Postnikov's 2-adic valuation conjecture for Morse link and Catalan numbers

Let LnL_n be the Morse link numbers, let CnC_n be the Catalan numbers, let s2(n)s_2(n) denote the sum of the binary digits of nn, and let ξ2\xi_2 denote the 2-adic valuation. Let α=0101112\alpha=\dotsc 010111_2 be a 2-adic integer.

Postnikov's 2-adic valuation conjecture. There exists such a 2-adic integer α\alpha satisfying

ξ2(LnCn)=s2(n)+ξ2(nα)+2\xi_2(L_n-C_n)=s_2(n)+\xi_2(n-\alpha)+2

for all n2n\geq 2.

This is attributed to Postnikov and is introduced among conjectures about 2-adic valuations of sequences related to LnL_n; no resolution is supplied in the excerpt.

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Yibo Gao and Andrew Gu, “Arithmetic of weighted Catalan numbers”, arXiv:1908.03914 (2019).

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