Sequences of consecutive factoradic happy numbers

DOI10.1216/RMJ.2020.50.1241MaRDI QIDQ2204743zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joshua Carlson, Eva G. Goedhart, Pamela E. Harris

Publication date 16 October 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02044, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1601344823

zbMATH Keywords

factorial representationhappy numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Normal numbers, radix expansions, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, good lattice points, etc. (11K16)

Abstract: Given a positive integer $n$, the factorial base representation of $n$ is given by $n=su{m}_{i=1}^k{a}_{i}cdoti!$, where $a_{k}eq0$ and $0leq{a}_{i}leqi$ for all $1leqileqk$. For $egeq1$, we define $S_{e,!}:mathbb{Z}_{geq0}omathbb{Z}_{geq0}$ by $S_{e,!}(0)=0$ and $S_{e,!}(n)=su{m}_{i=0}^n{a}_i^e$, for $neq0$. For $ellgeq0$, we let $S_{e,!}^{e}ll(n)$ denote the $ell$-th iteration of $S_{e,!}$, while $S_{e,!}^0(n)=n$. If $pinmathbb{Z}^{+}$ satisfies $S_{e,!}(p)=p$, then we say that $p$ is an $e$-power factoradic fixed point of $S_{e,!}$. Moreover, given $xinmathbb{Z}^{+}$, if $p$ is an $e$-power factoradic fixed point and if there exists $ellinmathbb{Z}_{geq0}$ such that $S_{e,!}^{e}ll(x)=p$, then we say that $x$ is an $e$-power factoradic $p$-happy number. Note an integer $n$ is said to be an $e$-power factoradic happy number if it is an $e$-power factoradic $1$-happy number. In this paper, we prove that all positive integers are $1$-power factoradic happy and, for $2leqeleq4$, we prove the existence of arbitrarily long sequences of $e$-power factoradic $p$-happy numbers. A curious result establishes that for any $egeq2$ the $e$-power factoradic fixed points of $S_{e,!}$ that are greater than $1$, always appear in sets of consecutive pairs. Our last contribution, provides the smallest sequences of $m$ consecutive $e$-power factoradic happy numbers for $2leqeleq5$, for some values of $m$.

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