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Fibonacci Numbers and Groups

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Applications of Fibonacci Numbers

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The problems discussed in this paper arise from the theory of group presentations. In this section, we give a brief review of this subject, or, at least, those aspects of it which are relevant to the present paper. In the remaining sections we discuss links, occurring in our work over a number of years, between this topic and the Fibonacci and Lucas sequences of numbers (f n ) and (g n )

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  1. Colin M. Campbell
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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece

    A. N. Philippou

  2. Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

    A. F. Horadam

  3. Computer Science Department, South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA

    G. E. Bergum

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Campbell, C.M., Robertson, E.F., Thomas, R.M. (1988). Fibonacci Numbers and Groups. In: Philippou, A.N., Horadam, A.F., Bergum, G.E. (eds) Applications of Fibonacci Numbers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7801-1_6

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