Melham's Conjecture on Odd Power Sums of Fibonacci Numbers
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fibonaccinumbersorderpolynomialconjectureconsecutivefirstmelham
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Ozeki and Prodinger showed that the odd power sum of the first several consecutive Fibonacci numbers of even order is equal to a polynomial evaluated at certain Fibonacci number of odd order. We prove that this polynomial and its derivative both vanish at $1$, and will be an integer polynomial after multiplying it by a product of the first consecutive Lucas numbers of odd order. This presents an affirmative answer to a conjecture of Melham.
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