Partitions enumerated by self-similar sequences
Abstract
The Fibonacci numbers are the prototypical example of a recursive sequence, but grow too quickly to enumerate sets of integer partitions. The same is true for the other classical sequences defined by Fibonacci-like recursions: the tribonacci, Padovan, Pell, Narayana's cows, and Lucas sequences. For each sequence , however, we can define a related sequence by defining to have the same recurrence and initial conditions as , except that . Growth is no longer a problem: for each we construct recursively a set of partitions of such that the cardinality of is . We study the properties of partitions in and in each case we give non-recursive descriptions. We find congruences for and also for , the total number of parts in all partitions in .
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@article{arxiv.2303.11493,
title = {Partitions enumerated by self-similar sequences},
author = {Cristina Ballantine and George Beck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.11493},
year = {2023}
}
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36 pages