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Melham's conjecture on odd power sums of fibonacci numbers

Authors :
Matthew H.Y. Xie
Brian Y. Sun
Arthur L. B. Yang
Source :
Quaestiones Mathematicae; Vol 39, No 7 (2016); 945-957
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis, 2016.

Abstract

Ozeki and Prodinger showed that the odd power sum of the first several consecutive Fibonacci numbers of even order is equal to a polynomial evaluated at certain Fibonacci number of odd order. We prove that this polynomial and its derivative both vanish at $1$, and will be an integer polynomial after multiplying it by a product of the first consecutive Lucas numbers of odd order. This presents an affirmative answer to a conjecture of Melham.<br />Comment: 15pages

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
16073606 and 1727933X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Quaestiones Mathematicae
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....0a8ff956fef40cd9052f6f64b3da136e