Postnikov's 5-adic valuation conjecture for Morse link numbers

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Let LnL_n denote the Morse link numbers, and let ξ5\xi_5 denote the 5-adic valuation. Let α=…1111111205\alpha=\dotsc 111111120_5 be a 5-adic integer.

Postnikov's 5-adic valuation conjecture. For n≥4n\geq 4,

ξ5(Ln)={2if n is even,ξ5(n−α)+3if n is odd.\xi_5(L_n)= \begin{cases} 2 & \text{if } n \text{ is even},\\ \xi_5(n-\alpha)+3 & \text{if } n \text{ is odd}. \end{cases}

This is attributed to Postnikov; the source notes that the original formulation contains typographical errors, but supplies no resolution of the corrected statement.

References

Primary source

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

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