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On a Conjecture about Ron Graham's Sequence

Number Theory 2024-10-15 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Ron Graham's Sequence is a surprising bijection from non-negative integers to non-negative, non-prime integers that was introduced by Ron Graham in the June 1986 "Problems" column of Mathematics Magazine\textit{Mathematics Magazine}, and which later appeared in Problem A2 of the 2013 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. We describe some properties of this function, give an algorithm for computing its values in pseudo-polynomial time, and prove a 22 year-old conjecture about an upper bound for the function.

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@article{arxiv.2410.04728,
  title  = {On a Conjecture about Ron Graham's Sequence},
  author = {Peter Kagey and Krishna Rajesh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04728},
  year   = {2024}
}

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10 pages

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