A348190 Positive integers where each is chosen to be the second smallest number subject to the condition that no three terms a(j), a(j+k), a(j+2*k) (for any j and k) form an arithmetic progression.

2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 5, 3, 4, 3, 5, 5, 7, 5, 2, 4, 2, 2, 5, 4, 6, 3, 2, 9, 5, 9, 3, 6, 10, 9, 9, 6, 5, 7, 4, 12, 11, 11, 2, 6, 4, 8, 3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 11, 5, 5, 6, 4, 8, 10, 9, 13, 4, 13, 4, 6, 6, 2, 11, 5, 4, 6, 11, 18, 9, 15, 2, 15, 12

Offset: 1

Author

Albert Böschow, Oct 06 2021

Keywords

• nonn
• look

Comments

The sequence seems to behave in a similar way as the "forest fire" A229037. The graph (up to n=5000) looks like it has a fractal structure, with each dense "pillar" approximately double the size of the previous one.

The terms of this sequence do not seem to be larger (on average) than those of A229037, despite the construction of this sequence.

Examples

			a(7) = 4, because 2 would form an arithmetic progression with a(1) = 2 and a(4) = 2 and 3 would form an arithmetic progression with a(5) = 3 and a(6) = 3. Therefore, 4 is the second smallest number which satisfies the condition (1 being the smallest).
		

Links

• Neal Gersh Tolunsky, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..8000
• Rémy Sigrist, PARI program for A348190
• Neal Gersh Tolunsky, Scatterplot for n=1...8000

Crossrefs

Cf. A229037.

Programs

PARI

See Links section.