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A052541 Expansion of 1/(1-3*x-x^3). 7

%I #41 Sep 08 2022 08:44:59

%S 1,3,9,28,87,270,838,2601,8073,25057,77772,241389,749224,2325444,

%T 7217721,22402387,69532605,215815536,669848995,2079079590,6453054306,

%U 20029011913,62166115329,192951400293,598883212792,1858815753705,5769398661408,17907079197016

%N Expansion of 1/(1-3*x-x^3).

%C A transform of A000244 under the mapping mapping g(x)->(1/(1-x^3))g(x/(1-x^3)). - _Paul Barry_, Oct 20 2004

%C a(n) equals the number of n-length words on {0,1,2,3} such that 0 appears only in a run which length is a multiple of 3. - _Milan Janjic_, Feb 17 2015

%H G. C. Greubel, <a href="/A052541/b052541.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>

%H INRIA Algorithms Project, <a href="http://ecs.inria.fr/services/structure?nbr=475">Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 475</a>

%H Milan Janjic, <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL19/Janjic/janjic73.html">Binomial Coefficients and Enumeration of Restricted Words</a>, Journal of Integer Sequences, 2016, Vol 19, #16.7.3

%H José L. Ramírez, Víctor F. Sirvent, <a href="http://ami.ektf.hu/uploads/papers/finalpdf/AMI_45_from91to105.pdf">A note on the k-Narayana sequence</a>, Annales Mathematicae et Informaticae, 45 (2015) pp. 91-105.

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_03">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (3,0,1).

%F G.f.: 1/(1 - 3*x - x^3).

%F a(n) = 3*a(n-1) + a(n-3), with a(0)=1, a(1)=3.

%F a(n) = Sum_{alpha = RootOf(-1+3*x+x^3)} (1/15)*(4 + alpha + 2*alpha^2) * alpha^(-n-1).

%F a(n) = Sum_{k=0..floor(n/3)} binomial(n-2*k, k) * 3^(n-3*k). - _Paul Barry_, Oct 20 2004

%p spec := [S,{S=Sequence(Union(Z,Z,Z,Prod(Z,Z,Z)))},unlabeled]: seq(combstruct[count](spec,size=n), n=0..30);

%t CoefficientList[Series[x/(1-3*x-x^3), {x, 0, 30}], x] (* _Zerinvary Lajos_, Mar 29 2007 *)

%t LinearRecurrence[{3,0,1},{1,3,9},30] (* _Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky_, Jan 28 2012 *)

%o (PARI) my(x='x+O('x^30)); Vec(x/(1-3*x-x^3)) \\ _G. C. Greubel_, May 09 2019

%o (Magma) R<x>:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), 30); Coefficients(R!( x/(1-3*x-x^3) )); // _G. C. Greubel_, May 09 2019

%o (Sage) (x/(1-3*x-x^3)).series(x, 30).coefficients(x, sparse=False) # _G. C. Greubel_, May 09 2019

%o (GAP) a:=[1,3,9];; for n in [4..30] do a[n]:=3*a[n-1]+a[n-3]; od; a; # _G. C. Greubel_, May 09 2019

%Y Cf. A076264.

%K easy,nonn

%O 0,2

%A encyclopedia(AT)pommard.inria.fr, Jan 25 2000

%E More terms from _James A. Sellers_, Jun 06 2000

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