On the distribution of the roots of polynomial z k - z k - 1 - - z - 1

Carlos A. Gómez; Florian Luca

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae (2021)

  • Volume: 62, Issue: 3, page 291-296
  • ISSN: 0010-2628

Abstract

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We consider the polynomial f k ( z ) = z k - z k - 1 - - z - 1 for k 2 which arises as the characteristic polynomial of the k -generalized Fibonacci sequence. In this short paper, we give estimates for the absolute values of the roots of f k ( z ) which lie inside the unit disk.

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Gómez, Carlos A., and Luca, Florian. "On the distribution of the roots of polynomial $z^k-z^{k-1}-\dots - z-1$." Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae 62.3 (2021): 291-296. <http://eudml.org/doc/297693>.

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