A035513 Wythoff array read by falling antidiagonals.

1, 2, 4, 3, 7, 6, 5, 11, 10, 9, 8, 18, 16, 15, 12, 13, 29, 26, 24, 20, 14, 21, 47, 42, 39, 32, 23, 17, 34, 76, 68, 63, 52, 37, 28, 19, 55, 123, 110, 102, 84, 60, 45, 31, 22, 89, 199, 178, 165, 136, 97, 73, 50, 36, 25, 144, 322, 288, 267, 220, 157, 118, 81, 58, 41, 27, 233, 521

Offset: 1

Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

• nonn
• tabl
• easy
• nice

Comments

T(0,0)=1, T(0,1)=2,...; y^2-x^2-xy

Inverse of sequence A064274 considered as a permutation of the nonnegative integers. - Howard A. Landman, Sep 25 2001

The Wythoff array W consists of all the Wythoff pairs (x(n),y(n)), where x=A000201 and y=A001950, so that W contains every positive integer exactly once. The differences T(i,2j+1)-T(i,2j) form the Wythoff difference array, A080164, which also contains every positive integer exactly once. - Clark Kimberling, Feb 08 2003

For n>2 the determinant of any n X n contiguous subarray of A035513 (as a square array) is 0. - Gerald McGarvey, Sep 18 2004

From Clark Kimberling, Nov 14 2007: (Start)

Except for initial terms in some cases:

(Row 1) = A000045

(Row 2) = A000032

(Row 3) = A006355

(Row 4) = A022086

(Row 5) = A022087

(Row 6) = A000285

(Row 7) = A022095

(Row 8) = A013655 (sum of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers)

(Row 9) = A022112

(Row 10-19) = A022113, A022120, A022121, A022379, A022130, A022382, A022088, A022136, A022137, A022089

(Row 20-28) = A022388, A022096, A022090, A022389, A022097, A022091, A022390, A022098, A022092

(Column 1) = A003622 = AA Wythoff sequence

(Column 2) = A035336 = BA Wythoff sequence

(Column 3) = A035337 = ABA Wythoff sequence

(Column 4) = A035338 = BBA Wythoff sequence

(Column 5) = A035339 = ABBA Wythoff sequence

(Column 6) = A035340 = BBBA Wythoff sequence

Main diagonal = A020941. (End)

The Wythoff array is the dispersion of the sequence given by floor(n*x+x-1), where x=(golden ratio). See A191426 for a discussion of dispersions. - Clark Kimberling, Jun 03 2011

If u and v are finite sets of numbers in a row of the Wythoff array such that (product of all the numbers in u) = (product of all the numbers in v), then u = v. See A160009 (row 1 products), A274286 (row 2), A274287 (row 3), A274288 (row 4). - Clark Kimberling, Jun 17 2016

All columns of the Wythoff array are compound Wythoff sequences. This follows from the main theorem in the 1972 paper by Carlitz, Scoville and Hoggatt. For an explicit expression see Theorem 10 in Kimberling's paper from 2008 in JIS. - Michel Dekking, Aug 31 2017

The Wythoff array can be viewed as an infinite graph over the set of nonnegative integers, built as follows: start with an empty graph; for all n = 0, 1, ..., create an edge between n and the sum of the degrees of all i < n. Finally, remove vertex 0. In the resulting graph, the connected components are chains and correspond to the rows of the Wythoff array. - Luc Rousseau, Sep 28 2017

Suppose that h < k are consecutive terms in a row of the Wythoff array. If k is in an even numbered column, then h = floor(k/tau); otherwise, h = -1 + floor(k/tau). - Clark Kimberling, Mar 05 2020

From Clark Kimberling, May 26 2020: (Start)

For k > = 0, column k shows the numbers m having F(k+1) as least term in the Zeckendorf representation of m. For n >= 1, let r(n,k) be the number of terms in column k that are <= n. Then n/r(n,k) = n/(F(k+1)*tau + F(k)*(n-1)), by Bottomley's formula, so that the limiting ratio is 1/(F(k+1)*tau + F(k)). Summing over all k gives Sum_{k>=0} 1/(F(k+1)*tau + F(k)) = 1. Thus, in the limiting sense:

38.19...% of the numbers m have least term 1;

23.60...% have least term 2;

14.58...% have least term 3;

9.01...% have least term 5, etc. (End)

Named after the Dutch mathematician Willem Abraham Wythoff (1865-1939). - Amiram Eldar, Jun 11 2021

From Clark Kimberling, Jun 04 2025: (Start)

Let u(n) = (T(n,1),T(n,2)) mod 2. The positive integers (A000027) are partitioned into 4 sets (sequences):

{n : u(n) = (0,0)} = (3, 5, 9, 15, 19, 25, 29,...) = 1 + 2*A190429

{n: u(n) = (0,1)} = (2, 6, 12, 16, 18, 22, 28,...) = A191331

{n : u(n) = (1,0)} = (1, 7, 11, 13, 17, 21, 23,...) = A086843

{n: u(n) = (1,1)} = (4, 8, 10, 14, 20, 24, 26,...) = A191330.

Let v(n) = (T(n,1),T(n,2)) mod 3. The positive integers are partitioned into 9 sets (sequences):

{n : v(n) = (0,0)} = (4, 13, 19, 28, 43, 52,...) = 1 + 3*A190434

{n: v(n) = (0,1)} = (3, 12, 27, 36, 42, 51,...) = 3*A140399

{n : v(n) = (0,2)} = (5, 11, 20, 35, 44, 50,...) = 2 + 3*A190439

{n: v(n) = (1,0)} = (9, 18, 24, 33, 48, 57,...) = 3*A140400

{n: v(n) = (1,1)} = (2, 8, 17, 26, 32, 41,...) = A384601

{n : v(n) = (1,2)} = (1, 10, 16, 25, 34, 40,...) = A384602

{n: v(n) = (2,0)} = (14, 23, 29, 38, 47, 53,...) = 2 + 3*A190438

{n: v(n) = (2,1)} = (7, 22, 31, 37, 46, 61,...) = 1 + 3*A190433

{n : v(n) = (2,2)} = (6, 15, 21, 30, 39, 45,...) = 3*A140398.

Conjecture: If m >= 2, then {(T(n,1), T(n,2)) mod m} has cardinality m^2. (End)

Examples

			The Wythoff array begins:
   1    2    3    5    8   13   21   34   55   89  144 ...
   4    7   11   18   29   47   76  123  199  322  521 ...
   6   10   16   26   42   68  110  178  288  466  754 ...
   9   15   24   39   63  102  165  267  432  699 1131 ...
  12   20   32   52   84  136  220  356  576  932 1508 ...
  14   23   37   60   97  157  254  411  665 1076 1741 ...
  17   28   45   73  118  191  309  500  809 1309 2118 ...
  19   31   50   81  131  212  343  555  898 1453 2351 ...
  22   36   58   94  152  246  398  644 1042 1686 2728 ...
  25   41   66  107  173  280  453  733 1186 1919 3105 ...
  27   44   71  115  186  301  487  788 1275 2063 3338 ...
  ...
The extended Wythoff array has two extra columns, giving the row number n and A000201(n), separated from the main array by a vertical bar:
0     1  |   1    2    3    5    8   13   21   34   55   89  144   ...
1     3  |   4    7   11   18   29   47   76  123  199  322  521   ...
2     4  |   6   10   16   26   42   68  110  178  288  466  754   ...
3     6  |   9   15   24   39   63  102  165  267  432  699 1131   ...
4     8  |  12   20   32   52   84  136  220  356  576  932 1508   ...
5     9  |  14   23   37   60   97  157  254  411  665 1076 1741   ...
6    11  |  17   28   45   73  118  191  309  500  809 1309 2118   ...
7    12  |  19   31   50   81  131  212  343  555  898 1453 2351   ...
8    14  |  22   36   58   94  152  246  398  644 1042 1686 2728   ...
9    16  |  25   41   66  107  173  280  453  733 1186 1919 3105   ...
10   17  |  27   44   71  115  186  301  487  788 1275 2063 3338   ...
11   19  |  30   49   79   ...
12   21  |  33   54   87   ...
13   22  |  35   57   92   ...
14   24  |  38   62   ...
15   25  |  40   65   ...
16   27  |  43   70   ...
17   29  |  46   75   ...
18   30  |  48   78   ...
19   32  |  51   83   ...
20   33  |  53   86   ...
21   35  |  56   91   ...
22   37  |  59   96   ...
23   38  |  61   99   ...
24   40  |  64   ...
25   42  |  67   ...
26   43  |  69   ...
27   45  |  72   ...
28   46  |  74   ...
29   48  |  77   ...
30   50  |  80   ...
31   51  |  82   ...
32   53  |  85   ...
33   55  |  88   ...
34   56  |  90   ...
35   58  |  93   ...
36   59  |  95   ...
37   61  |  98   ...
38   63  |     ...
   ...
Each row of the extended Wythoff array also satisfies the Fibonacci recurrence, and may be extended to the left using this recurrence backwards.
From _Peter Munn_, Jun 11 2021: (Start)
The Wythoff array appears to have the following relationship to the traditional Fibonacci rabbit breeding story, modified for simplicity to be a story of asexual reproduction.
Give each rabbit a number, 0 for the initial rabbit.
When a new round of rabbits is born, allocate consecutive numbers according to 2 rules (the opposite of many cultural rules for inheritance precedence): (1) newly born child of Rabbit 0 gets the next available number; (2) the descendants of a younger child of any given rabbit precede the descendants of an older child of the same rabbit.
Row n of the Wythoff array lists the children of Rabbit n (so Rabbit 0's children have the Fibonacci numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, ...). The generation tree below shows rabbits 0 to 20. It is modified so that each round of births appears on a row.
                                                                 0
                                                                 :
                                       ,-------------------------:
                                       :                         :
                       ,---------------:                         1
                       :               :                         :
              ,--------:               2               ,---------:
              :        :               :               :         :
        ,-----:        3         ,-----:         ,-----:         4
        :     :        :         :     :         :     :         :
     ,--:     5     ,--:     ,---:     6     ,---:     7     ,---:
     :  :     :     :  :     :   :     :     :   :     :     :   :
  ,--:  8  ,--:  ,--:  9  ,--:  10  ,--:  ,--:  11  ,--:  ,--:  12
  :  :  :  :  :  :  :  :  :  :   :  :  :  :  :   :  :  :  :  :   :
  : 13  :  : 14  : 15  :  : 16   :  : 17  : 18   :  : 19  : 20   :
The extended array's nontrivial extra column (A000201) gives the number that would have been allocated to the first child of Rabbit n, if Rabbit n (and only Rabbit n) had started breeding one round early.
(End)
		

References

• John H. Conway, Posting to Math Fun Mailing List, Nov 25 1996.
• Clark Kimberling, "Stolarsky interspersions," Ars Combinatoria 39 (1995) 129-138.

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..5151
• Peter G. Anderson, More Properties of the Zeckendorf Array, Fib. Quart. 52-5 (2014), 15-21.
• L. Carlitz, Richard Scoville, and V. E. Hoggatt, Jr., Fibonacci representations, Fib. Quart., Vol. 10, No. 1 (1972), pp. 1-28.
• Code Golf Stack Exchange, New Order #5: where Fibonacci and Beatty meet at Wythoff.
• J. H. Conway, Allan Wechsler, Marc LeBrun, Dan Hoey, and N. J. A. Sloane, On Kimberling Sums and Para-Fibonacci Sequences, Correspondence and Postings to Math-Fun Mailing List, Nov 1996 to Jan 1997.
• John Conway and Alex Ryba, The extra Fibonacci series and the Empire State Building, Math. Intelligencer, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2016), pp. 41-48.
• Larry Ericksen and Peter G. Anderson, Patterns in differences between rows in k-Zeckendorf arrays, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1 (February 2012), pp. 11-18. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jun 10 2012
• Clark Kimberling, Interspersions.
• Clark Kimberling, The Zeckendorf array equals the Wythoff array, Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1 (1995), pp. 3-8.
• Clark Kimberling, Complementary equations and Wythoff Sequences, JIS, Vol. 11 (2008), Article 08.3.3.
• Clark Kimberling, Lucas Representations of Positive Integers, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.9.5.
• Clark Kimberling and Kenneth B. Stolarsky, Slow Beatty sequences, devious convergence, and partitional divergence, Amer. Math. Monthly, 123, No. 2 (2016), pp. 267-273.
• Stéphane Legendre, Labeled Fibonacci Trees, Fibonacci Quart. 53 (2015), no. 2, 152-167.
• A. J. Macfarlane, On the fibbinary numbers and the Wythoff array, arXiv:2405.18128 [math.CO], 2024. See pages 1-2.
• Casey Mongoven, Sonification of multiple Fibonacci-related sequences, Annales Mathematicae et Informaticae, Vol. 41 (2013), pp. 175-192.
• N. J. A. Sloane, My favorite integer sequences, in Sequences and their Applications (Proceedings of SETA '98).
• N. J. A. Sloane, Classic Sequences
• Sam Vandervelde, On the divisibility of Fibonacci sequences by primes of index two, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3 (2012), pp. 207-216. See Figure 1.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Wythoff Array.
• Wikipedia, Wythoff array.
• Pedro Zanetti, C++ code snippet, for generating this sequence.
• Index entries for sequences that are permutations of the natural numbers

Crossrefs

See comments above for more cross-references.

Cf. A003622, A064274 (inverse), A083412 (transpose), A000201, A001950, A080164, A003603, A265650, A019586 (row that contains n).

For two versions of the extended Wythoff array, see A287869, A287870.

Programs

Maple

W:= proc(n,k) Digits:= 100; (Matrix([n, floor((1+sqrt(5))/2* (n+1))]). Matrix([[0,1], [1,1]])^(k+1))[1,2] end: seq(seq(W(n, d-n), n=0..d), d=0..10); # Alois P. Heinz, Aug 18 2008
A035513 := proc(r, c)
    option remember;
    if c = 1 then
        A003622(r) ;
    else
        A022342(1+procname(r, c-1)) ;
    end if;
end proc:
seq(seq(A035513(r,d-r),r=1..d-1),d=2..15) ; # R. J. Mathar, Jan 25 2015

Mathematica

W[n_, k_] := Fibonacci[k + 1] Floor[n*GoldenRatio] + (n - 1) Fibonacci[k]; Table[ W[n - k + 1, k], {n, 12}, {k, n, 1, -1}] // Flatten

PARI

T(n,k)=(n+sqrtint(5*n^2))\2*fibonacci(k+1) + (n-1)*fibonacci(k)
for(k=0,9,for(n=1,k, print1(T(n,k+1-n)", "))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 09 2016

Python

from sympy import fibonacci as F, sqrt
import math
tau = (sqrt(5) + 1)/2
def T(n, k): return F(k + 1)*int(math.floor(n*tau)) + F(k)*(n - 1)
for n in range(1, 11): print([T(k, n - k + 1) for k in range(1, n + 1)]) # Indranil Ghosh, Apr 23 2017

Python

from math import isqrt, comb
from gmpy2 import fib2
def A035513(n):
    a = (m:=isqrt(k:=n<<1))+(k>m*(m+1))
    x = n-comb(a,2)
    b, c = fib2(a-x+2)
    return b*(x+isqrt(5*x*x)>>1)+c*(x-1) # Chai Wah Wu, Jun 26 2025

Formula

T(n, k) = Fib(k+1)*floor[n*tau]+Fib(k)*(n-1) where tau = (sqrt(5)+1)/2 = A001622 and Fib(n) = A000045(n). - Henry Bottomley, Dec 10 2001

T(n,-1) = n-1. T(n,0) = floor(n*tau). T(n,k) = T(n,k-1) + T(n,k-2) for k>=1. - R. J. Mathar, Sep 03 2016

Extensions

Comments about the extended Wythoff array added by N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 07 2016

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