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On the Fibonacci Length of Powers of Dihedral Groups

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Applications of Fibonacci Numbers

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The idea of forming a sequence of group elements based on a Fibonacci-like recurrence relation was initially introduced by Wall in [14] and later developed by other authors, see [1], [7], [16].

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Campbell, C.M., Campbell, P.P., Doostie, H., Robertson, E.F. (2004). On the Fibonacci Length of Powers of Dihedral Groups. In: Howard, F.T. (eds) Applications of Fibonacci Numbers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48517-6_9

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