Mean-median map stabilization conjecture
Mean-median map stabilization conjecture
Let be a finite non-empty real multiset, and let the mean-median map adjoin so that the arithmetic mean of the enlarged multiset equals the median of the preceding one:
Here and are the median and sum of , respectively, and is the resulting orbit. Mean-median map stabilization conjecture. The mean-median map orbit of every initial set stabilizes. This is a fundamental open question about the long-term behavior of the mean-median map; the source states that it remains open even for initial sets of size three.
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Jonathan Hoseana, “The Akiyama Mean-Median Map Has Unbounded Transit Time and Discontinuous Limit”, arXiv:2106.06953 (2021).
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