Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.6.8

Some Toeplitz-Hessenberg Determinant Identities for the Tetranacci Numbers


Taras Goy
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
Ivano-Frankivsk
Ukraine

Mark Shattuck
Department of Mathematics
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
USA

Abstract:

In this paper, we consider families of Toeplitz-Hessenberg determinants the entries of which are tetranacci numbers. In several cases, it is found that these determinants have simple closed form expressions in terms of well-known combinatorial sequences. Equivalently, the determinant formulas may be expressed as identities involving sums of products of tetranacci numbers and multinomial coefficients. In particular, we establish a connection between the tetranacci and both the Fibonacci and tribonacci number sequences via Toeplitz-Hessenberg determinants. Finally, combinatorial proofs that make use of sign-changing involutions and the formal definition of the determinant as a signed sum over the permutation group may be provided for several of the identities.


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(Concerned with sequences A000045 A000073 A000078 A001591 A001592 A079262 A104144 A122189.)


Received December 9 2019; revised version received April 2 2020. Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, June 11 2020.


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