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A generalization of the well-known Fibonacci sequence is the $k$-Fibonacci sequence with some fixed integer $k\ge 2$. The first $k$ terms of this sequence are $0,0, \ldots, 1$, and each term afterwards is the sum of the preceding $k$ terms.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Jhon J. Bravo , Pranabesh Das , Jose L. Herrera , John C. Saunders

There are three long-known types of restricted integer compositions whose counts match the Fibonacci sequence:\ one from ancient India and two from 19th century England. We give proofs of these enumeration results using tiling arguments and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Brian Hopkins

It is conjectured that for any fixed relatively prime positive integers $a,b$ and $c$ all greater than 1 there is at most one solution to the equation $a^x+b^y=c^z$ in positive integers $x,y$ and $z$, except for specific cases. We develop…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Takafumi Miyazaki , István Pink

In this paper, we show that for any integer $a \geq 2$, each of the intervals $[a^k , a^{k + 1})$ ($k \in \mathbb{N}$) contains either $\left\lfloor \frac{\log a}{\log\Phi}\right\rfloor$ or $\left\lceil \frac{\log a}{\log\Phi}\right\rceil$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Bakir Farhi

We dedicate this paper to investigate the most generalized form of Fibonacci Sequence, one of the most studied sections of the mathematical literature. One can notice that, we have discussed even a more general form of the conventional one.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Masum Billal

Based on the structure of Fibonacci sequence, we give a new proof for the irrationality exponents of the Fibonacci real numbers. Moreover, we obtain all the irrationality exponents of the real numbers corresponding to the differences of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Ying-jun Guo , Zhi-xiong Wen , Jie-meng Zhang

In this paper, we give a new representation of the Fibonacci numbers. This is achieved using Fibonacci trees. With the help of this representation, the nth Fibonacci number can be calculated without having any knowledge about the previous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Indhumathi Raman

A Filbert matrix is a matrix whose (i,j) entry is 1/F_(i+j-1), where F_n is the nth Fibonacci number. The inverse of the n by n Filbert matrix resembles the inverse of the n by n Hilbert matrix, and we prove that it shares the property of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas M. Richardson

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the explicit form, stability character and global behavior of solutions of the following two systems of rational difference equations x_{n+1}=((+(-)1)/(y_{n}(x_{n-1}+(-)1)+1)),…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-25 İnci Okumuş , Yüksel Soykan

In this paper, we obtain a general expression for the entries of the r. (r is integer) power of a certain n-square complex tridiagonal matrix. In addition, we get the complex factorizations of Fibonacci polynomials, Fibonacci and Pell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Durmuş Bozkurt , Şerife Burcu Bozkurt

In a previous paper we have presented a partition formula for the even-index Fibonacci numbers using the preprojective representations of the 3-Kronecker quiver and its universal cover, the 3-regular star. Now we deal in a similar way with…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-13 Philipp Fahr , Claus Michael Ringel

In this paper, we define a variant of Fibonacci-like sequences that we call prime Fibonacci sequences, where one takes the sum of the previous two terms and returns the smallest odd prime divisor of that sum as the next term. We prove that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-20 Jeremy Alm , Taylor Herald

In two previous papers we have presented partition formulae for the Fibonacci numbers motivated by the appearance of the Fibonacci numbers in the representation theory of the 3-Kronecker quiver and its universal cover, the 3-regular tree.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Philipp Fahr , Claus Michael Ringel

We present a lovely connection between the Fibonacci numbers and the sums of inverses of $(0,1)-$ triangular matrices, namely, a number $S$ is the sum of the entries of the inverse of an $n \times n$ $(n \geq 3)$ $(0,1)-$ triangular matrix…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Miriam Farber , Abraham Berman

We show that essentially the Fibonacci sequence is the unique binary recurrence which contains infinitely many three-term arithmetic progressions. A criterion for general linear recurrences having infinitely many three-term arithmetic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-21 Akos Pinter , Volker Ziegler

In this note we investigate the solutions of certain meta-Fibonacci recurrences of the form $f(n)=f(n-f(n-1))+f(n-2)$ for various sets of initial conditions. In the case when $f(n)=1$ for $n\leq 1$, we prove that the resulting integer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Bartosz Sobolewski , Maciej Ulas

We study the combinatorial properties of final types, which are certain non-decreasing sequences of integers, together with the partitions naturally associated with them. As a consequence, we obtain an identity expressing the $n$-nacci…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dušan Dragutinović

In this paper, we consider representations of integers as sums of at most four distinct $m$-gonal numbers (allowing a fixed number of repeats of each polygonal number occurring in the sum). We show that the number of such representations…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Kathrin Bringmann , Min-Joo Jang , Ben Kane , Cheuk Hin Alvin Tse

We speculate on the distribution of primes in exponentially growing, linear recurrence sequences $(u_n)_{n\geq 0}$ in the integers. By tweaking a heuristic which is successfully used to predict the number of prime values of polynomials, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Jon Grantham , Andrew Granville

For positive integers $a,b,c$, and an integer $n$, the number of integer solutions $(x,y,z) \in \mathbb Z^3$ of $a \frac{x(x-1)}{2} + b \frac{y(y-1)}{2} + c \frac{z(z-1)}{2} = n$ is denoted by $t(a,b,c;n)$. In this article, we prove some…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Mingyu Kim , Byeong-Kweon Oh