The Hankel determinant periodicity and recurrence conjecture for q-deformed metallic numbers
The Hankel determinant periodicity and recurrence conjecture for q-deformed metallic numbers
Let be a positive integer, and for let
denote the -shifted sequence of Hankel determinants associated with the -deformation of the metallic number .
Hankel determinant periodicity and recurrence conjecture. The sequences take only the values . They are -periodic when is even and -antiperiodic, hence -periodic, when is odd:
Moreover, all these sequences satisfy
For , the consecutive shifted sequences are interconnected by
The conjecture arose from computer experimentation and concerns the simultaneous integrality, periodicity, Somos-type recurrence, and relations among shifted Hankel determinant sequences associated with -deformed metallic numbers. The supplied context does not state whether it has been proved or disproved.
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Valentin Ovsienko and Emmanuel Pedon, “Continued fractions for q-deformed real numbers, \-1,0,1\-Hankel determinants, and Somos-Gale-Robinson sequences”, arXiv:2312.17009 (2024).
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