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.
References
Primary source
Arseniy Sheydvasser, “The Ulam Sequence of the Integer Polynomial Ring”, arXiv:1910.00109 (2021).
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