A251556 Conjectured values of n which are the minimal cycle representatives of finite cycles in the permutation of the natural numbers defined by A098550.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 17, 24, 40, 42, 50, 86, 107

Offset

1,2

Comments

At present we do not know for certain that 11, 29, 36, etc. are really missing, since the status of the cycle containing 11 is not known. It appears to be infinite (see A241412).

For other values that are known to be in the sequence see the Havermann link.

A251411 is a subsequence.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..15.

Hans Havermann, Loops and unresolved chains for map n -> A098550(n) trajectories

David L. Applegate, Hans Havermann, Bob Selcoe, Vladimir Shevelev, N. J. A. Sloane, and Reinhard Zumkeller, The Yellowstone Permutation, arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01669, 2015 and J. Int. Seq. 18 (2015) 15.6.7.

Crossrefs

Cf. A098550, A251411, A251412.

Sequence in context: A107818 A039952 A129978 * A200446 A033079 A173819

Adjacent sequences: A251553 A251554 A251555 * A251557 A251558 A251559

Keyword

nonn

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 23 2014

Status

approved