The periodicity and unboundedness conjecture for shifted Hankel determinant sequences
Let be a positive integer and let denote the th term of the Hankel determinant sequence shifted by . Consider shifts with .
The case . The sequence is -periodic when is even and -antiperiodic, hence -periodic, when is odd, and its terms belong only to , except when , when they belong only to . All sequences with are unbounded.
The statement extends the known periodicity results for shifts through . It is proved for part (1) when , while the general case remains open.
References
Primary source
Guo-Niu Han and Emmanuel Pedon, “Hankel continued fractions and Hankel determinants for q-deformed metallic numbers”, arXiv:2502.05993 (2026).
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