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%I #15 Sep 08 2024 19:25:24
%S 1,2,9,72,1296,52407,5240052,1314516033,853923545352,1457086698392796,
%T 6631460154689418828,81384300080656595328843,
%U 2719577128999047606509974434,249432083657086432899494832228657
%N a(n) = A005704( A037480(n) ) for n>0 with a(0)=1, where A005704 = number of partitions of 3n into powers of 3 and A037480(n) = n-th number having alternating base-3 digits 1, 2 (starting with '1').
%H Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A132843/b132843.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..40</a>
%F a(n) = A005704( (5*3^n + (-1)^n - 6)/8 ).
%e Let b(n) = A005704(n) = number of partitions of 3n into powers of 3,
%e then the initial terms of this sequence begin:
%e b(0), b(1), b(5), b(16), b(50), b(151), b(455), b(1366),...
%e APPLICATION: SPECIAL TERNARY TREE.
%e a(n) = number of nodes in generation n of the following tree.
%e Start at generation 0 with a single root node labeled [2].
%e From then on, each parent node [k] is attached k child nodes with
%e labels congruent to 2(mod 3) for even n, or 3(mod 3) for odd n,
%e within the range {1..3k}, for generation n >= 0.
%e The initial generations 0..3 of the tree begin as follows;
%e the path from the root node is given, followed by child nodes in [].
%e GEN.0: [2];
%e GEN.1: 2->[3,6];
%e GEN.2:
%e 2-3->[2,5,8]
%e 2-6->[2,5,8,11,14,17];
%e GEN.3:
%e 2-3-2->[3,6]
%e 2-3-5->[3,6,9,12,15]
%e 2-3-8->[3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24]
%e 2-6-2->[3,6]
%e 2-6-5->[3,6,9,12,15]
%e 2-6-8->[3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24]
%e 2-6-11->[3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33]
%e 2-6-14->[3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42]
%e 2-6-17->[3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42,45,48,51] .
%e Note: largest node label in generation n is A037480(n) + 1,
%e and the sum of the labels in generation n equals a(n+1).
%o (PARI) {A005704(n) = if(n<1, n==0, A005704(n\3) + A005704(n-1))}
%o {a(n) = A005704( (5*3^n + (-1)^n - 6)/8 )}
%Y Cf. A005704, A037480; variant: A132880.
%K nonn,base
%O 0,2
%A _Paul D. Hanna_, Sep 27 2007