OFFSET
0,3
LINKS
OEIS Wiki, Figurate numbers
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pyramidal Number
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (-3,-2,2,3,1).
FORMULA
G.f.: x*(1 - 5*x)/((x - 1)*(x + 1)^4).
a(n) = ((2*n^3 + 4*n^2 - 1)*(-1)^n + 1)/4.
a(n) = Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^k*A002414(k).
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = -0.906890389180715042293808708467278316660747358... . - Vaclav Kotesovec, Feb 26 2016
MATHEMATICA
Table[((2 n^3 + 4 n^2 - 1) (-1)^n + 1)/4, {n, 0, 40}]
LinearRecurrence[{-3, -2, 2, 3, 1}, {0, -1, 8, -22, 48}, 41]
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=(2*n^3 + 4*n^2 - 1)*(-1)^n\/4 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 26 2016
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
Ilya Gutkovskiy, Feb 26 2016
STATUS
approved