Identities for full-history Horadam sequences

Abstract

We prove a master identity for a class of sequences defined by full-history linear homogeneous recurrences with (non-negative) constant coefficients. The identity is derived in a combinatorial way, providing thus combinatorial proofs for many known and new identities obtained as its corollaries. In particular, we prove several interesting identities for the Pell, the Jacobsthal, and the m-nacci numbers.