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Fibonacci Determinants: A Combinatorial Approach
Fibonacci Quarterly
  • Arthur T. Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College
  • Naiomi T. Cameron
  • Jennifer J. Quinn, University of Washington Tacoma
Publication Date
2-1-2007
Document Type
Article
Abstract

In this paper, we provide combinatorial interpretations for some determinantal identities involving Fibonacci numbers. We use the method due to Lindstrom-Gessel-Viennot in which we count nonintersecting n-routes in carefully chosen digraphs in order to gain insight into the nature of some well-known determinantal identities while allowing room to generalize and discover new ones.

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Arthur T. Benjamin, Naiomi T. Cameron and Jennifer J. Quinn. "Fibonacci Determinants: A Combinatorial Approach" Fibonacci Quarterly Vol. 45 Iss. 1 (2007) p. 39 - 55
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_quinn/8/