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Repdigits in Narayana's Cows Sequence and their Consequences

Number Theory 2020-10-14 v2

Abstract

Narayana's cows sequence satisfies the third-order linear recurrence relation Nn=Nn1+Nn3N_n=N_{n-1}+N_{n-3} for n3n \geq 3 with initial conditions N0=0N_0=0 and N1=N2=1N_1=N_2=1. In this paper, we study bb-repdigits which are sums of two Narayana numbers. We explicitly determine these numbers for the bases 2b1002\le b\leq100 as an illustration. We also obtain results on the existence of Mersenne prime numbers, 10-repdigits, and numbers with distinct blocks of digits in the Narayana sequence. The proof of our main theorem uses lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms and a version of the Baker-Davenport reduction method in Diophantine approximation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.12797,
  title  = {Repdigits in Narayana's Cows Sequence and their Consequences},
  author = {Jhon J. Bravo and Pranabesh Das and Sergio Guzmán},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12797},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Minor modifications, To appear in Journal of Integer Sequences

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