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In mathematics, a recurrence relation is an equation according to which the th term of a sequence of numbers is equal to some combination of the previous terms. Often, only previous terms of the sequence appear in the equation, for a parameter that is independent of ; this number is called the order of the relation.
In mathematics (including combinatorics, linear algebra, and dynamical systems), a linear recurrence with constant coefficients [1]: ch. 17 [2]: ch. 10 (also known as a linear recurrence relation or linear difference equation) sets equal to 0 a polynomial that is linear in the various iterates of a variable—that is, in the values of the elements of a sequence.
The master theorem always yields asymptotically tight bounds to recurrences from divide and conquer algorithms that partition an input into smaller subproblems of equal sizes, solve the subproblems recursively, and then combine the subproblem solutions to give a solution to the original problem.
If the {} and {} are constant and independent of the step index n, then the TTRR is a Linear recurrence with constant coefficients of order 2. Arguably the simplest, and most prominent, example for this case is the Fibonacci sequence , which has constant coefficients a n = b n = 1 {\displaystyle a_{n}=b_{n}=1} .
This characterization is because the order-linear recurrence relation can be understood as a proof of linear dependence between the sequences (+) = for =, …,. An extension of this argument shows that the order of the sequence is equal to the dimension of the sequence space generated by ( s n + r ) n = 0 ∞ {\displaystyle (s_{n+r})_{n=0 ...
A recurrence relation defines each term of a sequence in terms of the preceding terms. Recurrence relations may lead to previously unknown properties of a sequence, but generally closed-form expressions for the terms of a sequence are more desired.
In mathematics, the Lucas sequences (,) and (,) are certain constant-recursive integer sequences that satisfy the recurrence relation = where and are fixed integers.Any sequence satisfying this recurrence relation can be represented as a linear combination of the Lucas sequences (,) and (,).
Recurrence period density entropy, an information-theoretic method for summarising the recurrence properties of dynamical systems; Recurrence plot, a statistical plot that shows a pattern that re-occurs; Recurrence relation, an equation which defines a sequence recursively