[seqfan] Re: Earn $500 for the OEIS

[Heinz, Alois]

Dear Seq Fans,

from Doron Zeilberger's web page:

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimhtml/detconj.html

    "Added Jan. 9, 2014: I posted this in the arxiv and got quite a few
    attempted proofs, that unfortunately turned out to be wrong. Not
    surprisingly. I `lied' when I said that "it came up in an
    enumeration problem". The conjectured explicit determinant
    evaluation is a disguised form of "one half" of the notorious
    Collatz problem, i.e. that there are no finite orbits.
    Congratulations to those people who figured it out, including Robin
    Chapman, who kindly permitted me to post his proof of equivalence."

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimhtml/RobinChapmanNote.pdf


Best regards, Alois

Am 12.01.2014 00:17, schrieb Neil Sloane:
> Dear Seq Fans,
>
> Omar Pol noticed this article by Doron Zeilberger:
>
> A Conjectured Explicit Determinant Evaluation Whose Proof Would Make Me
> Happy (and the OEIS richer)
> http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.1532.pdf
>
> Neil
>
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