Determinant identities for Toeplitz-Hessenberg matrices with tribonacci entries
نویسندگان
1 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Estado de México
2 Department of Mathematics, Science Faculty, UNAM
3 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Estado de México
4 Ciudad Universitaria,Coyoacán 04510,Ciudad de México, México
doi
10.22108/toc.2020.116257.1631چکیده
In this paper, we evaluate determinants of some families of Toeplitz--Hessenberg matrices having tribonacci number entries. These determinant formulas may also be expressed equivalently as identities that involve sums of products of multinomial coefficients and tribonacci numbers. In particular, we establish a connection between the tribonacci and the Fibonacci and Padovan sequences via Toeplitz--Hessenberg determinants. We then obtain, by combinatorial arguments, extensions of our determinant formulas in terms of generalized tribonacci sequences satisfying a recurrence of the form $T_n^{(r)}=T_{n-1}^{(r)}+T_{n-2}^{(r)}+T_{n-r}^{(r)}$ for $n \geq r$, with the appropriate initial conditions, where $r \geq 3$ is arbitrary.