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arxiv: math/0409535 · v2 · submitted 2004-09-27 · 🧮 math.NT · math.CO

In search of Robbins stability

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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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