THE FIBONACCI-NORM OF A POSITIVE INTEGER: OBSERVATIONS AND CONJECTURES

Abstract

In this paper, we define the Fibonacci-norm [Formula: see text] of a natural number n to be the smallest integer k such that n|Fk, the kth Fibonacci number. We show that [Formula: see text] for m ≥ 5. Thus by analogy we say that a natural number n ≥ 5 is a local-Fibonacci-number whenever [Formula: see text]. We offer several conjectures concerning the distribution of local-Fibonacci-numbers. We show that [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] provided Fm+k ≡ Fm (mod n) for all natural numbers m, with k ≥ 1 the smallest natural number for which this is true.