On arithmetic progressions in recurrences -- a new characterization of the Fibonacci sequence (Q423613)
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On arithmetic progressions in recurrences -- a new characterization of the Fibonacci sequence (English)
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4 June 2012
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The authors give a striking new characterization of the Fibonacci sequence, by showing that it is essentially the unique binary recurrence containing infinitely many three-term arithmetic progressions. In the proofs several deep methods and results are combined, including a theorem of Evertse, Schlickewei and Schmidt on linear equations over finitely generated groups, and results of Schinzel concerning reducibility of trinomials.
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recurrence sequences
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three-term arithmetic progressions
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Fibonacci sequence
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subspace theorem
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