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Higher Order Fibonacci Sequences from Generalized Schreier sets

Number Theory 2020-11-30 v4

Abstract

A Schreier set SS is a subset of the natural numbers with minSS\min S\ge |S|. It has been known that the sequence (a1,n)(a_{1,n}), where a1,n := {SN:maxS=n\mboxandminSS},a_{1,n}\ :=\ |\{S\subseteq \mathbb{N}\,:\,\max S = n\mbox{ and } \min S \ge |S|\}|, is the Fibonacci sequence. Generalizing this result, we prove that for all pNp\in \mathbb{N}, the sequence (ap,n)(a_{p,n}), where ap,n := {SN:maxS=n\mboxandminSpS},a_{p, n} \ :=\ |\{S\subseteq \mathbb{N}\,:\,\max S = n\mbox{ and } \min S\ge p|S|\}|, has a linear recurrence relation of higher order. We investigate further by requiring that min2SqS{\rm min}_2 S\ge q |S|, where min2S\min_2 S is the second smallest element of SS. We prove a linear recurrence relation for the sequence (ap,q,n)(a_{p, q, n}), where ap,q,n := {SN:maxS=n,minSpS\mboxandmin2SqS},a_{p, q, n} \ :=\ |\{S\subseteq \mathbb{N}\,:\,\max S = n, \min S \ge p|S|\mbox{ and } {\rm min}_2 S\ge q|S|\}|, and discuss a curious relationship between (aq,n)(a_{q, n}) and (ap,q,n)(a_{p, q, n}).

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@article{arxiv.1909.03465,
  title  = {Higher Order Fibonacci Sequences from Generalized Schreier sets},
  author = {Hung Viet Chu and Steven J. Miller and Zimu Xiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03465},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, to appear in Fibonacci Quarterly, in the reference, we added the author of a blog post mentioned in the article

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