A general two-term recurrence and its solution

Toufik Mansour; Shashikant Mulay; Mark Shattuck

doi:10.1016/j.ejc.2011.07.008

A general two-term recurrence and its solution

Toufik Mansour
, Shashikant Mulay
, Mark Shattuck

Department of Mathematics

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Abstract

We find a general explicit formula for all sequences satisfying a two-term recurrence of a certain kind. This generalizes familiar formulas for the Stirling and Lah numbers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	20-26
Number of pages	7
Journal	European Journal of Combinatorics
Volume	33
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2011.07.008
State	Published - Jan 2012

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Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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