RUS  ENG
Full version
JOURNALS // Dal'nevostochnyi Matematicheskii Zhurnal // Archive

Dal'nevost. Mat. Zh., 2018 Volume 18, Number 2, Pages 183–188 (Mi dvmg379)

This article is cited in 3 papers

On the Somos-4 sequence

A. A. Illarionovab

a Khabarovsk Division of the Institute for Applied Mathematics, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
b Pacific National University, Khabarovsk

Abstract: In 2005 A.N.W. Hone has obtained an explicit formula for Somos-4 sequences in terms of the Weierstrass sigma function. The proof is valid only for sequences without zero terms. We prove that arbitrary sequence satisfying the Somos-4 equation is determined by the same formula iff it satisfies some determinant identity (analogue of the formula of addition). We give examples of sequences that satisfy the Somos-4 equation but do not satisfy the determinant identity.

Key words: Somos sequences, elliptic functions, addition theorems.

UDC: 517.52+512.742.72

MSC: Primary 11B37; Secondary 33E05

Received: 16.10.2018



© Steklov Math. Inst. of RAS, 2025