scientific article; zbMATH DE number 179306

DOI10.1080/00150517.1993.12429297MaRDI QIDQ4039258zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 23 January 1994

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17919

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Lehmer sequence generalized Lucas sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

Set \(k=r-1\) and let \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) be the roots of \(x^ 2-Px+Q=0\), the associated auxiliary equation of the recurrence relation \(u_ n=Pu_{n-1}- Qu_{n-2}\), \(n\geq 2\), with initial conditions \(u_ 0=1\) and \(u_ 1=P\). Following \textit{L. Carlitz} [Fibonacci Q. 3, 81-89 (1965; Zbl 0125.282)], the authors define and study the sequences of numbers \(f_ n^{(r)}= (\alpha^{nk+k}- \beta^{nk+k})/(\alpha^ k- \beta^ k)\) and \(g_ n^{(r)}= (\alpha^{n+k}- \beta^{n+k})/ (\alpha^ k- \beta^ k)\), which are not necessarily integers. Among other results, they establish that \[ f_ n^{(r)}= \sum_{0\leq m+s\leq n} {m \choose s} {{n-m} \choose s} u^{m-2}_{k-2} u^{2s}_{k-1} u_ k^{n-m-s} p^ m. \]

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