so their general validity remains open.

References

Primary source

Maciej Gawro and Maciej Ulas, “On formal inverse of the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence”, arXiv:1601.04840 (2016).

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