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A005513 Number of n-bead bracelets (turn over necklaces) with 6 red beads.
(Formerly M3311)
4
1, 1, 4, 7, 16, 26, 50, 76, 126, 185, 280, 392, 561, 756, 1032, 1353, 1782, 2277, 2920, 3652, 4576, 5626, 6916, 8372, 10133, 12103, 14448, 17063, 20128, 23528, 27474, 31824, 36822, 42315, 48564, 55404, 63133, 71554, 81004 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

6,3

COMMENTS

From Vladimir Shevelev, Apr 23 2011 (Start)

Also number of non-equivalent necklaces of 6 beads each of them painted by one of n colors.

The sequence solves the so-called Reis problem about convex k-gons in case k=6 (see our comment to A032279).

(End)

REFERENCES

S. J. Cyvin et al., Polygonal systems including the corannulene ... homologs ..., Z. Naturforsch., 52a (1997), 867-873.

H. Gupta, Enumeration of incongruent cyclic k-gons, Indian J. Pure and Appl. Math., 10 (1979), no.8, 964-999.

W. D. Hoskins and Anne Penfold Street, Twills on a given number of harnesses, J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. A 33 (1982), no. 1, 1-15.

V. Shevelev, Necklaces and convex k-gons, Indian J. Pure and Appl. Math., 35 (2004), no. 5, 629-638.

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

LINKS

F. Ruskey, Necklaces, Lyndon words, De Bruijn sequences, etc.

Index entries for sequences related to bracelets

V. Shevelev,Spectrum of permanent's values and its extremal magnitudes in Lambda_n^3 and Lambda_n(alpha,beta,gamma)(Cf. Section 5)

FORMULA

S. J. Cyvin et al. give a g.f.

G.f.: (x^6/12)*(1/(1-x)^6+4/(1-x^2)^3+2/(1-x^3)^2+3/((1-x)^2*(1-x^2)^2)+2/(1-x^6)). - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Feb 28 2007

G.f. x^6*(1-x+x^2+x^3+2*x^4+2*x^6+x^8-x^5) / ( (x^2-x+1)*(1+x+x^2)^2*(1+x)^3*(x-1)^6 ). - R. J. Mathar, Sep 18 2011

From Vladimir Shevelev (shevelev(AT)bgu.ac.il), Apr 23 2011: (Start)

if n==0 mod 6, a(n)=(24*C(n-1,5)+3*(n+1)*(n-2)*(n-4)+16*n)/288;

if n==3 mod 6, a(n)=(24*C(n-1,5)+3*(n-1)*(n-3)*(n-5)+16*n-48)/288;

if n==2,4 mod 6, a(n)=(8*C(n-1,5)+(n+1)*(n-2)*(n-4))/96;

if n==1,5 mod 6, a(n)=(8*C(n-1,5)+(n-1)*(n-3)*(n-5))/96.

(End)

MAPLE

A005513 := proc(n) if n mod 6 = 0 then (24*binomial(n-1, 5)+3*(n+1)*(n-2)*(n-4)+16*n)/288 elif n mod 6 = 3 then (24*binomial(n-1, 5)+3*(n-1)*(n-3)*(n-5)+16*n-48)/288 elif n mod 6 = 2 or n mod 6 = 4 then (8*binomial(n-1, 5)+(n+1)*(n-2)*(n-4))/96 elif n mod 6 = 1 or n mod 6 = 5 then (8*binomial(n-1, 5)+(n-1)*(n-3)*(n-5))/96 fi: end: seq(A005513(n), n=6..44); # [Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 11 2011]

MATHEMATICA

k = 6; Table[(Apply[Plus, Map[EulerPhi[ # ]Binomial[n/#, k/# ] &, Divisors[GCD[n, k]]]]/n + Binomial[If[OddQ[n], n - 1, n - If[OddQ[k], 2, 0]]/2, If[OddQ[k], k - 1, k]/2])/2, {n, k, 50}] - Robert A. Russell (russell(AT)post.harvard.edu), Sep 27 2004

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A054599 A095755 A164123 * A025619 A093210 A133600

Adjacent sequences:  A005510 A005511 A005512 * A005514 A005515 A005516

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Sequence extended and description corrected by Christian G. Bower (bowerc(AT)usa.net)

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