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The Geometry of some Fibonacci Identities in the Hosoya Triangle

Number Theory 2022-06-28 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

The \emph{Hosoya triangle} is a triangular array where every entry is a product of two Fibonacci numbers. We use the geometry of this triangle to find new identities related to Fibonacci numbers. We give geometric interpretation for some well-known identities of Fibonacci numbers. For instance, the Cassini identity and the Catalan identity. We also extend some identities that hold in the Pascal triangle to the Hosoya triangle. For instance, the hockey stick extends from binomials to products of Fibonacci numbers and the rhombus property extends a binomial identity from the Pascal triangle to an identity of products of Fibonacci numbers in the Hosoya triangle.

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@article{arxiv.1804.02481,
  title  = {The Geometry of some Fibonacci Identities in the Hosoya Triangle},
  author = {Rigoberto Flórez and Robinson A. Higuita and Antara Mukherjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02481},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

There are 17 figures representing Fibonacci identities in the Hosoya triangle