New Behavior in Legal Decompositions Arising from Non-positive Linear Recurrences
New Behavior in Legal Decompositions Arising from Non-positive Linear Recurrences
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非正线性递归引起的法律分解的新行为
DOI:
10.1177/0143034308090060
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发表时间:
2016
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通讯作者:
Huanzhong Xu
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作者:
M. Catral;Pari L. Ford;P. Harris;Steven J. Miller;Dawn Nelson;Zhao Pan;Huanzhong Xu
Zeckendorf's theorem states every positive integer has a unique decomposition as a sum of non-adjacent Fibonacci numbers. This result has been generalized to many sequences $\{a_n\}$ arising from an integer positive linear recurrence, each of which has a corresponding notion of a legal decomposition. Previous work proved the number of summands in decompositions of $m \in [a_n, a_{n+1})$ becomes normally distributed as $n\to\infty$, and the individual gap measures associated to each $m$ converge to geometric random variables, when the leading coefficient in the recurrence is positive. We explore what happens when this assumption is removed in two special sequences. In one we regain all previous results, including unique decomposition; in the other the number of legal decompositions exponentially grows and the natural choice for the legal decomposition (the greedy algorithm) only works approximately 92.6\% of the time (though a slight modification always works). We find a connection between the two sequences, which explains why the distribution of the number of summands and gaps between summands behave the same in the two examples. In the course of our investigations we found a new perspective on dealing with roots of polynomials associated to the characteristic polynomials. This allows us to remove the need for the detailed technical analysis of their properties which greatly complicated the proofs of many earlier results in the subject, as well as handle new cases beyond the reach of existing techniques.
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发表时间:
2019
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The Fibonacci quarterly
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作者:
Li, Ray;Miller, Steven J.
通讯作者:
Miller, Steven J.