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

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 23 2014

Keywords

• nonn

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

• 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.