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On Divisibility of
Fibonomial Coefficients by $ 3$
Diego Marques
Departamento de Matemática
Universidade de Brasília
Brasília, DF
Brazil
mailto:diego@mat.unb.brdiego@mat.unb.br

Pavel Trojovský
Department of Mathematics
University of Hradec Králové
Faculty of Science
Rokitanského 62
Hradec Králové, 500 03
Czech Republic
mailto:pavel.trojovsky@uhk.czpavel.trojovsky@uhk.cz

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Abstract:

Let $ F_n$ be the $ n$th Fibonacci number. For $ 1\le k\le
m-1$ let

$\displaystyle {m\brack k}_F= \frac{F_m F_{m-1}\cdots F_{m-k+1}}{F_1\cdots F_k}$ (1)

be the corresponding Fibonomial coefficient. In this paper, we present some divisibility properties of $ {sn \brack n}_F$ by $ 3$, for some positive integers $ n$ and $ s$. In particular, among other things, we prove that $ 3 \mid {3^{a+1} \brack 3^a}_F$ , for all $ a\geq 1$.



Jeffrey Shallit 2012-06-19