Sums of fourth powers of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers

Abstract: We obtain closed-form expressions for all sums of the form mbox{

s u m_{k = 1}^{n} F_{m k}^{4}

} and mbox{

s u m_{k = 1}^{n} L_{m k}^{4}

} and their alternating versions, where

F_{i}

and

L_{i}

denote Fibonacci and Lucas numbers respectively. Our results complement those of Melham who studied the alternating sums.

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