On the Laxton group

DOI10.1007/S40993-019-0152-3zbMATH Open1435.11029arXiv1809.07973OpenAlexW2891035377MaRDI QIDQ2316331FDOQ2316331

Masanari Kida, Miho Aoki

Publication date: 26 July 2019

Published in: Research in Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We redefine a multiplicative group structure on the set of equivalence classes of rational sequences satisfying a fixed linear recurrence of degree two, which was defined by R. R. Laxton in his paper "On groups of linear recurrences I" published in Duke Math. 36, 721--736 (1969). In the article, he also defined some natural subgroups of the group, and determined the structures of their quotient groups. However, he did not study the whole group itself. Nothing has been known about the structure of Laxton's whole group and its interpretation. The aims of this paper are to redefine Laxton's group in a natural way and determine the structure of the whole group itself, which clarifies Laxton's results on the quotient groups. According to our formulation by algebraic number theory method, we can simplify the proof of Laxton's results. Our definition also gives a natural interpretation of Laxton's results, and makes us possible to use the group to show various properties of such sequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07973

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zbMATH Keywords

quadratic fieldslinear recurrence sequencesLaxton groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recurrences (11B37) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Quadratic extensions (11R11)

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