OFFSET
0,2
REFERENCES
P. de la Harpe, Topics in Geometric Group Theory, Univ. Chicago Press, 2000, p. 160, middle display.
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..600
J. M. Alonso, Growth functions of amalgams, in Alperin, ed., Arboreal Group Theory, Springer, pp. 1-34, esp. p. 32.
Hacène Belbachir, Soumeya Merwa Tebtoub, László Németh, Ellipse Chains and Associated Sequences, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.8.5.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (34,-1).
FORMULA
From Colin Barker, Apr 16 2016: (Start)
a(n) = 3*((17+12*sqrt(2))^(1-n)*(-1+(17+12*sqrt(2))^(2*n)))/(48+34*sqrt(2)) for n>0.
a(n) = 34*a(n-1) - a(n-2) for n>2.
(End)
a(n) = (-(-1)^(2^n) + 3*sqrt(2)*sinh(n*log(17+12*sqrt(2))) + 1)/2. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Apr 16 2016
MATHEMATICA
CoefficientList[Series[(1+2*x+x^2)/(1-34*x+x^2), {x, 0, 20}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 14 2012 *)
LinearRecurrence[{34, -1}, {1, 36, 1224}, 20] (* Harvey P. Dale, Mar 29 2019 *)
PROG
(PARI) Vec((1+2*x+x^2)/(1-34*x+x^2)+O(x^99)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Sep 26 2012
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved