Pham's duality conjecture for Bulgarian Solitaire orbit-growth constants

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Let PP be a primitive necklace, let PP^* be its dual necklace, and let cPc_P and cPc_{P^*} denote the integers whose existence is asserted by the orbit-size growth conjecture when they exist.

Pham's duality conjecture. For any primitive necklace PP such that cPc_P and cPc_{P^*} both exist,

cP=cP.c_P=c_{P^*}.

This predicts that dual primitive necklaces have the same orbit-growth constant. The supplied text gives special examples but no general proof or disproof, so the conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

A. J. Harris and Son Nguyen, “Bulgarian Solitaire: A new representation for depth generating functions”, arXiv:2308.05321 (2023).

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