2-dimensional version of Fibonacci numbers
Marc LeBrun
mlb at fxpt.com
Sun Nov 16 01:30:15 CET 2003
>=Yuval Dekel <dekelyuval at hotmail.com>
> Let a(m,n) = number of mXn (0,1) matrices that have no consecutive
> horizontal or vertical 0's.
> So a(1,n)=a(n,1) are the Fibonacci numbers - A000045.
> Is there a formula for a(n,n)?
> I guess that for fixed m, a(m,n) has a linear recurrence formula
similar
> to A000045.
Interesting idea. Here's the initial 7x7 corner of this table:
2 3 5 8 13 21 34
3 7 17 41 99 239 577
5 17 63 227 827 2999 10897
8 41 227 1234 6743 36787 200798
13 99 827 6743 55447 454385 3729091
21 239 2999 36787 454385 5598861 69050253
34 577 10897 200798 3729091 69050253 1280128950
which is as far as I've computed it. The diagonal values check with
A006506 (thanks for the ref, Ed).
Due to the symmetry I've got enough values to submit a full OEIS entry
(which I'll do soon), since extending the rows is relatively cheap.
Row 2 is A001333 and Rows 3 & 4 are A051736 and A015737. These have an
interesting looking link to Calkin & Wilf, "The number of independent
sets in a grid" but unfortunately I wasn't able to download the reprint.
Should I bother adding Rows 5, 6 and 7?
The orders of the first seven row recurrences are 2 2 4 5 9 11 21. From
this I don't expect a very easy formula for the diagonal values, but
perhaps the linked paper contains something magic...
PS: Row 2 coincidentally happens to be one of those continued fraction
sequences I was just recently ranting about!
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