A classification of Markoff-Fibonacci m-triples

TL;DR

This paper classifies all solutions with Fibonacci components to a specific Markoff-Fibonacci equation, identifying exact solutions for certain m values and proving the existence of infinitely many m with unique solutions.

Contribution

It provides a complete classification of Fibonacci solutions to the Markoff-Fibonacci equation for all positive m, including explicit solutions and existence results.

Findings

For m=2, solutions are (1,F(b),F(b+2)) with even b.

For m=21, solutions are (1,2,8) and (2,2,13).

Infinitely many m have exactly one Fibonacci solution.

Abstract

We classify all solution triples with Fibonacci components to the equation $a^2+b^2+c^2=3abc+m,$ for positive $m$. We show that for $m=2$ they are precisely $(1,F(b),F(b+2))$, with even $b$; for $m=21$, there exist exactly two Fibonacci solutions $(1,2,8)$ and $(2,2,13)$ and for any other $m$ there exists at most one Fibonacci solution, which, in case it exists, is always minimal (i.e. it is a root of a Markoff tree). Moreover, we show that there is an infinite number of values of $m$ admitting exactly one such solution.