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A Cogent Argument that Supports the Conjecture of Keane in Kolakoski Sequence A000002

1Département de Mathématiques, Faculté des sciences, Université Moulay Ismaïl, 50020 Meknès, Morocco


Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory. 2019, Vol. 7 No. 2, 37-40
DOI: 10.12691/tjant-7-2-2
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Abdallah Hammam. A Cogent Argument that Supports the Conjecture of Keane in Kolakoski Sequence A000002. Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory. 2019; 7(2):37-40. doi: 10.12691/tjant-7-2-2.

Correspondence to: Abdallah  Hammam, Département de Mathématiques, Faculté des sciences, Université Moulay Ismaïl, 50020 Meknès, Morocco. Email: a.hammam@fs.umi.ac.ma

Abstract

The aim of our investigation is an attempt to answer two still unsolved questions about Kolakoski sequence (Kn)n≥1: Is there an explicit expression of the nth term Kn, and the second one, known as the conjecture of Keane, claims that the asymptotic density of twos, is In the first section of this paper, we present a new formula for Kn according to K1, K2, …Kp where In the second part, we define three sequences satisfying the condition UiVi=Wi, and using the fact that (Vi) increases at least exponentially while (Wi) does not, we conclude that (Ui) should converge to zero. Our argument is inductive but so strong to insure the validity of the conjecture in concern with density of twos.

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