Tuesday, 16 June 2009

ca.analysis and odes - How to estimate the growth of a recurrence sequence

If we have a linear recurrence sequence where each term depends on all previous terms, say



an=sumn1k=0binomnkak,quada0=1



is there any way to estimate the growth of a_n in terms of a Big-O notation?



I suppose the growth must be super-exponential, because if a1,ldots,an1 grows exponentially, say, qi, then we have an=(q+1)nqn. Hence The exponent grows from q to q+1. But I am not sure if this serves as an argument.



Thanks!

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