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In search of Robbins stability

Kiran S. Kedlaya, James G. Propp

math.NTarXiv:math/0409535

Abstract

We speculate on whether a certain p-adic stability phenomenon, observed by David Robbins empirically for Dodgson condensation, appears in other nonlinear recurrence relations that "unexpectedly" produce integer or nearly-integer sequences. We exhibit an example (number friezes) where this phenomenon provably occurs.

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