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A000803 a(n+3)=a(n+2)+a(n+1)+a(n)-4.
(Formerly M4472 N2232)
3
0, 0, 8, 4, 8, 16, 24, 44, 80, 144, 264, 484, 888, 1632, 3000, 5516, 10144, 18656, 34312, 63108, 116072, 213488, 392664, 722220, 1328368, 2443248, 4493832, 8265444, 15202520, 27961792, 51429752, 94594060, 173985600, 320009408 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

This sequence and A004306 coincide from the term "24" onwards. This follows easily by studying the two g.f.'s. - R. J. Mathar and A. Plewe, Dec 04 2007

REFERENCES

H. Beker and C. Mitchell, Permutations with restricted displacement, SIAM J. Algebraic Discr. Methods, 8 (1987), 338-363.

N. Metropolis et al., Permanents of cyclic (0,1) matrices, J. Combin. Theory, 7 (1969), 291-321.

H. Minc, Permanents of (0,1)-circulants, Canad. Math. Bull., 7 (1964), 253-263.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..400

Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,0,0,-1).

FORMULA

G.f. = -4x^2*(3x-2) /((x-1)(x^3+x^2+x-1)) = 2(-5x^2+1)/(x^3+x^2+x-1)-2/(x-1) . - R. J. Mathar, Dec 04 2007

PROG

(Haskell)

a000803 n = a000803_list !! n

a000803_list = 0 : 0 : 8 : zipWith (+)

               (tail $ zipWith (+) (tail a000803_list) a000803_list)

               (map (subtract 4) a000803_list)

-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 18 2011

(PARI) concat([0, 0], Vec((8-12*x)/(1-2*x+x^4)+O(x^97))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 18 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000804, A000805, A004306.

Sequence in context: A087015 A200224 A124012 * A198063 A093208 A155064

Adjacent sequences:  A000800 A000801 A000802 * A000804 A000805 A000806

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Mar 17 2000

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