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Transcendental solution to linear coefficient non-homogeneous second order recurrence relation with constant non-homogenity

Combinatorics 2022-08-18 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

Second order recurrence relations of real numbers arise form various applications in discrete time dynamical systems as well as in the context on Markov chains. Solutions to the recurrence relations are fully defined by the first two initial values as well as the recurrence formula. We calculate in this work explicitly as a function of a1a_1 the minimal positive solution (ai)iN(a_i)_{i\in\mathbb{N}} to non-homogeneous second order recurrence relation with affine coefficients when the non-homogeneity is constant and negative, and the first initial value equals a0=0a_0=0. We show that rational coefficients lead to a sequence of transcendental numbers. Additionally, we prove that this sequence is the only bounded solution when varying a1a_1, converges to 00 and obtain the convergence speed in O(i1)O(i^{-1}). We comment in the last section further on the choice of rational parameters in the recurrence relation and we make a link to the impossibility of obtaining computer based visualizations of the minimal positive solution (ai)iN(a_i)_{i\in\mathbb{N}}.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12136,
  title  = {Transcendental solution to linear coefficient non-homogeneous second order recurrence relation with constant non-homogenity},
  author = {Jens Walter Fischer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12136},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, 1 Figure

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