A q-Analogue of the Bi-Periodic Fibonacci Sequence
José L. Ramírez
Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Calle 74 No. 14 — 14
Bogotá
Colombia
Víctor F. Sirvent
Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad Simón Bolívar
Apartado 89000
Caracas 1086-A
Venezuela
Abstract:
The Fibonacci sequence has been generalized in many ways. One of them
is defined by the relation
tn = atn-1 + tn-2 if n is even,
and
tn = btn-1 + tn-2
if n is odd, with initial values t0 = 0 and
t1 = 1, where a and b
are positive integers. This sequence is called the bi-periodic
Fibonacci sequence. In the present article, we introduce a q-analog of
the bi-periodic Fibonacci sequence, and prove several identities
involving this sequence. We also give a combinatorial interpretation of
this q-analog bi-periodic Fibonacci sequence in terms of weighted
colored tilings.
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(Concerned with sequence
A000045.)
Received November 4 2015; revised version received March 30 2016.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, May 9 2016.
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