OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Number of unoriented rows of length 14 using up to n colors. For a(0)=0, there are no rows using no colors. For a(1)=1, there is one row using that one color for all positions. For a(2)=8256, there are 2^14=16384 oriented arrangements of two colors. Of these, 2^7=128 are achiral. That leaves (16384-128)/2=8128 chiral pairs. Adding achiral and chiral, we get 8256. - Robert A. Russell, Nov 13 2018
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (15,-105,455,-1365,3003,-5005,6435,-6435,5005, -3003,1365,-455,105,-15,1).
FORMULA
From Wesley Ivan Hurt, Oct 30 2014: (Start)
G.f.: (x + 8241*x^2 + 2268843*x^3 + 99203675*x^4 + 1285873650*x^5 + 6421633938*x^6 + 13985577438*x^7 + 13985598654*x^8 + 6421628925*x^9 + 1285868525*x^10 + 99207111*x^11 + 2268471*x^12 + 8128*x^13)/(1 - x)^15.
a(n) = 15*a(n-1) - 105*a(n-2) + 455*a(n-3) - 1365*a(n-4) + 3003*a(n-5) - 5005*a(n-6) + 6435*a(n-7) - 6435*a(n-8) + 5005*a(n-9) - 3003*a(n-10) + 1365*a(n-11) - 455*a(n-12) + 105*a(n-13) - 15*a(n-14) + a(n-15).
From Robert A. Russell, Nov 13 2018: (Start)
G.f.: (Sum_{j=1..14} S2(14,j)*j!*x^j/(1-x)^(j+1) + Sum_{j=1..7} S2(7,j)*j!*x^j/(1-x)^(j+1)) / 2, where S2 is the Stirling subset number A008277.
G.f.: x*Sum_{k=0..13} A145882(14,k) * x^k / (1-x)^15.
E.g.f.: (Sum_{k=1..14} S2(14,k)*x^k + Sum_{k=1..7} S2(7,k)*x^k) * exp(x) / 2, where S2 is the Stirling subset number A008277.
For n>14, a(n) = Sum_{j=1..15} -binomial(j-16,j) * a(n-j). (End)
E.g.f.: x*(2+8254*x +789271*x^2 +10392095*x^3 +40075175*x^4 +63436394*x^5 +49329281*x^6 +20912320*x^7 +5135130*x^8 +752752*x^9 + 66066*x^10 +3367*x^11 +91*x^12 +x^13)*exp(x)/2. - G. C. Greubel, Nov 15 2018
MAPLE
MATHEMATICA
f[n_]:=Module[{c=n^7}, c (c+1)/2]; f/@Range[0, 30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Mar 19 2011 *)
PROG
(Magma) [n^7*(n^7+1)/2: n in [0..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 28 2011
(PARI) a(n)=n^7*(n^7+1)/2 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 28 2016
(Sage) [n^7*(1 + n^7)/2 for n in range(40)] # G. C. Greubel, Nov 15 2018
(GAP) List([0..30], n -> n^7*(1 + n^7)/2); # G. C. Greubel, Nov 15 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 11 2009
STATUS
approved