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Integers representable as differences of linear recurrence sequences.

Robert TichyIngrid VukusicDaodao YangVolker Ziegler
Published in: Research in number theory (2021)
Let { U n } n ≥ 0 and { V m } m ≥ 0 be two linear recurrence sequences. We establish an asymptotic formula for the number of integers c in the range [ - x , x ] which can be represented as differences U n - V m . In particular, the density of such integers is 0.
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