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A005314 For n = 0, 1, 2, a(n) = n; thereafter, a(n) = 2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3).
(Formerly M0709)
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%I M0709

%S 0,1,2,3,5,9,16,28,49,86,151,265,465,816,1432,2513,4410,7739,13581,

%T 23833,41824,73396,128801,226030,396655,696081,1221537,2143648,

%U 3761840,6601569,11584946,20330163,35676949,62608681,109870576,192809420,338356945,593775046

%N For n = 0, 1, 2, a(n) = n; thereafter, a(n) = 2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3).

%C Number of compositions of n into parts congruent to {1,2} mod 4. - _Vladeta Jovovic_, Mar 10 2005

%C a(n)/a(n-1) tends to 1.75487766625...; an eigenvalue of the matrix M and a root to the characteristic polynomial. - _Gary W. Adamson_, May 25 2007

%C Starting with offset 1 = INVERT transform of (1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0,...). [From Gary W. Adamson, May 04 2009]

%D R. L. Graham and N. J. A. Sloane, Anti-Hadamard matrices, Linear Alg. Applic., 62 (1984), 113-137.

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

%H T. D. Noe, <a href="/A005314/b005314.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n=0..400</a>

%H P. Chinn and S. Heubach, <a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/index.html">Integer Sequences Related to Compositions without 2's</a>, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 6, 2003.

%H INRIA Algorithms Project, <a href="http://algo.inria.fr/ecs/ecs?searchType=1&amp;service=Search&amp;searchTerms=426">Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 426</a>

%H _Simon Plouffe_, <a href="http://www.lacim.uqam.ca/%7Eplouffe/articles/MasterThesis.pdf">Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures</a>, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

%H _Simon Plouffe_, <a href="http://www.lacim.uqam.ca/%7Eplouffe/articles/FonctionsGeneratrices.pdf">1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures</a>, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_03">Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (2,-1,1)

%F G.f.: x/(1-2*x+x^2-x^3). a(n) = Sum_{k=0..[(2n-1)/3]} binomial(n-1-[k/2], k), where [x]=floor(x). - Paul D. Hanna, Oct 22 2004

%F a(n) = Sum [k=0..n, C(n-k, 2k+1) ].

%F 23*a_n = 3*P_{2n+2} + 7*P_{2n+1} - 2*P_{2n}, where P_n are the Perrin numbers, A001608. - D. E. Knuth, Dec 09 2008

%F G.f. (z-1)*(1+z**2)/(-1+2*z+z**3-z**2) for the augmented version 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 16, 28, 49, 86, 151,... was given in _Simon Plouffe_'s thesis of 1992.

%F a(n) = a(n-1)+a(n-2)+a(n-4) = a(n-2)+A049853(n-1) = a(n-1)+A005251(n) = sum_{i <= n} A005251(i).

%F a(n) = Sum(binomial(n-k, 2k+1), {k=0...(n-1)/3}) - Richard Ollerton (r.ollerton(AT)uws.edu.au), May 12 2004

%F M^n*[1,0,0] = [a(n-2), a(n-1), a]; where M = the 3 X 3 matrix [0,1,0; 0,0,1; 1,-1,2]. Example M^5*[1,0,0] = [3,5,9]. - _Gary W. Adamson_, May 25 2007

%F a(n) = A000931(2*n + 4). - _Michael Somos_, Sep 18 2012

%F a(n) = A077954(-n - 2). - _Michael Somos_, Sep 18 2012

%F G.f.: 1/( 1 - sum(k>=0, x*(x-x^2+x^3)^k ) ) - 1. [_Joerg Arndt_, Sep 30 2012]

%F G.f.: 1/x^5/(Q(0)-1) - (1-2*x-x^2+x^3+x^4)/x^6, where Q(k)= 1 + (k+1)*x/(1 - x - x*(1-x)/(x + (k+1)*(1-x)/Q(k+1))); (continued fraction). - _Sergei N. Gladkovskii_, Apr 24 2013

%e x + 2*x^2 + 3*x^3 + 5*x^4 + 9*x^5 + 16*x^6 + 28*x^7 + ...

%t LinearRecurrence[{2, -1, 1}, {0, 1, 2}, 100] (* From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jul 03 2011 *)

%o (PARI) a(n)=sum(k=0,(2*n-1)\3,binomial(n-1-k\2,k))

%o (Haskell)

%o a005314 n = a005314_list !! n

%o a005314_list = 0 : 1 : 2 : zipWith (+) a005314_list

%o (tail $ zipWith (-) (map (2 *) $ tail a005314_list) a005314_list)

%o -- _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Oct 14 2011

%o (PARI) {a(n) = if( n<0, polcoeff( x^2 / (1 - x + 2*x^2 - x^3) + x * O(x^-n), -n), polcoeff( x / (1 - 2*x + x^2 - x^3) + x * O(x^n), n)))} /* Michael Somos, Sep 18 2012 */

%Y Equals row sums of triangle A099557. - Paul D. Hanna, Oct 22 2004

%Y Cf. A099557, A005251.

%K nonn,changed

%O 0,3

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_.

%E More terms and additional formulae from _Henry Bottomley_, Jul 21 2000

%E Plouffe's g.f. edited by R. J. Mathar, May 12 2008

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