The sequence of trifurcating Fibonacci numbers

Abstract

One of the interesting generalizations of Fibonacci sequence is a k-Fibonacci sequence, which is further generalized into the ‘Bifurcating Fibonacci sequence’. In this paper we further generalize it into the sequence of ‘trifurcating Fibonacci numbers’. We obtain the Binet-like formula for these numbers. We also obtain the analogous of Cassini’s identity, Catalan’s identity, d’Ocagne’s identity and some fundamental identities for the terms of this sequence.

Keywords

• fibonacci sequence, bifurcating fibonacci sequence, generalization of fibonacci sequence, binet formula, identities related with the fibonacci sequence.