Robbins and Ardila meet Berstel
Combinatorics
2020-08-04 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Number Theory
Abstract
In 1996, Neville Robbins proved the amazing fact that the coefficient of in the Fibonacci infinite product is always either , , or . The same result was proved later by Federico Ardila using a different method. Meanwhile, in 2001, Jean Berstel gave a simple 4-state transducer that converts an "illegal" Fibonacci representation into a "legal" one. We show how to obtain the Robbins-Ardila result from Berstel's with almost no work at all, using purely computational techniques that can be performed by existing software.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2007.14930,
title = {Robbins and Ardila meet Berstel},
author = {Jeffrey Shallit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14930},
year = {2020}
}