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A060223 Number of orbits of length n under the map whose periodic points are counted by A000670. 1
1, 1, 4, 18, 108, 778, 6756, 68220, 787472, 10224702, 147512052, 2340963570, 40527565260, 760095923082, 15352212731820, 332228417589720, 7668868648772700, 188085259069430744 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

REFERENCES

Yash Puri and Thomas Ward, A dynamical property unique to the Lucas sequence, Fibonacci Quarterly, Volume 39, Number 5 (November 2001), pp. 398-402.

LINKS

Y. Puri and T. Ward, Arithmetic and growth of periodic orbits, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 4 (2001), #01.2.1.

T. Ward, Exactly realizable sequences

FORMULA

If b(n) is the (n+1)-th term of A000670, then the n-th term is a(n) = (1/n)* Sum_{d|n}\mu(d)b(n/d)

EXAMPLE

a(5)=108 since the 6th term of A000670 is 541 and the 2nd term is 1, so there must be (541-1)/5 = 108 orbits of length 5.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000670.

Sequence in context: A007711 A020114 A009597 * A144085 A003708 A000986

Adjacent sequences:  A060220 A060221 A060222 * A060224 A060225 A060226

KEYWORD

easy,nonn

AUTHOR

Thomas Ward (t.ward(AT)uea.ac.uk), Mar 21 2001

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