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A002895 Number of 2n-step polygons on diamond lattice.
(Formerly M3626 N1473)
4
1, 4, 28, 256, 2716, 31504, 387136, 4951552, 65218204, 878536624, 12046924528, 167595457792, 2359613230144, 33557651538688, 481365424895488, 6956365106016256, 101181938814289564, 1480129751586116848 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

a(n) is the (2n)th moment of the distance from the origin of a 4-step random walk in the plane - Peter M.W. Gill (peter.gill(AT)nott.ac.uk), Mar 03 2004

REFERENCES

David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, David Broadhurst and M. L. Glasser, Elliptic integral evaluations of Bessel moments, arXiv:0801.0891.

Jonathan M. Borwein and Armin Straub, Mahler measures, short walks and log-sine integrals, http://carma.newcastle.edu.au/~jb616/wmi-paper.pdf.

C. Domb, On the theory of cooperative phenomena in crystals, Advances in Phys., 9 (1960), 149-361.

J. A. Hendrickson, Jr., On the enumeration of rectangular (0,1)-matrices, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 51 (1995), 291-313.

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

Jonathan M. Borwein, Dirk Nuyens, Armin Straub and James Wan, Random Walk Integrals, 2010.

L. B. Richmond, J. Shallit, Counting Abelian Squares, arXiv:0807.5028 [Math.CO]. [From R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Oct 30 2008]

FORMULA

Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n, k)^2 binomial(2n-2k, n-k) binomial(2k, k).

n^3*a(n) = 2*(2*n-1)*(5*n^2-5*n+2)*a(n-1)-64*(n-1)^3*a(n-2). - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Jul 16 2004

Sum_{n>=0} a(n)*x^n/n!^2 = BesselI(0, 2*sqrt(x))^4. - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Aug 01 2006

G.f.: hypergeom([1/6, 1/3],[1],108*x^2/(1-4*x)^3)^2/(1-4*x)   - Mark van Hoeij, Oct 29 2011.

MATHEMATICA

Table[Sum[Binomial[n, k]^2 Binomial[2n-2k, n-k]Binomial[2k, k], {k, 0, n}], {n, 0, 30}] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Aug 15 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002893.

Sequence in context: A103211 A191801 A064340 * A141004 A152410 A177403

Adjacent sequences:  A002892 A002893 A002894 * A002896 A002897 A002898

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice,walk

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Mar 11 2003

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