The Fibonacci Sequence and Schreier-Zeckendorf Sets
Hùng Việt Chu
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 61820
USA
Abstract:
A finite subset of the natural numbers is weak-Schreier if min
S ≥ |S|,
strong-Schreier if min S > |S|,
and maximal if min S = |S|.
Let Mn be the number of weak-Schreier sets with
largest element n and let
(Fn)n≥-1
denote the Fibonacci sequence. A finite set is said to be
Zeckendorf if it does
not contain two consecutive natural numbers.
Let En be the number of
Zeckendorf subsets of {1,2, …, n}. It is well-known that
En = Fn+2.
In this paper, we first show four other ways to generate the
Fibonacci sequence from counting Schreier sets.
For example, let Cn
be the number of weak-Schreier subsets of {1,2,…,n}.
Then Cn =
Fn+2.
To understand why Cn = En, we provide a bijective mapping to
prove the equality directly. Next, we prove linear recurrence relations
among the number of Schreier-Zeckendorf sets. Lastly, we discover the
Fibonacci sequence by counting the number of subsets of
{1,2,…,n} such that two consecutive elements
in increasing order always differ by an
odd number.
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(Concerned with sequence
A000045.)
Received June 26 2019; revised version received August 31 2019;
September 2 2019.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences,
September 3 2019.
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