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A Three-by-Three matrix representation of a generalized Tribonacci sequence

Combinatorics 2018-07-11 v1

Abstract

The Tribonacci sequence is a well-known example of third order recurrence sequence, which belongs to a particular class of recursive sequences. In this article, other generalized Tribonacci sequence is introduced and defined by Hn+2=Hn+1+Hn+Hn1  (n1)H_{n+2}=H_{n+1}+H_{n}+H_{n-1}\ \ (n\geq 1), where H0=3H_{0}=3, H1=0H_{1}=0 and H2=2H_{2}=2. Also nn-th power of the generating matrix for this generalized Tribonacci sequence is established and some basic properties of this sequence are obtained by matrix methods. There are many elementary formulae relating the various HnH_{n}, most of which, since the sequence is defined inductively, are themselves usually proved by induction.

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@article{arxiv.1807.03340,
  title  = {A Three-by-Three matrix representation of a generalized Tribonacci sequence},
  author = {Gamaliel Cerda-Morales},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03340},
  year   = {2018}
}
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