
doi: 10.37236/1531
A set or sequence $U$ in the natural numbers is defined to be avoidable if ${\bf N}$ can be partitioned into two sets $A$ and $B$ such that no element of $U$ is the sum of two distinct elements of $A$ or of two distinct elements of $B$. In 1980, Hoggatt [5] studied the Tribonacci sequence $T=\{t_n\}$ where $t_1=1$, $t_2=1$, $t_3=2$, and $t_n=t_{n-1}+t_{n-2}+t_{n-3}$ for $n\ge 4$, and showed that it was avoidable. Dumitriu [3] continued this research, investigating Tribonacci sequences with arbitrary initial terms, and achieving partial results. In this paper we give a complete answer to the question of when a generalized Tribonacci sequence is avoidable.
Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers, avoidable set, Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations, additive partition
Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers, avoidable set, Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations, additive partition
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