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Explicit evaluations of the Hankel determinants of a Thue--Morse-like sequence

Number Theory 2014-06-09 v1

Abstract

We obtain the explicit evaluations of the Hankel determinants of the formal power series k0(1+Jx3k)\prod_{k\geq 0}(1+Jx^{3^{k}}) where J=(31)/2J={(\sqrt{-3}-1)}/2, and prove that the sequence of Hankel determinants is an aperiodic automatic sequence taking value in {0,±1,±J,±J2}\{0, \pm 1, \pm J, \pm J^2\}. This research is essentially inspired by the works about Hankel determinants of Thue--Morse-like sequences by Allouche, Peyri\`ere, Wen and Wen (1998), Bacher (2006) and the first author (2013).

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@article{arxiv.1406.1594,
  title  = {Explicit evaluations of the Hankel determinants of a Thue--Morse-like sequence},
  author = {Guo-Niu Han and Wen Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1594},
  year   = {2014}
}