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A remark about the positivity problem of fourth order linear recurrence sequences
Author(s) -
Vichian Laohakosol,
Pinthira Tangsupphathawat
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta et commentationes universitatis tartuensis de mathematica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2228-4699
pISSN - 1406-2283
DOI - 10.12697/acutm.2014.18.01
Subject(s) - mathematics , decidability , conjugate , order (exchange) , complex conjugate , integer (computer science) , combinatorics , value (mathematics) , root (linguistics) , pure mathematics , discrete mathematics , mathematical analysis , computer science , statistics , linguistics , philosophy , finance , economics , programming language
Consider a fourth order linear recurrence with integer coefficients whose characteristic polynomial has two distinct real and a complex conjugate pair of roots. A new proof showing that its positivity problem is decidable is given for the case where there is exactly one real root having the same absolute value as the two complex conjugate roots.

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