OFFSET
0,2
REFERENCES
Gmelin Handbook of Inorg. and Organomet. Chem., 8th Ed., 1994, TYPIX search code (194) hP4.
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
R. W. Grosse-Kunstleve, Coordination Sequences and Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
R. W. Grosse-Kunstleve, G. O. Brunner and N. J. A. Sloane, Algebraic Description of Coordination Sequences and Exact Topological Densities for Zeolites, Acta Cryst., A52 (1996), pp. 879-889.
Sean A. Irvine, Generating Functions for Coordination Sequences of Zeolites, after Grosse-Kunstleve, Brunner, and Sloane
Reticular Chemistry Structure Resource, acs
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,0,-2,1).
FORMULA
a(0)=1, a(4n)=2*((6n)^2+1), a(4n+2)=18*(2n+1)^2+2, a(2n+1)=6*(3n^2+3n+1). - Ralf Stephan, Mar 07 2004
From Colin Barker, Aug 31 2013: (Start)
a(n) = (7+(-1)^n+18*n^2)/4 for n>0.
a(n) = 2*a(n-1)-2*a(n-3)+a(n-4) for n>4.
G.f.: -(x^4+4*x^3+8*x^2+4*x+1) / ((x-1)^3*(x+1)). (End)
MATHEMATICA
CoefficientList[Series[-(x^4 + 4 x^3 + 8 x^2 + 4 x + 1)/((x - 1)^3 (x + 1)), {x, 0, 50}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Oct 15 2013 *)
PROG
(PARI) Vec(-(x^4+4*x^3+8*x^2+4*x+1)/((x-1)^3*(x+1)) + O(x^100)) \\ Colin Barker, Aug 31 2013
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved