Rolnick's character-range conjecture for independent Stanley sequences

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Let S(A)=(an)S(A)=(a_n) be an independent Stanley sequence: there are constants λ=λ(A)\lambda=\lambda(A) and κ=κ(A)\kappa=\kappa(A) such that for all k≥κk\ge\kappa and 0≤i<2k0\le i<2^k, a2k+i=a2k+aia_{2^k+i}=a_{2^k}+a_i and a2k=2a2k−1−λ+1a_{2^k}=2a_{2^k-1}-\lambda+1. The constant λ\lambda is called the character of S(A)S(A). Rolnick's character-range conjecture. The range of the character function is exactly the set of nonnegative integers not in {1,3,5,9,11,15}\{1,3,5,9,11,15\}. The conjecture concerns which characters occur among independent Stanley sequences; the source reports constructions for every character up to 7575 except the six listed values and gives no resolution.

References

Primary source

Richard Moy, Mehtaab Sawhney and David Stoner, “Characters of Independent Stanley Sequences”, arXiv:1708.01849 (2017).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1706.05444.

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