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A006497 a(n) = 3a(n-1) + a(n-2).
(Formerly M0910)
14
2, 3, 11, 36, 119, 393, 1298, 4287, 14159, 46764, 154451, 510117, 1684802, 5564523, 18378371, 60699636, 200477279, 662131473, 2186871698, 7222746567, 23855111399, 78788080764, 260219353691, 859446141837, 2838557779202 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

COMMENTS

Contribution from Johannes W. Meijer (meijgia(AT)hotmail.com), Jun 12 2010: (Start)

For more information about this type of recurrence follow the Khovanova link and see A086902 and A054413.

(End)

REFERENCES

A. F. Horadam, Generating identities for generalized Fibonacci and Lucas triples, Fib. Quart., 15 (1977), 289-292.

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

LINKS

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000

Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

Index entries for sequences related to linear recurrences with constant coefficients

Index entries for recurrences a(n) = k*a(n - 1) +/- a(n - 2)

Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.

FORMULA

a(n) = [(3 + sqrt13)/2]^n + [(3 - sqrt13)/2]^n; A006190(n-2) + A006190(n) = a(n-1); [a(n)]^2 - 13[A006190(n)]^2 = 4(-1)^n. - Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), Jun 15 2003

E.g.f. : 2exp(3x/2)cosh(sqrt(13)x/2); a(n)=2^(1-n)sum{k=0..floor(n/2), C(n, 2k)13^k3^(n-2k)}. a(n)=2T(n, 3i/2)(-i)^n with T(n, x) Chebyshev's polynomials of the first kind (see A053120) and i^2=-1. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Nov 15 2003

Comments from Hieronymus Fischer (Hieronymus.Fischer(AT)gmx.de), Jan 02 2009 (Start): fract(((3+sqrt(13))/2)^n))=(1/2)*(1+(-1)^n)-(-1)^n*((3+sqrt(13))/2)^(-n)=(1/2)*(1+(-1)^n)-((3-sqrt(13))/2)^n.

See A001622 for a general formula concerning the fractional parts of powers of numbers x>1, which suffice x-x^(-1)=floor(x).

a(n) = nint(((3+sqrt(13))/2)^n) for n>0. (End)

Contribution from Johannes W. Meijer (meijgia(AT)hotmail.com), Jun 12 2010: (Start)

a(2n+1) = 3*A097783(n), a(2n) = A057076(n).

a(3n+1) = A041018(5n), a(3n+2) = A041018(5n+3) and a(3n+3) = 2*A041018(5n+4).

Limit(a(n+k)/a(k), k=infinity) = (A006497(n) + A006190(n)*sqrt(13))/2.

Limit(A006497(n)/A006190(n), n=infinity) = sqrt(13).

(End)

MAPLE

A006497:=(-2+3*z)/(-1+3*z+z**2); [S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

MATHEMATICA

Table[LucasL[n, 3], {n, 0, 26}] [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 09 2009]

PROG

(Other) sage: [lucas_number2(n, 3, -1) for n in xrange(0, 25)]# [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Apr 30 2009]

(MAGMA) [ n eq 1 select 2 else n eq 2 select 3 else 3*Self(n-1)+Self(n-2): n in [1..40] ]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 20 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A006190.

Cf. A100230.

Cf. A001622, A014176, A080039, A098316.

Sequence in context: A062630 A159458 A057838 * A038912 A019361 A093804

Adjacent sequences:  A006494 A006495 A006496 * A006498 A006499 A006500

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Ray Chandler (rayjchandler(AT)sbcglobal.net), Feb 14 2004

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