The polynomials obtained by setting
and
in the Lucas
polynomial sequence. (The corresponding
polynomials are called Lucas
polynomials.) They have explicit formula
(1)
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The Fibonacci polynomial is implemented in the Wolfram
Language as Fibonacci[n,
x].
The Fibonacci polynomials are defined by the recurrence relation
(2)
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with
and
.
The first few Fibonacci polynomials are
(3)
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(4)
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(5)
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(6)
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(7)
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(OEIS A049310).
The Fibonacci polynomials have generating function
(8)
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(9)
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(10)
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The Fibonacci polynomials are normalized so that
(11)
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where the s
are Fibonacci numbers.
is also given by the explicit sum formula
(12)
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where
is the floor function and
is a binomial coefficient.
The derivative of
is given by
(13)
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The Fibonacci polynomials have the divisibility property divides
iff
divides
. For prime
,
is an irreducible
polynomial. The zeros of
are
for
, ...,
. For prime
, these roots are
times the real part of the roots of the
th cyclotomic polynomial
(Koshy 2001, p. 462).
The identity
(14)
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for ,
3, ... and
a Chebyshev polynomial of the
second kind gives the identities
(15)
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(16)
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(17)
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(18)
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and so on, where
gives the sequence 4, 11, 29, ... (OEIS A002878).
The Fibonacci polynomials are related to the Morgan-Voyce polynomials by
(19)
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(20)
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(Swamy 1968).