Proof of Bala's totient-period conjectures: OEIS A258899 and A258903, COMMENTS (3 and 8 August 2025)
The conjectures in Peter Bala's COMMENTS of 3 August 2025 in OEIS A258899 and 8 August 2025 in A258903 are proved: modulo every positive integer m, each sequence is eventually periodic with least eventual period dividing Euler's totient phi(m). The explicit sufficient onset is 2*m+4. A weighted divisor-factorial tail identity also proves the constant-tail conjecture in A121860 (COMMENTS, 8 August 2025), and gives the Carmichael exponent as an eventual period for all integer weights.
Authors
- Wenlin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2414-7968)
- Haobo Ma
Institutions
- National University of Singapore (SG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23971255
- Primary Topic
- Analytic Number Theory Research
- Type
- preprint