I'm trying to find a function $f(x)$ such that the spacing between consecutive roots looks like the infinite Fibonacci word:
$1, \phi^{-1}, 1, 1, \phi^{-1}, 1, \phi^{-1}, 1, 1, \phi^{-1}, 1, 1, \phi^{-1}, \ldots$
If I'm not mistaken, any solution to the functional equation $f(x) = f(x / \phi) f(x / \phi^2 - 1)$ must have roots at the points that I want.
And I simply have no idea where to go from here.
How can I solve this functional equation?
Update. I've found that this one similar problem has an easy solution. Change the denominators of $\phi$ and $\phi^2$ both to $2$, so that we have the equation $g(x) = g(x/2) g(x/2 - 1)$. A change of variables gives us this equation:
$g(2x) = g(x) g(x - 2)$
Which differs from this double-angle formula only by scaling on the $x$-axis:
$\sin 2 \theta = \sin \theta \sin (\theta + \pi/2)$
Thus, we have the easy solution $g(x) = \sin (-\pi x / 4)$. It's not obvious how to apply this solution to the original problem, however.