Discriminator conjecture for half-integer quadratic sequences with coefficient ratio divisible by 3
Discriminator conjecture for half-integer quadratic sequences with coefficient ratio divisible by 3
Let and be non-zero integers such that . For a sequence
let denote its discriminator, the least modulus for which the first sequence values are pairwise distinct. The discriminator conjecture. For every such sequence, there exists at least one value of such that
The preceding result rules out the claimed discriminator formula in most cases of half-integer quadratic coefficients; this conjecture concerns the remaining case in which the quadratic coefficient is , with and as represented by the linear coefficient . The authors report that they were unable to find any examples satisfying the formula, but the conjecture remains open.
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Primary source
Sajed Haque, “Quadratic sequences with prime power discriminators”, arXiv:2209.03265 (2022).
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