On the x–coordinates of Pell equations which are k–generalized Fibonacci numbers.

For an integer k ≥ 2 , let { F n (k) } n ≥ 2 − k be the k –generalized Fibonacci sequence which starts with 0 , ... , 0 , 1 (a total of k terms) and for which each term afterwards is the sum of the k preceding terms. In this paper, for an integer d ≥ 2 which is square-free, we show that there is at most one value of the positive integer x participating in the Pell equation x 2 − d y 2 = ± 1 , which is a k –generalized Fibonacci number, with a couple of parametric exceptions which we completely characterize. This paper extends previous work from [18] for the case k = 2 and [17] for the case k = 3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]