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A014448 Even Lucas numbers: L(3n). 8
2, 4, 18, 76, 322, 1364, 5778, 24476, 103682, 439204, 1860498, 7881196, 33385282, 141422324, 599074578, 2537720636, 10749957122, 45537549124, 192900153618, 817138163596, 3461452808002, 14662949395604, 62113250390418 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

REFERENCES

Michael Z. Spivey and Laura L. Steil, The k-Binomial Transforms and the Hankel Transform, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 9 (2006), Article 06.1.1.

LINKS

Index entries for sequences related to linear recurrences with constant coefficients

Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences

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

FORMULA

G.f.: (2-4*x)/(1-4*x-x^2); a(n)=4*a(n-1)+a(n-2), a(0)=2, a(1)=4; a(n)=(2+sqrt(5))^n + (2-sqrt(5))^n.

a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} C(n,k)*Lucas(n+k). [From Paul D. Hanna (pauldhanna(AT)juno.com), Oct 19 2010]

a(n)=Fibonacci(6*n)/Fibonacci(3*n), n>0,[From Gary Detlefs (gdetlefs(AT)aol.com) Dec 26 2010]

PROG

(PARI) polsym(x^2-4*x-1, 100)

(Other) sage: [lucas_number2(n, 4, -1) for n in xrange(0, 23)]# [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), May 14 2009]

(PARI) {a(n)=sum(k=0, n, binomial(n, k)*(fibonacci(n+k-1)+fibonacci(n+k+1)))} [From Paul D. Hanna (pauldhanna(AT)juno.com), Oct 19 2010]

(MAGMA) [ Lucas(3*n) : n in [0..100]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Apr 14 2011

CROSSREFS

A001077(n)=A014448(n)/2. A014448(n)=A000032(3n).

Sequence in context: A007727 A052689 A139104 * A075836 A120664 A095816

Adjacent sequences:  A014445 A014446 A014447 * A014449 A014450 A014451

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Mohammad K. Azarian (ma3(AT)evansville.edu)

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Erich Friedman (erich.friedman(AT)stetson.edu).

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