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Structure and asymptotics for Motzkin numbers modulo primes using automata

Number Theory 2017-03-03 v1

Abstract

We establish a lower bound of 2/p(p-1) for the asymptotic density of the Motzkin numbers divisible by a general prime number p > 3. We provide a criteria for when this asymptotic density is actually 1. We also provide a partial characterisation of those Motzkin numbers which are divisible by a prime p > 3. All results are obtained using the automata method of Rowland and Yassawi.

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@article{arxiv.1703.00826,
  title  = {Structure and asymptotics for Motzkin numbers modulo primes using automata},
  author = {Rob Burns},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.00826},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

21 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1612.08146, arXiv:1701.02975

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