OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Number of points of period n in the simplest nontrivial disconnected S-integer dynamical system.
This sequence comes from the simplest disconnected S-integer system that is not hyperbolic. In the terminology of the papers referred to, it is constructed by choosing the under- lying field to be F_2(t), the element to be t and the nontrivial valuation to correspond to the polynomial 1+t. Since it counts periodic points, it satisfies the nontrivial congruence sum_{d|n}mu(d)a(n/d) = 0 mod n for all n and since it comes from a group automorphism it is a divisibility sequence.
LINKS
R. Brown and J. L. Merzel, The number of Ducci sequences with a given period, Fib. Quart., 45 (2007), 115-121.
Vijay Chothi, Periodic Points in S-integer dynamical systems, PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, 1996.
Vijay Chothi, Graham Everest, Thomas Ward, S-integer dynamical systems: periodic points, J. Reine Angew Math. 489 (1997), 99-132.
Y. Puri and T. Ward, Arithmetic and growth of periodic orbits, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 4 (2001), #01.2.1.
T. Ward, Almost all S-integer dynamical systems have many periodic points, Ergodic Th. Dynam. Sys. 18 (1998), 471-486.
EXAMPLE
a(24) = 2^16 = 65536 because ord_2(24)=3, so 24-2^ord_2(24)=16.
MAPLE
readlib(ifactors): for n from 1 to 100 do if n mod 2 = 1 then ord2 := 0 else ord2 := ifactors(n)[2][1][2] fi: printf(`%d, `, 2^(n-2^ord2)) od:
MATHEMATICA
ord2[n_?OddQ] = 0; ord2[n_?EvenQ] := FactorInteger[n][[1, 2]]; a[n_] := 2^(n-2^ord2[n]); a /@ Range[34]
(* Jean-François Alcover, May 19 2011, after Maple prog. *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Thomas Ward, Mar 08 2001
EXTENSIONS
More terms from James A. Sellers, Mar 15 2001
STATUS
approved