On monotonicity of some combinatorial sequences
Combinatorics
2014-12-24 v8
Abstract
We confirm Sun's conjecture that is strictly decreasing to the limit 1, where is the Fibonacci sequence. We also prove that the sequence is strictly decreasing with limit , where is the -th derangement number. For -th order harmonic numbers , we show that is strictly increasing.
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@article{arxiv.1208.3903,
title = {On monotonicity of some combinatorial sequences},
author = {Qing-Hu Hou and Zhi-Wei Sun and Haomin Wen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.3903},
year = {2014}
}
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10 pages