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AN IMPROVEMENT TO A THEOREM OF LEONETTI AND LUCA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2023
Abstract
Leonetti and Luca [‘On the iterates of the shifted Euler’s function’, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc., to appear] have shown that the integer sequence $(x_n)_{n\geq 1}$ defined by
$x_{n+2}=\phi (x_{n+1})+\phi (x_{n})+k$, where
$x_1,x_2\geq 1$,
$k\geq 0$ and
$2 \mid k$, is bounded by
$4^{X^{3^{k+1}}}$, where
$X=(3x_1+5x_2+7k)/2$. We improve this result by showing that the sequence
$(x_n)$ is bounded by
$2^{2X^2+X-3}$, where
$X=x_1+x_2+2k$.
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- © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.
Footnotes
Nguyen Xuan Tho is funded by the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training under the project number B2022-CTT-03.
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