Gaussian happy numbers

DOI10.1216/RMJ.2022.52.415MaRDI QIDQ2152803zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Breeanne Baker Swart, Susan Crook, H. G. Grundman, L. L. Hall-Seelig

Publication date 11 July 2022

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00560, https://projecteuclid.org/journals/rocky-mountain-journal-of-mathematics/volume-52/issue-2/Gaussian-happy-numbers/10.1216/rmj.2022.52.415.full

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian integershappy numbersdigital functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Other number representations (11A67)

Abstract: This paper extends the concept of a $B$-happy number, for $Bgeq2$, from the rational integers, $mathbbZ$, to the Gaussian integers, $mathbbZ[i]$. We investigate the fixed points and cycles of the Gaussian $B$-happy functions, determining them for small values of $B$ and providing a method for computing them for any $Bgeq2$. We discuss heights of Gaussian $B$-happy numbers, proving results concerning the smallest Gaussian $B$-happy numbers of certain heights. Finally, we prove conditions for the existence and non-existence of arbitrarily long arithmetic sequences of Gaussian $B$-happy numbers.

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