Identities involving the tribonacci numbers squared via tiling with combs
Combinatorics
2024-09-04 v1
Abstract
The number of ways to tile an -board (an rectangular board) with -, -, and -combs is where is the th tribonacci number. A -comb is a tile composed of sub-tiles of dimensions (with the shorter sides always horizontal) separated by gaps of dimensions . 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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@article{arxiv.2201.02285,
title = {Identities involving the tribonacci numbers squared via tiling with combs},
author = {Michael A. Allen and Kenneth Edwards},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.02285},
year = {2024}
}
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7 pages, 1 figure