A Wythoff sequence is one of the two complementary Beatty sequences
where ,
is the golden
ratio, and
is the floor function. The lower Wythoff sequence
begins 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, ... (OEIS A000201),
and the upper Wythoff sequence begins 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26, ... (OEIS
A001950). The pairs
are the nonzero safe positions
of Wythoff's game, with the smaller heap first.
For a positive integer , let
count representations
with
. Ashburn (2026) proved that
iff
is twice a Fibonacci number
of value at least two, and
iff
is a Lucas number of value
at least seven. The previously known condition
is that
is a Fibonacci number
of value at least two. Ashburn (2026) supplies Walnut verification files and reports
Claude assistance with literature searches, computations, and drafting, with the
proofs and computations checked by the author.