Identities for linear recursive sequences of order $ 2 $

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We present here a general rule of construction of identities for recursive sequences by using sequence transformation techniques developed in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b16">16</xref>]. Numerous identities are constructed, and many well known identities can be proved readily by using this unified rule. Various Catalan-like and Cassini-like identities are given for recursive number sequences and recursive polynomial sequences. Sets of identities for Diophantine quadruple are shown.</p>

Matrix Shanks Transformations

Shanks' transformation is a well know sequence transformation for accelerating the convergence of scalar sequences. It has been extended to the case of sequences of vectors and sequences of square matrices satisfying a linear difference equation with scalar coefficients. In this paper, a more general extension to the matrix case where the matrices can be rectangular and satisfy a difference equation with matrix coefficients is proposed and studied. In the particular case of square matrices, the new transformation can be recursively implemented by the matrix $\varepsilon$-algorithm of Wynn. Then, the transformation is related to matrix Pad\'{e}-type and Pad\'{e} approximants. Numerical experiments showing the interest of this transformation end the paper.