[seqfan] Boubaker polynomials?

[Antti Karttunen]

On 12/4/09, seqfan-request at list.seqfan.eu <seqfan-request at list.seqfan.eu> wrote:

> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:00:02 -0500
> From: "N. J. A. Sloane" <njas at research.att.com>
> Subject: [seqfan] Re: Forward of a collaboration request
>
> Dear Seqfans,  The three links that Richard sent are pretty scary.
> I hope the OEIS Wiki doesn't end up having discussions
> like that.  I learned some new words too (e.g. "sock-puppet").
> Neil

I think a very well drafted editing policy for OEIS Wiki would be the
first step for preventing all that. Note that in contrast to
Wikipedia, OEIS _has_ allowed "original research", provided the
sequences have some intrinsic idea, not
just self-promotion.

(However, I remember that there's a restriction of not allowing to use
submitter's name as a part of sequence's name.)

And Max wrote:

> Message: 9
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:21:37 -0500
> From: Max Alekseyev <maxale at gmail.com>
> Subject: [seqfan] Re: Forward of a collaboration request (Rakhmanov,
> 	Boubaker 	poly)
> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>

> I've also got similar request and in response briefly mentioned that
> Boubaker polynomials B_n(X) are expressed in terms of Lucas
> polynomials:
>
> B_n(X) = U_n(X,1) + 3 * U_{n-2}(X,1)    for n>=2.
>
> They do not look any special to me (we can easily construct zillions
> of similar polynomial sequences) - so I don't understand buzz about
> them.

Yes, I don't understand why in Wikipedia they couldn't just briefly
mention it in
the end of entry for Lucas polynomials/Fibonacci polynomials,
that,
"sometimes B_n(X) = U_n(X,1) + 3 * U_{n-2}(X,1)    for n>=2.
are called Boubaker polynomials"
(if there really exists a published paper using that name!)
and then rest the case without continuing delete/recreate-wars.

Or make a whole tables of "Polynomials derived from
Lucas/Chebyshev/whatever polynomials", with myriad of entries with
various surnames.

>
> Regards,
> Max
>

Cheers,

Antti