The Golden Lattice: Three Products, One Lattice, and the Equation That Unifies Them

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Authors: Clifford Keeble
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Abstract

Three infinite products share the shape Π(1 − something)⁻¹ but differ in their atoms: the partition generating function runs over all positive integers, the Euler product runs over primes, and a Fibonacci product runs over Fibonacci numbers. We show that all three index sets arise as projections of the ring of integers ℤ[φ] in the golden field ℚ(√5): primes as norms of prime ideals, Fibonacci numbers as coordinates of the unit group, and all integers as the range of the norm map. We verify computationally (to N = 2000) the known result that the Fibonacci Euler function Π_k(1 − x^{F_k}) has all coefficients in {−1, 0, +1}, governed by Zeckendorf indices modulo 4 (Eğecioğlu, 2024). We observe that the Fibonacci numbers exhibit a perfect period-4 pattern within this function: F_k gives a nonzero coefficient when k ≡ 2 or 3 (mod 4) and zero when k ≡ 0 or 1 (mod 4). We identify the analytic class number formula for ℚ(√5) — specifically Res_{s=1} ζ_{ℚ(√5)}(s) = log(φ)/√5 — as the bridge connecting the multiplicative structure (primes, Euler product) to the additive structure (Fibonacci growth, golden conjugation). The product that unifies addition and multiplication at the golden field is not a product: it is the lattice ℤ[φ] itself, and the equation φ² = φ + 1, which places multiplication on the left and addition on the right.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Mathematical Identities Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications Analytic Number Theory Research

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
22 March 2026
Document type
Preprint