OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
This sequence can be represented as a binary tree. Each left hand child is produced as A087686(1+n), and each right hand child as A088359(n), when their parent contains n:
|
...................1...................
2 3
4......../ \........5 7......../ \........6
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \ / \ / \
8 9 12 10 15 13 14 11
16 17 21 18 27 22 24 19 31 28 29 23 30 25 26 20
etc.
The level k of the tree contains all numbers of binary width k, like many base-2 related permutations (A003188, A054429, etc). For a proof, see A267110, which gives the contents of each parent node (for node containing n).
A276442 shows the mirror-image of the same tree.
LINKS
Antti Karttunen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..8192
T. Kubo and R. Vakil, On Conway's recursive sequence, Discr. Math. 152 (1996), 225-252.
FORMULA
As a composition of other permutations:
Other identities. For all n >= 0:
a(2^n) = 2^n. [Follows from the properties (3) and (4) of A004001 given on page 227 of Kubo & Vakil paper.]
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AUTHOR
Antti Karttunen, Jan 10 2016
STATUS
approved