Fibonacci Chain Polynomials: Identities from Self-Similarity

Abstract

Fibonacci chains are special diatomic, harmonic chains with uniform nearest neighbour interaction and two kinds of atoms (mass-ratio $r$) arranged according to the self-similar binary Fibonacci sequence $ABAABABA...$, which is obtained by repeated substitution of $A\to AB$ and $B\to A$. The implications of the self-similarity of this sequence for the associated orthogonal polynomial system which govern these Fibonacci chains with fixed mass-ratio $r$ are studied.

6 pages LATEX including 1 fig., KA-TP-2-94 "Harmonic Oscillators II" talk, Cocoyoc, México, March 23-25, 1994