OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Discriminant of Fibonacci polynomials.
Fibonacci polynomials are defined as F(0)=0, F(1)=1 and F(n)=x*F(n-1)+F(n-2) for n>1. Coefficients are given in triangle A168561 with offset 1.
LINKS
Rigoberto Flórez, Robinson Higuita, and Alexander Ramírez, The resultant, the discriminant, and the derivative of generalized Fibonacci polynomials, arXiv:1808.01264 [math.NT], 2018.
Rigoberto Flórez, Robinson Higuita, and Antara Mukherjee, Star of David and other patterns in the Hosoya-like polynomials triangles, 2018.
R. Flórez, R. Higuita and A. Mukherjees, Characterization of the strong divisibility property for generalized Fibonacci polynomials, Integers, 18 (2018), Paper No. A14.
R. Flórez, N. McAnally, and A. Mukherjees, Identities for the generalized Fibonacci polynomial, Integers, 18B (2018), Paper No. A2.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Discriminant
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Fibonacci Polynomial
MATHEMATICA
Array[(-1)^((#-2)*(#-1)/2)*2^(#-1)*#^(#-3)&, 20]
PROG
(PARI) concat([1], [poldisc(p) | p<-Vec(x/(1-x^2-y*x) - x + O(x^20))]) \\ Andrew Howroyd, Aug 26 2018
(Magma) [(-1)^((n-2)*(n-1) div 2)*2^(n-1)*n^(n-3): n in [1..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 27 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign
AUTHOR
Rigoberto Florez, Aug 26 2018
STATUS
approved