{ "id": "math/0608776", "version": "v1", "published": "2006-08-31T10:06:42.000Z", "updated": "2006-08-31T10:06:42.000Z", "title": "$n$-Colour self-inverse compositions", "authors": [ "Geetika Narang", "A K Agarwal" ], "comment": "10 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "MacMahon's definition of self-inverse composition is extended to $n$-colour self-inverse composition. This introduces four new sequences which satisfy the same recurrence relation with different initial conditions like the famous Fibonacci and Lucas sequences. For these new sequences explicit formulas, recurrence relations, generating functions and a summation formula are obtained. Two new binomial identities with combinatorial meaning are also given.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2006-08-31T10:06:42.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05A15", "05A17", "11P81" ], "keywords": [ "colour self-inverse composition", "recurrence relation", "sequences explicit formulas", "macmahons definition", "initial conditions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2006math......8776N" } } }