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.