Conjecture on the decreasing quotient sequence of factorial minimality indices

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Let n1,n2,n3,n_1,n_2,n_3,\ldots be the sequence defined by σn=+1\sigma_{n_\ell}=\ell+1 for all 1\ell\geq 1, where the values of σn\sigma_n arise from the paper's preceding construction. Quotient-sequence conjecture. The sequence

n2n1,n3n2,n4n3,\frac{n_2}{n_1},\frac{n_3}{n_2},\frac{n_4}{n_3},\ldots

of quotients is strictly decreasing and

limini+1ni=e2.\lim_{i\longrightarrow\infty}\frac{n_{i+1}}{n_i}=e^2.

The observed initial quotients suggest this limiting pattern, while the preceding corollary only establishes the lower bound ni+1/ni3n_{i+1}/n_i\geq 3; the monotonicity and limiting value remain conjectural in the source.

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Primary source

David E. Radford, “Factorials and powers, a minimality result, revisited”, arXiv:2106.02109 (2021).

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