Coincidences in generalized Lucas sequences
Number Theory
2014-02-18 v1
Abstract
For an integer , let be the generalized Lucas sequence which starts with ( terms) and each term afterwards is the sum of the preceding terms. In this paper, we find all the integers that appear in different generalized Lucas sequences; i.e., we study the Diophantine equation in nonnegative integers with . The proof of our main theorem uses lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms of algebraic numbers and a version of the Baker-Davenport reduction method. This paper is a continuation of the earlier work [4].
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@article{arxiv.1402.4085,
title = {Coincidences in generalized Lucas sequences},
author = {Eric F. Bravo and Jhon J. Bravo and Florian Luca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4085},
year = {2014}
}
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14 pages