A Fibonacci pair $F_s(w,x)$ of rank $s$ is a pair $s \times s$ nonsingular matrices such that $wx=xw$ and that the entries of $aw^n$ and $axw^m$ are polynomials of Fibonacci or Lucas numbers for some nonzero $a$. We construct identities systematically by the study of $F_2(w, x)$ and $F_3(w, x)$.
This note is dedicated to Professor Gould. The aim is to show how the identities in his book "Combinatorial Identities" can be used to obtain identities for Fibonacci and Lucas polynomials. In turn these identities allow to derive a wealth of numerical identities for Fibonacci and Lucas numbers.
We present here some new identities for generalizations of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers by combinatorially interpreting these numbers in terms of numbers of certain tilings of a $1 \times m$ board. As a consequence, some new interesting identities involving the ordinaries Fibonacci and Lucas numbers are derived.
We derive a new Fibonacci identity. This single identity subsumes important known identities such as those of Catalan, Ruggles, Halton and others, as well as standard general identities found in the books by Vajda, Koshy and others. We also derive several binomial and ordinary summation identities arising from this identity; in particular we obtain a generalization of Halton's general Fibonacci identity.
Results of this paper concern $n$-determinants which we defined in the paper \cite{jan}. In the paper \cite{jabo}, $2$-determinants are considered. In this paper, we extend results from \cite{jabo} on $n$-determinants by proving that Cassini, d'Ocagne, Catalan and Vajda identities may be extended to hold for $n$-step Fibonacci numbers.
The Fibonacci number is the residue of a rational function, from which follows that Fibonacci number summation identities can be derived with the integral representation method, a method also used to derive combinatorial identities. A number of weighted generalized Fibonacci number summation identities are derived this way. From these identities some infinite series, generating functions and convolution identities are obtained. In addition, some weighted generalized Fibonacci number summation identities with binomial coefficients are derived. Many examples of both types of summation identities…
Two new generalized Fibonacci number summation identities are stated and proved, and two other new generalized Fibonacci number summation identities are derived from these, of which two special cases are already known in literature.
We derive a collection of identities for bivariate Fibonacci and Lucas polynomials using essentially a matrix approach as well as properties of such polynomials when the variables $x$ and $y$ are replaced by polynomials. A wealth of combinatorial identities can be obtained for selected values of the variables.
We study $q$-analogues of $k$-Fibonacci numbers that arise from weighted tilings of an $n\times1$ board with tiles of length at most $k$. The weights on our tilings arise naturally out of distributions of permutations statistics and set partitions statistics. We use these $q$-analogues to produce $q$-analogues of identities involving $k$-Fibonacci numbers. This is a natural extension of results of the first author and Sagan on set partitions and the first author and Mathisen on permutations. In this paper we give general $q$-analogues of $k$-Fibonacci identities for arbitrary weights that depe…
We generalize both the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers to the context of graph colorings, and prove some identities involving these numbers. As a corollary we obtain new proofs of some known identities involving Fibonacci numbers such as \[F_{r+s+t} = F_{r+1}F_{s+1}F_{t+1} + F_r F_s F_t - F_{r-1}F_{s-1}F_{t-1}.\]
The \emph{Hosoya triangle} is a triangular array where every entry is a product of two Fibonacci numbers. We use the geometry of this triangle to find new identities related to Fibonacci numbers. We give geometric interpretation for some well-known identities of Fibonacci numbers. For instance, the Cassini identity and the Catalan identity. We also extend some identities that hold in the Pascal triangle to the Hosoya triangle. For instance, the hockey stick extends from binomials to products of Fibonacci numbers and the rhombus property extends a binomial identity from the Pascal triangle to a…
In this paper we explore two types of tilings of a honeycomb strip and derive some closed form formulas for the number of tilings. Furthermore, we obtain some new identities involving tribonacci numbers, Padovan numbers and Narayana's cow sequence and provide combinatorial proofs for several known identities about those numbers.
The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive survey of cubic Fibonacci identities, trying to uncover as many as possible. From the outset, our rationale for a very careful search on an apparently obscure problem was not only a matter of mathematical curiosity, but also motivated by a quest for 3D Fibonacci spirals. As we were not able to find any survey on the particular topic of cubic Fibonacci identities we decided to try to fill this void. We started by surveying many Fibonacci identities and recording cubic ones. Obviously, tracing all Fibonacci identities (for identifying a handful…
Sury's 2014 proof of an identity for Fibonacci and Lucas numbers (Identity 236 of Benjamin and Quinn's 2003 book: {\em Proofs that count: The art of combinatorial proof}) has excited a lot of comment. We give an alternate, telescoping, proof of this---and associated---identities and generalize them. We also give analogous identities for other sequences that satisfy a three-term recurrence relation.
We establish some identities relating two sequences that are, as explained, related to the Tribonacci sequence. One of these sequences bears the same resemblance to the Tribonacci sequence as the Lucas sequence does to the Fibonacci sequence. Defining a matrix that we call Tribomatrix, which extends the Fibonacci matrix, we see that the other sequence is related to the sum of the determinants of the 2nd order principal minors of this matrix.
We introduce the notion of Fibonacci and Lucas derivations of the polynomial algebras and prove that any element of kernel of the derivations defines a polynomial identity for the Fibonacci and Lucas polynomials. Also, we prove that any polynomial identity for Appel polynomial yields a polynomial identity for the Fibonacci and Lucas polynomials and describe the corresponding intertwining maps.
In this paper, some $k$-Fibonacci and $k$-Lucas with arithmetic indexes sums are derived by using the matrices $R_{a}=\left[ \begin{array}{lr} L_{k,a} & -(-1)^{a} \\ 1 & 0 \end{array}\right]$ and $S_{a}=\frac{1}{2}\left[ \begin{array}{lr} L_{k,a} & Δ_{a} \\ 1 & L_{k,a} \end{array}\right]$, where $Δ_{a}=L_{k,a}^{2}-4(-1)^{a}$. The most notable side of this paper is our proof method, since all the identities used in the proofs of main theorems are proved previously by using the matrices $R_{a}$ and $S_{a}$, with $a$ an natural number. Although the identities we proved are known, our proofs are n…
In this article we provide with combinatorial proofs of some recent identities due to Sury and McLaughlin. We show that, the solution of a general linear recurrence with constant coefficients can be interpreted as a determinant of a matrix. Also, we derive a determinantal expression of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers. We prove Binets formula for Fibonacci and Lucas numbers in a purely combinatorial way and in course of doing so, we find a determinantal identity, which we think to be new.
We extend Fibonacci numbers with arbitrary weights and generalize a dozen Fibonacci identities. As a special case, we propose an elliptic extension which extends the $q$-Fibonacci polynomials appearing in Schur's work. The proofs of most of the identities are combinatorial, extending the proofs given by Benjamin and Quinn, and in the $q$ case, by Garrett. Some identities are proved by telescoping.
We establish new product identities involving the $q$-analogue of the Fibonacci numbers. We show that the identities lead to alternate expressions of generating functions for close-packed dimers on non-orientable surfaces.
The Fibonacci polynomials $\big\{F_n(x)\big\}_{n\ge 0}$ have been studied in multiple ways. In this paper we study them by means of the theory of Heaps of Viennot. In this setting our polynomials form a basis $\big\{P_n(x)\big\}_{n\ge 0}$ with $P_n(x)$ monic of degree $n$. This given, we are forced to set $P_n(x)=F_{n+1}(x)$. The Heaps setting extends the Flajolet view of the classical theory of orthogonal polynomials given by a three term recursion. Thus with Heaps most of the identities for our $P_n(x)'s$ can be derived by combinatorial arguments. Using the present setting we derive a variet…
We derive identities for the determinants of matrices whose entries are (rising) powers of (products of) polynomials that satisfy a recurrence relation. In particular, these results cover the cases for Fibonacci polynomials, Lucas polynomials and certain orthogonal polynomials. These identities naturally generalize the determinant identities obtained by Alfred, Carlitz, Prodinger, Tangboonduangjit and Thanatipanonda.
Recently, Sagan and Savage introduced the notion of Eulerian pairs. In this note, we find Eulerian pairs on Fibonacci words based on Foata's first transformation or Han's bijection and a map in the spirit of a bijection of Steingr\'ımsson.
In this paper we present two families of Fibonacci-Lucas identities, with the Sury's identity being the best known representative of one of the families. While these results can be proved by means of the basic identity relating Fibonacci and Lucas sequences we also provide a bijective proof. Both families are then treated by generating functions.
We study matrices which transform the sequence of Fibonacci or Lucas polynomials with even index to those with odd index and vice versa. They turn out to be intimately related to generalized Stirling numbers and to Bernoulli, Genocchi and tangent numbers and give rise to various identities between these numbers. There is also a close connection with the Akiyama-Tanigawa algorithm.
We extend the notion of $k$-ribbon tableaux to the Fibonacci lattice, a differential poset defined by R. Stanley in 1975. Using this notion, we describe an insertion algorithm that takes $k$-colored permutations to pairs of $k$-ribbon Fibonacci tableaux of the same shape, and we demonstrate a color-to-spin property, similar to that described by Shimozono and White for ribbon tableaux. We give an evacuation algorithm which relates the pair of $k$-ribbon Fibonacci tableaux obtained through the insertion algorithm to the pair of $k$-ribbon Fibonacci tableaux obtained using Fomin's growth diagrams…
In this paper, we evaluate determinants of some families of Toeplitz-Hessenberg matrices having tribonacci number entries. These determinant formulas may also be expressed equivalently as identities that involve sums of products of multinomial coefficients and tribonacci numbers. In particular, we establish a connection between the tribonacci and the Fibonacci and Padovan sequences via Toeplitz-Hessenberg determinants. We then obtain, by combinatorial arguments, extensions of our determinant formulas in terms of generalized tribonacci sequences satisfying an r-th order recurrence of a more gen…
We give one parameter generalizations of the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers denoted by $\{F_n(þ)\}$ and $\{L_n(þ)\}$, respectively. We evaluate the Hankel determinants with entries $\{1/F_{j+k+1}(þ): 0\le i,j \le n\}$ and $\{1/L_{j+k+1}(þ): 0\le i,j\le n\}$. We also find the entries in the inverse of $\{1/F_{j+k+1}(þ): 0\le i,j \le n\}$ and show that all its entries are integers. Some of the identities satisfied by the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers are extended to more general numbers. All integer solutions to three diophantine equtions related to the Pell equation are also found.
Short, bijective proofs of identities for multisets of `hook pairs' (arm-leg pairs) of the cells of certain diagrams are given. These hook pair identities were originally found by Regev.
We study the random Fibonacci tree, which is an infinite binary tree with non-negative integers at each node. The root consists of the number 1 with a single child, also the number 1. We define the tree recursively in the following way: if x is the parent of y, then y has two children, namely |x-y| and x+y. This tree was studied by Benoit Rittaud who proved that any pair of integers a,b that are coprime occur as a parent-child pair infinitely often. We extend his results by determining the probability that a random infinite walk in this tree contains exactly one pair (1,1), that being at the r…
In this paper we use well-known results from linear algebra as tools to explore some properties of products of Fibonacci numbers. Specifically, we explore the behavior of the eigenvalues, eigenvectors, characteristic polynomials, determinants, and the norm of non-symmetric matrices embedded in the Hosoya triangle. We discovered that most of these objects either embed again in the Hosoya triangle or they give rise to Fibonacci identities. We also study the nature of these matrices when their entries are taken $\bmod$ $2$. As a result, we found an infinite family of non-connected graphs. Each gr…
Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University(北海道大学信息科学技术学院);Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University(北海道大学理学部);Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University of Education(北海道教育大学数学系)
For a positive integer $n$, we study the number of steps to reach $n$ by a {\it Fibonacci walk} for some starting pair $a_1$ and $a_2$ satisfying the recurrence of $a_{k+2}=a_{k+1}+a_k$. The problem of slow Fibonacci walks, first suggested by Richard Stanley, is to determine the maximum number $s(n)$ of steps for such a Fibonacci walk ending at $n$. Stanley conjectured that for most $n$, there is a slow Fibonacci walk reaching $n = a_s$ with the property that $a_{s+1}$ is the integer closest to $ϕn$ where $ϕ=(1+\sqrt{5})/2$. We prove that this is true for only a positive fraction of $n$. We gi…
In this article, we have proposed a public key cryptography using Affine-Hill cipher with a generalized Fibonacci matrix(called multinacci matrix). Also proposed a key establishment(exchange of key matrix $K=Q_λ^{k}$ of order $λ\timesλ$ for encryption-decryption) scheme with the help of multinacci sequences under prime modulo. In this scheme, instead of exchanging key matrix, we need to exchange the only pair of numbers $(λ, k)$, which reduces the time complexity as well as space complexity and comes with a large key-space.