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.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-05
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23971255
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Analytic Number Theory Research
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Proof of Bala's totient-period conjectures: OEIS A258899 and A258903, COMMENTS (3 and 8 August 2025)

Wenlin Zhang, Haobo Ma
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Analytic Number Theory Research
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Proof of Bala's totient-period conjectures: OEIS A258899 and A258903, COMMENTS (3 and 8 August 2025)

Wenlin Zhang, Haobo Ma
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Abstract

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.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
National University of Singapore (SG)
Analytic Number Theory Research
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