Twin-period recurrence conjecture for reversible elementary cellular automaton 115

Let reversible elementary second-order cellular automaton 115 (RESOCA 115) have finite configurations with periods. Two periods pp and p+3p+3 are called twins.

Twin-period recurrence conjecture. Assume that pp and p+3p+3 are twin periods. Then the next twin pair is pp' and p+3p'+3, where

p=2p+93(1)p2.p'=2p+\frac{9-3(-1)^p}{2}.

This conjecture proposes a recurrence for the experimentally observed twin periods of finite configurations of RESOCA 115; the source states that the authors do not know whether all periods are twins and presents the recurrence as a pattern suggested by experiments.

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Enrico Formenti and Supreeti Kamylia, “The Curious Case of Reversible Elementary Second Order Cellular Automaton 115”, arXiv:2606.13159 (2026).

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