1“Dianet”, Laboratory of Digital Technologies, Moscow, Russia
Applied Mathematics and Physics.
2017,
Vol. 5 No. 1, 11-18
DOI: 10.12691/amp-5-1-2
Copyright © 2017 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Alexander V. Evako. Periodicity of Generalized Fibonacci-like Sequences.
Applied Mathematics and Physics. 2017; 5(1):11-18. doi: 10.12691/amp-5-1-2.
Correspondence to: Alexander V. Evako, “Dianet”, Laboratory of Digital Technologies, Moscow, Russia. Email:
evakoa@mail.ruAbstract
Generalized Fibonacci-like sequences appear in finite difference approximations of the Partial Differential Equations based upon replacing partial differential equations by finite difference equations. This paper studies properties of the generalized Fibonacci-like sequence Fn+2=A+BFn+1+CFn. It is shown that this sequence is periodic with period T>2, if C= -1, |B|<2.
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