A TILING APPROACH TO FIBONACCI p-NUMBERS

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce tiling representations of Fibonacci p-numbers, which are generalizations of the well-known Fibonacci and Narayana numbers, and generalized in the distance sense. We obtain Fibonacci p-numbers count the number of distinct ways to tile a 1 × n board using various 1 × r, r-ominoes from r = 1 up to r = p + 1. Moreover, the product identities and sum formulas of these numbers with special subscripts are given by tiling interpretations that allow the derivation of their properties.