Gibbs's concentration conjecture for the Ulam sequence U(1,2)
Gibbs's concentration conjecture for the Ulam sequence U(1,2)
Let be the Ulam sequence, and for a positive real number interpret reduction modulo by taking representatives in an interval of length . Gibbs's concentration conjecture. There exists a real number such that for all , for sufficiently large,
The conjecture concerns the apparent concentration of the residues of in the middle third modulo a distinguished real period. It was confirmed computationally for the first trillion terms, but the asymptotic assertion remains open.
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Primary source
Arseniy Sheydvasser, “The Ulam Sequence of the Integer Polynomial Ring”, arXiv:1910.00109 (2021).
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