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The Thue-Morse sequence in base 3/2

Combinatorics 2023-02-01 v1

Abstract

We discuss the base 3/2 representation of the natural numbers. We prove that the sum of digits function of the representation is a fixed point of a 2-block substitution on an infinite alphabet, and that this implies that sum of digits function modulo 2 of the representation is a fixed point x3/2x_{3/2} of a 2-block substitution on {0,1}\{0,1\}. We prove that x3/2x_{3/2} is mirror invariant, and present a list of conjectured properties of x3/2x_{3/2}, which we think will be hard to prove. Finally, we make a comparison with a variant of the base 3/2 representation, and give a general result on pp-qq-block substitutions.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.13563,
  title  = {The Thue-Morse sequence in base 3/2},
  author = {Michel Dekking},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13563},
  year   = {2023}
}
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