Tiling proofs of recent sum identities involving Pell numbers

DOI10.1007/s00026-008-0350-5zbMath1169.05305OpenAlexW2062049174WikidataQ60691896 ScholiaQ60691896MaRDI QIDQ1021369

Arthur T. Benjamin, Sean S. Plott, James A. Sellers

Publication date: 8 June 2009

Published in: Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_fac_pub/103

zbMATH Keywords

Pell numbersBinet formulabijective proofssum identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39)

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