A generating function technique for Beatty sequences and other step sequences

DOI10.1006/jnth.2001.2743zbMath1044.11009MaRDI QIDQ700198

Kevin O'Bryant

Publication date: 30 September 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jnth.2001.2743

zbMATH Keywords

generating function; Lambert series; Beatty sequence; Fraenkel conjecture; complementary sequence; Farey fraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

05A15: Exact enumeration problems, generating functions

05A17: Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers

11M06: (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi))

11B75: Other combinatorial number theory

11B83: Special sequences and polynomials

11M35: Hurwitz and Lerch zeta functions

11B34: Representation functions

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