Two-line approximation conjecture for queens in exile

Let ScS_c be the row containing the exiled queen in column cc, and let ϕ=(1+5)/2\phi=(1+\sqrt{5})/2 be the golden ratio. Two-line approximation conjecture. There are constants ϵ1\epsilon_1 and ϵ2\epsilon_2 such that

Sccϕ<ϵ1if Sc>c,|S_c-c\phi|<\epsilon_1\quad\text{if }S_c>c,

and

Sccϕ<ϵ2if Sc<c.\left|S_c-\frac{c}{\phi}\right|<\epsilon_2\quad\text{if }S_c<c.

Numerical computations show that the queen positions remain within bounded distance of two lines of slopes ϕ\phi and 1/ϕ1/\phi, but the paper does not establish the existence of such uniform bounds.

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F. Michel Dekking, Jeffrey Shallit and N. J. A. Sloane, “Queens in exile: non-attacking queens on infinite chess boards”, arXiv:1907.09120 (2019).

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