The asymptotic growth conjecture for Golomb-like systems

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Let cfc_f, dfd_f, cgc_g, and dgd_g be integers with df+dg>0d_f+d_g>0, and consider the Golomb-like system

{f(n)=g(ng(n1)cf)+dfg(n)=f(nf(n)cg)+dg.\begin{cases} f(n)=g(n-g(n-1)-c_f)+d_f\\ g(n)=f(n-f(n)-c_g)+d_g. \end{cases}

Asymptotic growth conjecture. Any solution to this system grows asymptotically like

(df+dg)n.\sqrt{\left(d_f+d_g\right)n}.

This conjecture proposes a common asymptotic growth rate for all solutions of these nested recurrences, generalizing the analogous conjectured behavior of Golomb's recurrence. The source provides no evidence that it has been resolved.

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Primary source

Altug Alkan, Nathan Fox, Orhan Ozgur Aybar and Zehra Akdeniz, “On Some Solutions to Hofstadter's V-Recurrence”, arXiv:2002.03396 (2020).

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