Identities involving the tribonacci numbers squared via tiling with combs

MaRDI QIDQ6387679arXivFDO

Authors Michael A. Allen, Kenneth Edwards

Publication date 6 January 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39)

Abstract: The number of ways to tile an $n$-board (an $nimes1$ rectangular board) with $(frac12,frac12;1)$-, $(frac12,frac12;2)$-, and $(frac12,frac12;3)$-combs is $T_{n+2}^2$ where $T_n$ is the $n$th tribonacci number. A $(frac12,frac12;m)$-comb is a tile composed of $m$ sub-tiles of dimensions $frac12imes1$ (with the shorter sides always horizontal) separated by gaps of dimensions $frac12imes1$. We use such tilings to obtain quick combinatorial proofs of identities relating the tribonacci numbers squared to one another, to other combinations of tribonacci numbers, and to the Fibonacci, Narayana's cows, and Padovan numbers. Most of these identities appear to be new.

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