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A047849 (4^n+2)/3. 26
1, 2, 6, 22, 86, 342, 1366, 5462, 21846, 87382, 349526, 1398102, 5592406, 22369622, 89478486, 357913942, 1431655766, 5726623062, 22906492246, 91625968982, 366503875926, 1466015503702, 5864062014806, 23456248059222 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Counts closed walks of length 2n at a vertex of the cyclic graph on 6 nodes C_6. - Paul Barry, Mar 10 2004

The number of closed walks of odd length of the cyclic graph is zero. See the array w(N,L) and triangle a(K,N) given in A199571 for the general case. - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 08 2011

A. A. Ivanov conjectures that the dimension of the universal embedding of the unitary dual polar space DSU(2n,4) is a(n). - J. Taylor (jt_cpp(AT)yahoo.com), Apr 02 2004.

Permutations with two fixed points avoiding 123 and 132.

Related to A024495(6n), A131708(6n+2), A024493(6n+4). First differences give A000302. - Paul Curtz, Mar 25 2008

Also the number of permutations of length n which avoid 4321 and 4123 (or 4321 and 3412, or 4123 and 3142, or 4123 and 2143). [From Vincent Vatter, Aug 17 2009]

This sequence is related to A014916 by A014916(n) = n*a(n)-sum(a(i), i=0..n-1). - Bruno Berselli, Jul 27 2010, Mar 02 2012

For n>=2, a(n) equals 2^n times the permanent of the (2n-2)X(2n-2) tridiagonal matrix with 1/sqrt(2)'s along the main diagonal, and 1's along the superdiagonal and the subdiagonal. [From John M. Campbell, Jul 08 2011]

LINKS

B. Berselli, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000.

B. Berselli, A description of the recursive method in Comments lines: website Matem@ticamente (in Italian).

B. N. Cooperstein and E. E. Shult, A note on embedding and generating dual polar spaces. Adv. Geom. 1 (2001), 37-48. See Conjecture 5.5.

Kremer, D. and Shiu, W. C. Finite transition matrices for permutations avoiding pairs of length four patterns, Discrete Mathematics 268 (2003), 171-183.

T. Mansour and A. Robertson, Refined restricted permutations..., arXiv:math.CO/0204005

Wikipedia, Permutation classes avoiding two patterns of length 4.

Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (5,-4).

FORMULA

a(n) = (4^n+2)/3 = 4*a(n-1)-2 = 5*a(n-1)-4*a(n-2) = 2*A007583(n-1) = A002450(n)+1. - Henry Bottomley, Aug 29 2000

a(n) = T(1,n), array T given by A047848.

With interpolated zeros, this is (-2)^n/6+2^n/6+(-1)^n/3+1/3. - Paul Barry, Aug 26 2003

a(n) = A007583(n) - A002450(n) = A001045(2n+1) - A001045(2n) . - Philippe Deléham, Feb 25 2004

Second binomial transform of A078008. Binomial transform of 1, 1, 3, 9, 81, .. (3^n/3+2*0^n/3). a(n) = A078008(2n). - Paul Barry, Mar 14 2004

G.f.: (1-3*x)/((1-x)*(1-4*x)) - Herbert Kociemba, Jun 06 2004

a(n) = Sum_{k, 0<=k<=n} 2^k*A121314(n,k) . - Philippe DELEHAM, Sep 15 2006

a(n) = A002450(n)+1 - Artur Jasinski, Jan 29 2007

a(n) = (A001045(2n+1)+1)/2. - Paul Barry, Dec 05 2007

Contribution from Bruno Berselli, Jul 27 2010: (Start)

a(n) = A020988(n)/2+1 = A039301(n+1)/2.

Sum(a(i), i=0..n) = A073724(n). (End)

n-th difference of a(n), a(n-1), ..., a(0) is 3^(n-1) for n>=1

For n>=3, a(n) equals [2, 1, 1; 1, 2, 1; 1, 1, 2]^(n - 2)*{1, 1, 2}*{1, 1, 2} [From John M. Campbell, Jul 09 2011]

EXAMPLE

Cf. A014916, A073724, A020988, A039301. [From Bruno Berselli, Jul 27 2010]

a(2) = 6 for the number of round trips in C_6 from the six round trips from, say, vertex no. 1: 12121, 16161, 12161, 16121, 12321 and 16561. - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 08 2011

MATHEMATICA

a = {}; k = 1; Do[k = k + 2^(2x); AppendTo[a, k], {x, 0, 100}]; a - Artur Jasinski, Jan 29 2007

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=(4^n+2)/3

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002450.

Sequence in context: A107245 A107246 A107247 * A150256 A150257 A150258

Adjacent sequences:  A047846 A047847 A047848 * A047850 A047851 A047852

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,changed

AUTHOR

Clark Kimberling

EXTENSIONS

New name from Charles R Greathouse IV, Dec 22 2011

STATUS

approved

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