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On K-Fibonacci Sequences and Polynomials and Their Derivatives Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 39 (2009) 1005–1019 www.elsevier.com/locate/chaos On k-Fibonacci sequences and polynomials and their derivatives Sergio Falco´n *,A´ ngel Plaza Department of Mathematics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Accepted 30 March 2007 Abstract The k-Fibonacci polynomials are the natural extension of the k-Fibonacci numbers and many of their properties admit a straightforward proof. Here in particular, we present the derivatives of these polynomials in the form of con- volution of k-Fibonacci polynomials. This fact allows us to present in an easy form a family of integer sequences in a new and direct way. Many relations for the derivatives of Fibonacci polynomials are proven. Ó 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction There is a huge interest of modern science in the application of the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers [1–10]. The Fibonacci numbers Fn are the terms of the sequence f0; 1; 1; 2; 3; 5; ...g wherein each term is the sum of the two previous terms, beginning with the values F0 = 0, and F1 = 1. On thep otherffiffi hand the ratio of two consecutive Fibonacci 1þ 5 numbers converges to the Golden Mean, or Golden Section, / ¼ 2 , which appears in modern research, particularly physics of the high energy particles [11,12] or theoretical physics [13–19]. The paper presented here was initially originated for the astonishing presence of the Golden Section in a recursive partition of triangles in the context of the finite element method and triangular refinements. In [20] we showed the rela- tion between the 4-triangle longest-edge partition and the k-Fibonacci numbers, as another example of the relation between geometry and numbers. On the other hand in [21] the k-Fibonacci numbers were given in an explicit way and, by easy arguments, many properties were proven. In particular the k-Fibonacci numbers were related with the so-called Pascal 2-triangle. From this point on, the present paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 a brief summary of the previous results obtained in References [20–22] is given. Section 3 is focused on the k-Fibonacci polynomials which are the natural extension of the k-Fibonacci numbers and many of their properties admit a straightforward proof. Here, in particular we relate the Catalan’s numbers with the coefficients of the successive powers xn written as linear combination of Fibo- nacci polynomials. Section 4 presents many formulas and relations for the derivatives of the Fibonacci polynomials. For example, their derivatives are given as convolution of Fibonacci polynomials. This fact allows us to present a family of integer sequences in a new and direct way. * Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 928 45 88 27; fax: +34 928 45 88 11. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Falco´n). 0960-0779/$ - see front matter Ó 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2007.03.007 1006 S. Falco´n, A´ . Plaza / Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 39 (2009) 1005–1019 2. The k-Fibonacci numbers and properties The k-Fibonacci numbers have been defined in [21] for any real number k as follows. Definition 1. For any positive real number k, the k-Fibonacci sequence, say fF k;ngn2N is defined recurrently by F k;nþ1 ¼ kF k;n þ F k;nÀ1 for n P 1: ð1Þ with initial conditions F k;0 ¼ 0; F k;1 ¼ 1 ð2Þ Note that if k is a real variable x then F k;n ¼ F x;n and they correspond to the Fibonacci polynomials defined by 8 9 <> 1ifn ¼ 0 => F ðxÞ¼ x if n ¼ 1 nþ1 :> ;> xF nðxÞþF nÀ1ðxÞ if n > 1 Particular cases of the k-Fibonacci sequence are • If k = 1, the classical Fibonacci sequence is obtained: F 0 ¼ 0; F 1 ¼ 1; and F nþ1 ¼ F n þ F nÀ1 for n P 1 : fF ngn2N ¼f0; 1; 1; 2; 3; 5; 8; ...g • If k = 2, the Pell sequence appears: P 0 ¼ 0; P 1 ¼ 1; and P nþ1 ¼ 2P n þ P nÀ1 for n P 1 : fP ngn2N ¼f0; 1; 2; 5; 12; 29; 70; ...g • If k = 3, the following sequence appears: H 0 ¼ 0; H 1 ¼ 1; and H nþ1 ¼ 3H n þ H nÀ1 for n P 1 : fH ngn2N ¼f0; 1; 3; 10; 33; 109; ...g The well-known Binet’s formula in the Fibonacci numbers theory [1,8,21] allows us to express the k-Fibonacci number in function of the roots r1 and r2 of the characteristic equation, associated to the recurrence relation (1) r2 = kr +1: n n r1 À r2 F k;n ¼ ð3Þ r1 À r2 rnÀrÀn If r denotes the positive root of the characteristic equation, the general term may be written in the form F k;n ¼ rþrÀ1 , and the limit of the quotient of two terms is F lim k;nþr ¼ rr ð4Þ n!1 F k;n In addition, the general term of the k-Fibonacci sequence may be obtained by the formula: bcnÀ1 1 X2 n nÀ2iÀ1 2 i ð5Þ F k;n ¼ nÀ1 k ðk þ 4Þ 2 i¼0 2i þ 1 or, equivalently, by nÀ1 bcX2 n À 1 À i nÀ1À2i F k;n ¼ k ð6Þ i¼0 i S. Falco´n, A´ . Plaza / Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 39 (2009) 1005–1019 1007 Table 1 The first k-Fibonacci numbers F k;1 ¼ 1 F k;2 ¼ k 2 F k;3 ¼ k þ 1 3 F k;4 ¼ k þ 2k 4 2 F k;5 ¼ k þ 3k þ 1 5 3 F k;6 ¼ k þ 4k þ 3k 6 4 2 F k;7 ¼ k þ 5k þ 6k þ 1 7 5 3 F k;8 ¼ k þ 6k þ 10k þ 4k 2.1. The k-Fibonacci numbers and the Pascal 2-triangle From the definition of the k-Fibonacci numbers, the first of them are presented in Table 1. From these expressions, one may deduce the value of any k-Fibonacci number by simple substitution on the corresponding F k;n. For example, 6 4 2 the seventh element of the 4-Fibonacci sequence, fF 4;ngn2N ,isF 4;7 ¼ 4 þ 5 Á 4 þ 6 Á 4 þ 1 ¼ 5473. By doing k ¼ 1; 2; 3; ... the respective k-Fibonacci sequences are obtained whose first elements are fF 1;ngn2N ¼f0; 1; 1; 2; 3; 5; 8; 13; 21; 34; 55 ...g fF 2;ngn2N ¼f0; 1; 2; 5; 12; 29; 70; 169; 408; 985; 2378 ...g fF 3;ngn2N ¼f0; 1; 3; 10; 33; 109; 360; 1189; 3927; 12970; 42837; ...g fF 4;ngn2N ¼f0; 1; 4; 17; 72; 305; 1292; 5473; 23184; 98209; 416020; ...g Sequence fF 1;ng is the classical Fibonacci sequence and fF 2;ng is the Pell sequence. It is worthy to be noted that only the first 11 k-Fibonacci sequences are referenced in The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [23] with the numbers given in Table 2. For k even with 12 6 k 6 62 sequences {Fk,n} are referenced without the first term Fk,0 =0in[23]. It is worthy to be noted that the coefficients arising in the previous list, see Table 1, can be written in triangular posi- tion, in such a way that every side of the triangle is double, and for this reason this triangle has been called Pascal 2- triangle [21]. See Table 3. Table 2 The first 11 k-Fibonacci sequences as numbered in The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [23] fF 1;ng A000045 fF 7;ng A054413 fF 2;ng A000129 fF 8;ng A041025 fF 3;ng A006190 fF 9;ng A099371 fF 4;ng A001076 fF 10;ng A041041 fF 5;ng A052918 fF 11;ng A049666 fF 6;ng A005668 Table 3 The Pascal 2-triangle 1. 1 2. 1 3. 1 1 4. 1 2 5. 1 3 1 6. 1 4 3 7. 1561 8. 1 6 10 4 9. 1715101 10. 1821205 11.192835151 12.1103656356 13.1114584 70211 14. 1 12 55 120 126 56 7 1008 S. Falco´n, A´ . Plaza / Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 39 (2009) 1005–1019 Table 4 New table from the Classical Pascal triangle 1111111... 1234567... 13610152128... 1 4 10 20 35 56 84 ... 1 5 15 35 70 126 210 ... 1 6 21 56 126 252 462 ... ... Note that the numbers belonging to the same row of the Pascal 2-triangle are the coefficients of F k;n as they are expressed in Eq. (6). Also the elements belonging to the odd rows in inverse way build the Modified Numerical Triangle (MNT) introduced by Trzaska in [24–26], and defined by the recurrence equation T nþ2ðxÞ¼ð2 þ xÞT nþ1ðxÞT nðxÞ, for n ¼ 0; 1; 2; ..., with initial values T0(x) = 1 and T1(x)=1+x. On the other hand, the even rows, written in inverse way, form the so-called (MNT2) triangle introduced by Trzaska in [26], and defined by the recurrence equation P nþ2ðxÞ¼ð2 þ xÞP nþ1ðxÞP nðxÞ, for n ¼ 0; 1; 2; ..., with initial values P0(x) = 1 and P1(x)=1. A simple explanation of the Pascal 2-triangle may be given by considering two sets of points in the coordinate axes X ¼fx ¼ðx; 0Þ=x 2 Ng and Y ¼fy ¼ð0; yÞ=y 2 Ng. A path between an x-point and a y-point is the not reversing path in the first quadrant from x to y by horizontal and vertical unit segments.
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