On the average growth of random Fibonacci sequences.
We propose two conjectures which imply the Collatz conjecture. We give a numerical evidence for the second conjecture.
We show a connection between a recent conjecture of Shallit and an older conjecture of Rauzy for infinite words on a finite alphabet. More precisely we show that a Rauzy-like conjecture is equivalent to Shallit's. In passing we correct a misprint in Rauzy's conjecture.
For a finite abelian group G and a splitting field K of G, let (G,K) denote the largest integer l ∈ ℕ for which there is a sequence over G such that for all . If (G) denotes the Davenport constant of G, then there is the straightforward inequality (G) - 1 ≤ (G,K). Equality holds for a variety of groups, and a conjecture of W. Gao et al. states that equality holds for all groups. We offer further groups for which equality holds, but we also give the first examples of groups G for which (G) -...