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On Pell numbers representable as product of two generalized Fibonacci numbers

Number Theory 2025-07-21 v1

Abstract

A generalization of the well-known Fibonacci sequence is the kk-Fibonacci sequence with some fixed integer k2k\ge 2. The first kk terms of this sequence are 0,0,,10,0, \ldots, 1, and each term afterwards is the sum of the preceding kk terms. In this paper, we find all Pell numbers that can be written as a product of two kk-Fibonacci numbers. The proof of our main theorem uses lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms, properties of continued fractions, and a variation of a result of Dujella and Peth\H{o} in Diophantine approximation. This work generalizes a prior result of Alekseyev which dealt with determining the intersection of the Fibonacci and Pell sequences, a work of Ddamulira, Luca and Rakotomalala who searched for Pell numbers which are products of two Fibonacci numbers, and a result of Bravo, G\'omez, and Herrera, who found all Pell numbers appearing in the kk-Fibonacci sequence.

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@article{arxiv.2507.13674,
  title  = {On Pell numbers representable as product of two generalized Fibonacci numbers},
  author = {Jhon J. Bravo and Pranabesh Das and Jose L. Herrera and John C. Saunders},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.13674},
  year   = {2025}
}