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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