OFFSET
0,2
REFERENCES
J. Riordan, Discordant permutations, Scripta Math., 20 (1954), 14-23.
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..1000
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
J. Riordan, Discordant permutations, Scripta Math., 20 (1954), 14-23. [Annotated scanned copy]
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (5,-8,2,6,-4,-1,1).
FORMULA
Riordan gives the g.f. (1+x)/[(1-x-x^2)^2*(1-x)^3].
MAPLE
A001925:=-(1+z)/(z**2+z-1)**2/(z-1)**3; # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
MATHEMATICA
nn = 40; CoefficientList[Series[(1 + x)/((1 - x - x^2)^2*(1 - x)^3), {x, 0, nn}], x] (* T. D. Noe, Aug 17 2012 *)
LinearRecurrence[{5, -8, 2, 6, -4, -1, 1}, {1, 6, 22, 64, 162, 374, 809}, 40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Oct 15 2021 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved