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Schreier Multisets and the $s$-step Fibonacci Sequences

Combinatorics 2023-06-23 v2

Abstract

Inspired by the surprising relationship (due to A. Bird) between Schreier sets and the Fibonacci sequence, we introduce Schreier multisets and connect these multisets with the ss-step Fibonacci sequences, defined, for each s2s\geqslant 2, as: F2s(s)==F0(s)=0F^{(s)}_{2-s} = \cdots = F^{(s)}_0 = 0, F1(s)=1F^{(s)}_1 = 1, and Fn(s)=Fn1(s)++Fns(s),\mboxforn2F^{(s)}_{n} = F^{(s)}_{n-1} + \cdots + F^{(s)}_{n-s}, \mbox{ for } n\geqslant 2. Next, we use Schreier-type conditions on multisets to retrieve a family of sequences which satisfy a recurrence of the form a(n)=a(n1)+a(nu)a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-u), with a(n)=1a(n) = 1 for n=1,,un = 1,\ldots, u. Finally, we study nonlinear Schreier conditions and show that these conditions are related to integer decompositions, each part of which is greater than the number of parts raised to some power.

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@article{arxiv.2304.05409,
  title  = {Schreier Multisets and the $s$-step Fibonacci Sequences},
  author = {Hung Viet Chu and Nurettin Irmak and Steven J. Miller and Laszlo Szalay and Sindy Xin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05409},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Integers Conference 2023

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