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A Note on the Fibonacci Sequence and Schreier-type Sets

Combinatorics 2022-09-08 v2

Abstract

A set AA of positive integers is said to be Schreier if either A=A = \emptyset or minAA\min A\ge |A|. We give a bijective map to prove the recurrence of the sequence (Kn,p,q)n=1(|\mathcal{K}_{n, p, q}|)_{n=1}^\infty (for fixed p1p\ge 1 and q2q\ge 2), where Kn,p,q = {A{1,,n}:\mboxeitherA=\mboxor(maxAmax2A=p\mboxandminAAq)}\mathcal{K}_{n, p, q} \ = \ \{A\subset \{1, \ldots, n\}\,:\, \mbox{either }A = \emptyset \mbox{ or } (\max A-\max_2 A = p\mbox{ and }\min A\ge |A|\ge q)\} and max2A\max_2 A is the second largest integer in AA, given that A2|A|\ge 2. When p=1p = 1 and q=2q=2, we have that (Kn,1,2)n=1(|\mathcal{K}_{n, 1, 2}|)_{n=1}^\infty is the Fibonacci sequence. As a corollary, we obtain a new combinatorial interpretation for the sequence (Fn+n)n=1(F_n + n)_{n=1}^\infty.

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@article{arxiv.2205.14260,
  title  = {A Note on the Fibonacci Sequence and Schreier-type Sets},
  author = {Hung Viet Chu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14260},
  year   = {2022}
}

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3 pages, 0 figures. To appear in Fibonacci Quarterly

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