Baruchel's conjecture on the zeroth digit in base-phi representations

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Let NN be a natural number with unique base-φ\varphi representation, where φ=(1+5)/2\varphi=(1+\sqrt{5})/2 and the digits di(N)d_i(N) are either 00 or 11, with no two consecutive digits equal to 11. The notation ⌊⋅⌋\lfloor\cdot\rfloor denotes the floor function.

Baruchel's conjecture. The digit d0(N)=1d_0(N)=1 if and only if

N=⌊nφ⌋+2n+1N=\lfloor n\varphi\rfloor+2n+1

for some natural number nn, or N=1N=1.

This conjecture gives a precise description of the natural numbers whose zeroth base-phi digit is 11, refining the known frequency result for this digit. The paper states that it is proved in Section 2.

References

Primary source

Michel Dekking, “Base phi representations and golden mean beta-expansions”, arXiv:1906.08437 (2019).

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