Two classes of modular $p$-Stanley sequences
Abstract
Consider a set with no -term arithmetic progressions for prime. The -Stanley sequence of a set is generated by greedily adding successive integers that do not create a -term arithmetic progression. For prime, we give two distinct constructions for -Stanley sequences which have a regular structure and satisfy certain conditions in order to be modular -Stanley sequences, a set of particularly nice sequences defined by Moy and Rolnick which always have a regular structure. Odlyzko and Stanley conjectured that the 3-Stanley sequence generated by only has a regular structure if or . For we find a substantially larger class of integers such that the -Stanley sequence generated from is a modular -Stanley sequence and numerical evidence given by Moy and Rolnick suggests that these are the only for which the -Stanley sequence generated by is a modular -Stanley sequence. Our second class is a generalization of a construction of Rolnick for and is thematically similar to the analogous construction by Rolnick.
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@article{arxiv.1506.07941,
title = {Two classes of modular $p$-Stanley sequences},
author = {Mehtaab Sawhney and Jonathan Tidor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07941},
year = {2017}
}
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10 pages