Linear Recurrence Sequences and Their Convolutions via Bell Polynomials
Daniel Birmajer
Department of Mathematics
Nazareth College
Rochester, NY 14618
USA
Juan B. Gil and Michael D. Weiner
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Penn State Altoona
Altoona, PA 16601
USA
Abstract:
We recast homogeneous linear recurrence sequences with fixed
coefficients in terms of partial Bell polynomials, and use their
properties to obtain various combinatorial identities and multifold
convolution formulas. Our approach relies on a basis of sequences that
can be obtained as the INVERT transform of the coefficients of the
given recurrence relation. For such a basis sequence with generating
function Y(t),
and for any positive integer r, we give a formula
for the convolved sequence generated by
Y(t)r and prove that it
satisfies an elegant recurrence relation.
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(Concerned with sequences
A000073
A000931
A001628
A001629
A001872
A073778
A228577.)
Received
May 29 2014;
revised versions received November 28 2014; November 29 2014.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, December 14 2014.
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