The binary-prefix characterization of as a generalized eigenvalue of LCM and GCD matrices
The binary-prefix characterization of as a generalized eigenvalue of LCM and GCD matrices
Let with . Write and for the LCM and GCD matrices indexed by , respectively, and call a g-eigenvalue of to when it is a generalized eigenvalue of the pair. Binary-prefix conjecture. The number is a g-eigenvalue of to if and only if the binary representation of begins with . This conjecture is motivated by computer experiments for and matches the description of OEIS sequence A004754, after omitting its first term; a proof of the asserted characterization is not supplied here.
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Jorma K. Merikoski, Pentti Haukkanen, Antonio Sasaki and Timo Tossavainen, “On generalized eigenvalues of MAX matrices to MIN matrices and of LCM matrices to GCD matrices”, arXiv:2601.16626 (2026).
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