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A005993 G.f.: (1+x^2)/((1-x)^2*(1-x^2)^2).
(Formerly M1576)
20
1, 2, 6, 10, 19, 28, 44, 60, 85, 110, 146, 182, 231, 280, 344, 408, 489, 570, 670, 770, 891, 1012, 1156, 1300, 1469, 1638, 1834, 2030, 2255, 2480, 2736, 2992, 3281, 3570, 3894, 4218, 4579, 4940, 5340, 5740, 6181, 6622, 7106, 7590, 8119 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Alkane (or paraffin) numbers l(6,n).

Also multidigraphs with loops on 2 nodes with n arcs. - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Dec 27 1999

Euler transform of finite sequence [2,3,0,-1]. - Michael Somos Mar 17 2004

a(n-2) is the number of plane partitions with trace 2. - Michael Somos Mar 17 2004

With offset 4, a(n) is the number of bracelets with n beads, 3 of which are red, 1 of which is blue. For odd n, a(n) = C(n-1,3)/2. For even n, a(n) = C(n-1,3)/2 +(n-2)/4. For n >= 6, with K = (n-1)(n-2)/((n-5)(n-4)), for odd n, a(n) = K*a(n-2). For even n, a(n) = K*a(n-2) -(n-2)/(n-5). - Washington Bomfim, Aug 05 2008

Equals (1,2,3,4...) convolved with (1,0,3,0,5,...). - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 16 2009

Equals row sums of triangle A177878.

Equals (1/2)*((1, 4, 10, 20, 35, 56,...) + (1, 0, 2 0, 3, 0, 4,...)).

REFERENCES

S. M. Losanitsch, Die Isomerie-Arten bei den Homologen der Paraffin-Reihe, Chem. Ber. 30 (1897), 1917-1926.

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

L. Smith, Polynomial Invariants of Finite Groups, A K Peters, 1995, p. 96.

L. Smith, Polynomial invariants of finite groups. A survey of recent developments. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 34 (1997), no. 3, 211-250. See page 218. MR1433171 (98i:13009)

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..1000

Washington Bomfim, The 19 bracelets with 8 beads - one blue, three reds and four blacks. [From Washington Bomfim (webonfim(AT)bol.com.br), Aug 05 2008]

Dragomir Z. Djokovic, Poincare series of some pure and mixed trace algebras of two generic matrices. See Table 8.

N. J. A. Sloane, Classic Sequences

Index entries for sequences related to linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,1,-4,1,2,-1).

FORMULA

l(c, r) = 1/2 C(c+r-3, r) + 1/2 d(c, r), where d(c, r) is C((c + r - 3)/2, r/2) if c is odd and r is even, 0 if c is even and r is odd, C((c + r - 4)/2, r/2) if c is even and r is even, C((c + r - 4)/2, (r - 1)/2) if c is odd and r is odd.

Dimension of the space of homogeneous degree n polynomials in (x1, y1, x2, y2) invariant under permutation of variables x1<->y1, x2<->y2.

G.f.: (1+x^2)/((1-x)^2*(1-x^2)^2) = (1+x^2) / ((1+x)^2*(x-1)^4) = (1/(1-x)^4 +1/(1-x^2)^2)/2.

a(2n)=(n+1)(2n^2+4n+3)/3, a(2n+1)=(n+1)(n+2)(2n+3)/3. a(-4-n)=-a(n).

Contribution from Yosu Yurramendi (yosu.yurramendi(AT)ehu.es), Sep 12 2008: (Start)

a(n+1)= a(n) + A008794(n+3) with a(1)=1

a(n)= A027656 (n) + 2*A006918 (n)

a(n+2)= a(n) + A000982 (n+2) with a(1)=1, a(2)=2

(End)

a(n)=2a(n-1)+a(n-2)-4a(n-3)+a(n-4)+2a(n-5)-a(n-6) [From Jaume Oliver Lafont (joliverlafont(AT)gmail.com), Dec 05 2008]

EXAMPLE

a(2)=6 since ( x1*y1, x2*y2, x1*x1+y1*y1, x2*x2+y2*y2, x1*x2+y1*y2, x1*y2+x2*y1 ) are a basis for homogeneous quadratic invariant polynomials.

MAPLE

g := proc(n) local i; add(floor(i/2)^2, i=1..n+1) end: # Joseph S. Riel (joer(AT)k-online.com), Mar 22 2002

a:= n-> (Matrix([[1, 0$3, -1, -2]]).Matrix(6, (i, j)-> if (i=j-1) then 1 elif j=1 then [2, 1, -4, 1, 2, -1][i] else 0 fi)^n)[1, 1]; seq (a(n), n=0..44); # Alois P. Heinz, Jul 31 2008

MATHEMATICA

CoefficientList[Series[(1+x^2)/((1-x)^2*(1-x^2)^2), {x, 0, 44}], x]  (* From Jean-François Alcover, Apr 8 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=polcoeff((1+x^2)/(1-x)^2/(1-x^2)^2+x*O(x^n), n)

(PARI) a(n) = (binomial(n+3, n) + (1-n%2)*binomial((n+2)/2, n>>1))/2. [From Washington Bomfim, Aug 05 2008]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A177878.

Sequence in context: A054273 A127567 A169643 * A028247 A065054 A128165

Adjacent sequences:  A005990 A005991 A005992 * A005994 A005995 A005996

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Winston C. Yang (yang(AT)math.wisc.edu)

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