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The Energy Method in Addition Chains

Authors: Theophilus Agama

In this note, we introduce the energy method for constructing the length of addition chains leading to $2^n-1$. This method is a generalization of the Brauer method. Using this method, we show that the conjecture is true for all addition chains with ''low'' energy.

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