
Patterns Within the Markov Tree
An analysis of the Markov tree is presented. Markov triplets, {x,R,z}, are the positive integer solutions to the Diophantine equation x2 + R2 + z2 = 3xRz. Inspired by patterns of the Fibonacci and Pell triplets in Region 1 and Region 2 of the tree, an investigation of interior regions of the Markov tree finds generating functions and sequence functions for all triplets of all regions. These sequence functions lead to the discovery of a Pell equation for the Markov region numbers along the edges…