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On a problem of Pillai with $k$-generalised Fibonacci numbers and powers of $2$

Number Theory 2018-01-25 v2

Abstract

For an integer k2 k\geq 2 , let {Fn(k)}n0 \{F^{(k)}_{n} \}_{n\geq 0} be the k k--generalized Fibonacci sequence which starts with 0,,0,1 0, \ldots, 0, 1 (k k terms) and each term afterwards is the sum of the k k preceding terms. In this paper, we find all integers cc having at least two representations as a difference between a kk--generalized Fibonacci number and a powers of 2 for any fixed k4k \geqslant 4. This paper extends previous work from [9] for the case k=2k=2 and [6] for the case k=3k=3.

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@article{arxiv.1707.07519,
  title  = {On a problem of Pillai with $k$-generalised Fibonacci numbers and powers of $2$},
  author = {Mahadi Ddamulira and Carlos A. Gómez and Florian Luca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07519},
  year   = {2018}
}

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