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A209116
Number of 4-bead necklaces labeled with numbers -n..n not allowing reversal, with sum zero and avoiding the patterns z z+1 z+2 and z z-1 z-2.
1
5, 22, 55, 120, 221, 362, 559, 816, 1137, 1538, 2023, 2596, 3273, 4058, 4955, 5980, 7137, 8430, 9875, 11476, 13237, 15174, 17291, 19592, 22093, 24798, 27711, 30848, 34213, 37810, 41655, 45752, 50105, 54730, 59631, 64812, 70289, 76066, 82147, 88548
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Row 4 of A209115.
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 3*a(n-1) - 3*a(n-2) + 2*a(n-3) - 3*a(n-4) + 3*a(n-5) - a(n-6).
Empirical g.f.: x*(5 + 7*x + 4*x^2 + 11*x^3 - 3*x^4) / ((1 - x)^4*(1 + x + x^2)). - Colin Barker, Jul 08 2018
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=6:
-2 -4 -5 -4 -4 -6 -3 -6 -5 -6 -4 -5 -6 -5 -5 -6
0 1 6 2 -1 4 -2 6 -5 -3 0 5 1 -5 1 6
-1 1 -2 1 4 -3 1 3 6 3 3 1 0 5 5 -1
3 2 1 1 1 5 4 -3 4 6 1 -1 5 5 -1 1
CROSSREFS
Cf. A209115.
Sequence in context: A272824 A373110 A273677 * A301499 A033445 A208946
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Mar 05 2012
STATUS
approved