19-25 June 2011
Bled, Slovenia
Europe/Ljubljana timezone
Arithmetic derivative and its graph
Presented by Mr. Jurij KOVIC
Type: Oral presentation
Track: General session
Content
Arithmetic derivative is the function in
number theory, sending each prime into 1 and satisfying the
Leibniz rule $D(ab) = D(a)b + aD(b)$ for any $a,b$.
The corresponding dynamical system: $n \rightarrow D(n)$ has two
obvious attractors: $0$ and $\infty$. One of the major conjectures
about arithmetic derivative is that the corresponding directed
graph, whose vertices correspond to nonnegative integers and whose
arcs connect a number $n$ with its derivative $D(n)$ contains no
cycles except the loops in fixed points $p^{p}$, where $p$ is any
prime.
The purpose of the talk is i) to give a brief review of what is
known or conjectured about arithmetic derivative, ii) to define
some related new concepts and iii) to present some new results.
Place
Location: Bled, Slovenia
Address: Best Western Hotel Kompas Bled