Oscillation conjecture for recurrence sequences without positive dominating roots
Oscillation conjecture for recurrence sequences without positive dominating roots
Let be a recurrence sequence, and let its dominating characteristic roots be the characteristic roots of maximal modulus among those occurring with nonzero coefficient in its generalized power-sum representation. Oscillation conjecture. If has no real positive dominating characteristic root, then there are infinitely many with and infinitely many with . The conjecture predicts that the absence of a positive real characteristic root of maximal modulus forces a recurrence sequence to change sign infinitely often; the surrounding discussion motivates this through oscillating terms from non-real dominating roots, but the supplied text does not indicate whether the conjecture has been resolved.
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Stefan Gerhold, “Point Lattices and Oscillating Recurrence Sequences”, arXiv:math/0502288 (2005).
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