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(n−g(n−1)−cf)+dfg(n)=f(n−f(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.

References

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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