Linear recurrence sequences.

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This article gives a survey on recent developments in the theory of linear recurrence sequences. In the first 4 sections basic algebraic facts are collected. In particular a convenient notation using generating functions is developed. Section 5 is devoted to Gourins's theorem, and section 6 discusses Hadamard products and Hadamard's quotient theorem. In section 7 several results concerning zero-multiplicities are stated, in particular the Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem, section 8 contains a proof of M. Laurent's extension. Section 9 gives a refinement using a specialization argument and section 10 is devoted to Zannier's method of using derivations. The final sections of the paper are devoted mostly to obtaining bounds for the number of solutions of polynomial-exponential equations. The results are mainly proved by ingenious applications of the subspace theorem. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1015.00016].




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