The Structure of a Bernoulli Process Variation of the Fibonacci Sequence

Abstract

We consider the structure of a variation of the Fibonacci sequence which is determined by a Bernoulli process. The associated structure of all Bernoulli variations of the Fibonacci sequence can be represented by a directed binary tree, which we denote X, with vertex labels representing the specific state of the recurrence variation. Since X is a binary tree, we can consider the term of a sequence variation given by a finite traversal of X represented by a binary code t. We then prove that the traversal of X that is the reflection of the digits of t gives exactly the integer term corresponding to t. We consider how to further this result with the statement of an additional conjecture. Finally, we give connections to Fibonacci expansions, the Stern-Brocot tree, and we apply our methods to the Three Hat Problem as seen in ``Puzzle Corner'' of the ``Technology Review'' magazine.Comment: 22 pages, 1 figur