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Melham's Conjecture on Odd Power Sums of Fibonacci Numbers

Authors :
Sun, Brian Y.
Xie, Matthew H. Y.
Yang, Arthur L. B.
Publication Year :
2015

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

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1502.03294
Document Type :
Working Paper