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A generating function is a way of encoding an infinite sequence of numbers by treating them as the coefficients of a formal power series. Tag questions involving generating functions in this.
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Solving recursion / finding generating function of a probability mass function
I do not think it is possible to get a closed-form of either $f_n$ or $F_n$.
For brevity, let's rewrite your recurrence equation for the generating function $a_n:=F_n(x)$ as $a_n = q a_{n-1} + p a_{n …