On Pell numbers representable as product of two generalized Fibonacci numbers

TL;DR

This paper characterizes all Pell numbers that can be expressed as the product of two generalized Fibonacci numbers, extending previous results on Fibonacci and Pell sequence intersections.

Contribution

It provides a complete classification of Pell numbers that are products of two k-Fibonacci numbers, generalizing earlier specific cases.

Findings

Identifies all Pell numbers as products of two k-Fibonacci numbers.

Uses advanced number theory techniques including bounds for linear forms in logarithms.

Generalizes previous results on Fibonacci and Pell sequence intersections.

Abstract

A generalization of the well-known Fibonacci sequence is the $k$-Fibonacci sequence with some fixed integer $k\ge 2$. The first $k$ terms of this sequence are $0,0, \ldots, 1$, and each term afterwards is the sum of the preceding $k$ terms. In this paper, we find all Pell numbers that can be written as a product of two $k$-Fibonacci numbers. The proof of our main theorem uses lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms, properties of continued fractions, and a variation of a result of Dujella and Peth\H{o} in Diophantine approximation. This work generalizes a prior result of Alekseyev which dealt with determining the intersection of the Fibonacci and Pell sequences, a work of Ddamulira, Luca and Rakotomalala who searched for Pell numbers which are products of two Fibonacci numbers, and a result of Bravo, G\'omez, and Herrera, who found all Pell numbers appearing in the $k$-Fibonacci sequence.