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A027670 Number of different necklaces with 6 beads of n colors, allowing turning over. 3
0, 1, 13, 92, 430, 1505, 4291, 10528, 23052, 46185, 86185, 151756, 254618, 410137, 638015, 963040, 1415896, 2034033, 2862597, 3955420, 5376070, 7198961, 9510523, 12410432, 16012900, 20448025, 25863201 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

Number of ways to color vertices of a hexagon using <= n colors, allowing rotations and reflections.

Equivalently, the number of distinct hexagons that can be tiled using equilateral triangles of n different colors. - Lekraj Beedassy (blekraj(AT)yahoo.com), Dec 29 2007

REFERENCES

J. L. Fisher, Application-Oriented Algebra (1977) ISBN 0-7002-2504-8, circa p 215.

M. Gardner "New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American" (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1966), pages 245-246.

E. N. Gilbert and J. Riordan, Symmetry types of periodic sequences, Illinois J. Math., 5 (1961), 657-665.

J.-P. Delahaye, 'Le miraculeux "lemme de Burnside"' ; 'Groupes et orbites' pp 146-7 in 'Pour la Science' (French edition of 'Scientific American') No.350 December 2006 Paris.

LINKS

Index entries for sequences related to bracelets

Index entries for sequences related to linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (7,-21,35,-35,21,-7,1).

FORMULA

1/12*n*(n+1)*(n^4-n^3+4*n^2+2).

G.f.: x*(1+x)*(1+5*x+17*x^2+7*x^3)/(1-x)^7. [Colin Barker, Jan 29 2012]

MAPLE

A027670 := n-> (n^6+3*n^4+4*n^3+2*n^2+2*n)/12;

MATHEMATICA

(*First do*) Needs["Combinatorica`"] (*then*) Table[ CycleIndex[ DihedralGroup[6], t] /. Table[ t[i] -> n, {i, 1, 6}], {n, 0, 26}]

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=n*(n+1)*(n^4-n^3+4*n^2+2)/12 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Feb 24, 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A006565.

Sequence in context: A022578 A090020 A092469 * A055608 A038742 A005414

Adjacent sequences:  A027667 A027668 A027669 * A027671 A027672 A027673

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Alford Arnold (Alford1940(AT)aol.com)

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