Several identities in the Catalan triangle

Zhizheng Zhang () and Bijun Pang
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Zhizheng Zhang: Luoyang Teachers’ College
Bijun Pang: Luoyang Teachers’ College

Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2010, vol. 41, issue 2, 363-378

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we first establish several identities for the alternating sums in the Catalan triangle whose (n, p) entry is defined by B n, p = $$ \tfrac{p} {n}\left( {_{n - p}^{2n} } \right) $$ . Second, we show that the Catalan triangle matrix C can be factorized by C = FY = ZF, where F is the Fibonacci matrix. From these formulas, some interesting identities involving B n, p and the Fibonacci numbers F n are given. As special cases, some new relationships between the well-known Catalan numbers C n and the Fibonacci numbers are obtained, for example: $$ C_n = F_{n + 1} + \sum\limits_{k = 3}^n {\left\{ {1 - \frac{{(k + 1)(k5 - 6)}} {{4(2k - 1)(2k - 3)}}} \right\}C_k F_{n - k + 1} } , $$ and $$ \begin{gathered} \frac{{n - 1}} {{n + 2}}C_n = \frac{1} {2}F_n + F_{n - 2} \hfill \\ + \sum\limits_{k = 4}^n {\left\{ {1 - \frac{{(k + 2)(5k^2 - 16k + 9)}} {{4(k - 1)(2k - 1)(2k - 3)}}} \right\}\frac{{k - 1}} {{k + 2}}C_k F_{n - k + 1} } . \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$

Keywords: Catalan triangle; Catalan number; sum; Fibonacci matrix; Fibonacci number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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