Peak location law for the perturbed Hofstadter recursion

Let F(m)F(m) be the frequency sequence and let

Bk={2k,,2k+11}.B_k=\{2^k,\dots,2^{k+1}-1\}.

For each block, let mkm_k be an index at which F(m)F(m) attains its maximum. Peak location law. The peak locations satisfy

mk=432k+O(1).m_k=\frac{4}{3}2^k+O(1).

Numerical experiments suggest this geometric scaling, but the statement is not established in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Marco Mantovanelli, “A Dyadic Frequency Law for a Perturbed Hofstadter Q-Recursion”, arXiv:2603.16111 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2407.03309.

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