A special sequence and primorial numbers
Number Theory
2025-12-08 v5
Abstract
In this paper, we study a class of functions defined recursively on the set of natural numbers in terms of the greatest common divisor algorithm of two numbers and requiring a minimality condition. These functions are permutations, products of infinitely many cycles that depend on certain breaks in the natural numbers involving the primes, and some special products of primes with a density of approximately . We show that these functions split into only two equivalence classes (modulo the natural equivalence relation of eventually identical maps): one is the class of the identity map and the other is generated by a map whose discrete derivative is almost periodic with ``periods" the primorial numbers.
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@article{arxiv.2302.02838,
title = {A special sequence and primorial numbers},
author = {Amit Kumar Basistha and Eugen J. Ionascu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02838},
year = {2025}
}
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18 pages and 4 figures