The interval decomposition conjecture for Ulam sequences U(1,n)
Let denote the generalized Ulam sequence starting with integers , where each subsequent term is the smallest integer representable as the sum of two distinct preceding terms in exactly one way. For , consider the sequence .
Interval decomposition conjecture. There exist integer coefficients such that, for every integer ,
The conjecture asserts a simple, uniform interval structure for all with , extending the explicitly observed initial patterns; it was confirmed computationally for thousands of terms but is not established in the supplied text.
References
Primary source
Joshua Hinman, Borys Kuca, Alexander Schlesinger and Arseniy Sheydvasser, “The Unreasonable Rigidity of Ulam Sets”, arXiv:1711.00145 (2017).
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