Powers of 2 in the product of the Fibonacci numbers

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I'm working on finding a summation that pulls the powers of 2 out of the product of the Fibonacci numbers.

I've noticed some patterns for the Fibonacci number. For example. Looking at the Fibonacci numbers $${1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,....}$$ You notice that the pattern for powers of 2 is $$0,0,1,0,0,3,0,0,1,0,0,4,0,0,1,0,0,3,....$$ So it is a kind of a recurring pattern but it's copying and pasting on itself.

So I've tried to break it up into pieces. To label every where we see a power of 2 and what power those 2 are. Such as:

$2^1: 3+6n$, $2^3: 6 +12n$, $2^4: 12 +24n$, $2^k: 3k+2kn$

But I can't seem to find a useable summation. To make sure I've made my point clear I'm trying to find an equation that does the same thing as this equation does for $n!$ I just want my summation to work on the product of the Fibonacci numbers. $$\sum_{k=1}^n\left\lfloor{\frac n{2^k}}\right\rfloor$$

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If $n$ is not divisible by $3$, we have $\nu_2 (F_n) = 0$. Otherwise, if $n$ is odd, then $\nu_2 (F_n) = 1$. If $n$ is even, then $\nu_2 (F_n) = 2 + \nu_2 (n)$. There are elementary proofs of this, but it can be seen directly from properties of the $2$-adic exponential.

Using this, we can calculate $\nu_2 (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_{3m}) = \nu_2 (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_{3m+1}) = \nu_2 (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_{3m+2}) = $ $\nu_2 (F_3 F_6 \cdots F_{3m}) = \nu_2 (m!) + m + \lfloor \frac{m}{2} \rfloor$.

So our final formula becomes:

$$\nu_2 (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_n) =\left\lfloor \frac{n}{6} \right\rfloor + \sum_{k=0}^\infty \left\lfloor \frac{n}{3\cdot 2^k} \right\rfloor$$

(The $\lfloor \frac{n}{6}\rfloor$ term, which does not have a counterpart in the formulas below, reflects the fact that the $2$-adic exponential fails to converge on $2\mathbb{Z}_2$.)

Note that the $p$-adic valuation has an even simpler pattern when $p\neq 2$, though nothing beats $p=5$, as we have $\nu_5 (F_n) = \nu_5 (n)$, an amusing but surprisingly deep fact. That formula gives us, of course:

$$\nu_5 (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_n) =\sum_{k=1}^\infty \left\lfloor \frac{n}{5^k} \right\rfloor$$

In general, we have the following formula for $p$ odd, where $l$ denotes the smallest positive integer with $p \mid F_l$:

$$\nu_p (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_n) = \left\lfloor \frac{n}{l} \right\rfloor \cdot \nu_p (F_l) + \sum_{k=1}^\infty \left\lfloor \frac{n}{l\cdot p^k} \right\rfloor$$

That last formula is simpler than it looks: there are no known primes for which $\nu_p (F_l)\neq 1$, though the leading conjecture is that there are infinitely many; these are called Wall-Sun-Sun primes.

For an encore:

$$\nu_3 (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_n) =\sum_{k=0}^\infty \left\lfloor \frac{n}{4\cdot 3^k} \right\rfloor$$

$$\nu_7 (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_n) =\sum_{k=0}^\infty \left\lfloor \frac{n}{8\cdot 7^k} \right\rfloor$$

$$\nu_{13} (F_1 F_2 \cdots F_n) =\sum_{k=0}^\infty \left\lfloor \frac{n}{7\cdot 13^k} \right\rfloor$$

...and so on.