Complete Padovan sequences in finite fields
Number Theory
2014-06-20 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
Given a prime , and given , we call a sequence in a -sequence if it is periodic with period , and if it satisfies the linear recurrence with . Such a sequence is said to be a complete -sequence if in addition . For instance, every primitive root mod generates a complete -sequence for some (unique) . A natural question is whether every complete -sequence is necessarily defined by a primitive root. For the answer is known to be positive. In this paper we reexamine that case and investigate the case together with the associated cases and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0605348,
title = {Complete Padovan sequences in finite fields},
author = {Juan B. Gil and Michael D. Weiner and Catalin Zara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0605348},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
12 pages. To appear in The Fibonnaci Quarterly