The negative-alphabet maximal-orbit conjecture for C1,nC_{-1,n}

Let nn be an even integer, possibly nonpositive, and let j>0j>0. Set

v=(n,1).v=(n,-1).

Let tt be either the sequence (1)vj1(-1)v^{j-1} or the sequence vj1nv^{j-1}n; both have length 2j12j-1. The map C1,n(1,)C_{-1,n}(-1,-) is defined using the extension of Cm,nC_{m,n} to distinct integer values of m,nm,n and finite sequences with entries in {m,n}\{m,n\}. Negative-alphabet maximal-orbit conjecture. The orbit of either such sequence tt under C1,n(1,)C_{-1,n}(-1,-) has length 2j2^j. This generalizes the positive-alphabet maximal-orbit conjecture to the case m=1m=-1.

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Bobby Shen, “The Kolakoski sequence and related conjectures about orbits”, arXiv:1702.08156 (2017).

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