Related papers: A classification of Markoff-Fibonacci m-triples
By making use of only simple facts about congruence, we first show that every even Markoff number is congruent to 2 modulo 32, and then, generalizing an earlier result of Baragar, establish the uniqueness for those Markoff numbers c where…
We study the random Fibonacci tree, which is an infinite binary tree with non-negative integers at each node. The root consists of the number 1 with a single child, also the number 1. We define the tree recursively in the following way: if…
Let $\{N_m\}_{m\ge0}$ be the Narayana's cows sequence given by $N_0=0$, $N_1=1=N_2=1$ and \[ N_{m+3}=N_{m+2}+N_m,\quad \text{ for }\; m\geq 0 \] and let $\{F_n\}_{n\ge0}$ be the Fibonacci sequence. In this paper we solve explicitely the…
In this paper we completely solve the family of parametrised Thue equations \[ X(X-F_n Y)(X-2^n Y)-Y^3=\pm 1, \] where $F_n$ is the $n$-th Fibonacci number. In particular, for any integer $n\geq 3$ the Thue equation has only the trivial…
Let $(U_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be a fixed linear recurrence sequence defined over the integers (with some technical restrictions). We prove that there exist effectively computable constants $B$ and $N_0$ such that for any $b,c\in \mathbb{Z}$…
In these notes we study the $k$-generalized Fibonacci sequences - $(F_n^{(k)})_{n\in \Z}$ - with positive and negative indices. Denote $T_k(x)$ its characteristic polynomial. Our most interesting finding is that if $k$ is even then the…
Let $m(n, k)$ be the maximum number of prime implicants that any $k$-CNF on n variables can have. We show that $3^{n/3} \le m(n,2) \le (1+o(1))3^{n/3}$.
We consider quadruples of positive integers $(a,b,m,n)$ with $a\leq b$ and $m\leq n$ such that any proper edge-coloring of the complete bipartite graph $K_{m,n}$ contains a rainbow $K_{a,b}$ subgraph. We show that any such quadruple with…
Let $m$, $n$ be positive integers such that $m>n$, $\gcd(m,n)=1$ and $m \not\equiv n \bmod 2$. In 1956, L. Je\'smanowicz \cite{Jes} conjectured that the equation $(m^2 - n^2)^x + (2mn)^y = (m^2+n^2)^z$ has only the positive integer solution…
Let $N$ denote the number of solutions to the generalized Markoff-Hurwitz-type equation \[(a_1X_1^m+\cdots + a_nX_n^m+a)^k=bX_1\cdots X_n \] over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, where $m,k$ are positive integers, and $a,b,a_i\in…
By an $abc$ triple, we mean a triple $(a,b,c)$ of relatively prime positive integers $a,b,$ and $c$ such that $a+b=c$ and $\operatorname{rad}(abc)<c$, where $\operatorname{rad}(n)$ denotes the product of the distinct prime factors of $n$.…
Let $a$, $b$, $c$ be distinct primes with $a<b$. Let $S(a,b,c)$ denote the number of positive integer solutions $(x,y,z)$ of the equation $a^x + b^y = c^z$. In a previous paper \cite{LeSt} it was shown that if $(a,b,c)$ is a triple of…
We determine all triples $(a,b,n)$ of positive integers such that $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime and $n^k$ divides $a^n + b^n$ (respectively, $a^n - b^n$), when $k$ is the maximum of $a$ and $b$ (in fact, we answer a slightly more general…
It is well known that every positive integer can be expressed as a sum of nonconsecutive Fibonacci numbers provided the Fibonacci numbers satisfy $F_n =F_{n-1}+F_{n-2}$ for $n\geq 3$, $F_1 =1$ and $F_2 =2$. In this paper, for any…
We prove that for any positive integer c there are at least N(c), $1\leq N(c) < \phi(c)/2$ representations of c as a sum of two positive integers a, b, with no common divisor, such that the N(c) radicals R(abc) are all greater than kc,…
We show that for every integer $m > 0$, there is an ordinary abelian variety over ${\mathbb F}_2$ that has exactly $m$ rational points.
It is important in drawing techniques to find combinations of two straight lines and their angle bisectors whose slopes are all rational numbers. This problem is reduced to solving the Diophantine equation $(a-c)^2(b^2+1) = (b-c)^2(a^2+1).$…
In 2014 Marques and Lengyel gave all of the solutions to the equation $T_n=m!$, where $T_n$ is the $n$th term of the Tribonacci sequence $0,1,1,2,4,7,13,24,\ldots$. In 2023 Alahmadi and Luca generalized their result to the equation…
It is well known that Pascal's triangle exhibits fractal behavior when reduced modulo a prime. We show that the triangle of Fibonomial coefficients has a similar nature modulo two. Specifically, for any $m \ge 0$, the subtriangle consisting…
We study $B(n;k)$, the number of ways of writing $n$ as a sum or difference of the first $k$ Fibonacci numbers. We show that $B(0;k)$ satisfies the Tribonacci-like recurrence $B(0;k+1)=B(0;k)+B(0;k-1)+B(0;k-2)$ and that $B(n;k)$ satisfies a…