Hollander's conjecture on regular numeration languages and dominant-root limits
Hollander's conjecture on regular numeration languages and dominant-root limits
Let be the recurrence sequence defining the numeration system, let be its numeration language, and let be the minimal polynomial of the recurrence relation satisfied by . A sequence is regular when its numeration language has the regularity property considered in the paper.
Hollander's conjecture. If is regular, there exists such that the limit
exists and is independent of . Furthermore, the minimal polynomial is of the form
where is the minimal polynomial for a recurrence that gives rise to a regular language.
This conjecture, attributed to Hollander, relates regularity of a numeration language to the asymptotic behavior of the defining recurrence and to the structure of its minimal polynomial. The supplied material does not state whether it has been proved or disproved.
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Primary source
Émilie Charlier and Savinien Kreczman, “Numeration systems without a dominant root and regularity”, arXiv:2512.13180 (2025).
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