On the l.c.m. of shifted Fibonacci numbers
Abstract
Let be the sequence of Fibonacci numbers. Guy and Matiyasevich proved that \begin{equation*} \log \operatorname{lcm} (F_1, F_2, \dots, F_n) \sim \frac{3 \log \alpha}{\pi^2} \cdot n^2 \quad \text{as } n \to +\infty, \end{equation*} where is the least common multiple and is the golden ratio. We prove that for every periodic sequence in there exists an effectively computable rational number such that \begin{equation*} \log \operatorname{lcm} (F_3 + s_3, F_4 + s_4, \dots, F_n + s_n) \sim \frac{3 \log \alpha}{\pi^2} \cdot C_\mathbf{s} \cdot n^2 , \quad \text{as } n \to +\infty . \end{equation*} Moreover, we show that if is a sequence of independent uniformly distributed random variables in then \begin{equation*} \mathbb{E}\big[\log \operatorname{lcm} (F_3 + s_3, F_4 + s_4, \dots, F_n + s_n)\big] \sim \frac{3 \log \alpha}{\pi^2} \cdot \frac{15 \operatorname{Li}_2(1 / 16)}{2} \cdot n^2 , \quad \text{as } n \to +\infty , \end{equation*} where is the dilogarithm function.
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@article{arxiv.2007.13330,
title = {On the l.c.m. of shifted Fibonacci numbers},
author = {Carlo Sanna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13330},
year = {2020}
}