An elementary proof that random Fibonacci sequences grow exponentially

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2006.01.002MaRDI QIDQ863329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eran Makover, Jeffrey McGowan

Publication date 26 January 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510159

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Special sequences (11K31)

Abstract: We consider random Fibonacci sequences given by $$. Viswanath (cite{viswanath}), following Furstenberg (cite{furst}) showed that when $$, $li{m}_{noinfty}|x_n{|}^{1/n}=\mathrm{1.13...}$, but his proof involves the use of floating point computer calculations. We give a completely elementary proof that $1.25577ge(E(|x_n|){)}^{1/n}ge1.12095$ where $E(|x_n|)$ is the expected value for the absolute value of the $n$th term in a random Fibonacci sequence. We compute this expected value using recurrence relations which bound the sum of all possible $n$th terms for such sequences. In addition, we give upper an lower

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