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The Combinatorialization of Linear Recurrences
Electronic Journal Of Combinatorics
  • Arthur T. Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College
  • Halcyon Derks
  • Jennifer J. Quinn, University of Washington Tacoma
Publication Date
6-11-2011
Document Type
Article
Abstract

We provide two combinatorial proofs that linear recurrences with constant co-efficients have a closed form based on the roots of its characteristic equation. The proofs employ sign-reversing involutions on weighted tilings

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open access
Citation Information
Arthur T. Benjamin, Halcyon Derks and Jennifer J. Quinn. "The Combinatorialization of Linear Recurrences" Electronic Journal Of Combinatorics Vol. 18 Iss. 2 (2011) p. P12
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_quinn/24/