OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Number of dimensions for non-compact n-manifolds.
REFERENCES
Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar, eds., The Essential John Nash, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002, Chapter 11, page 207.
LINKS
Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
John Nash, The Imbedding Problem For Riemannian Manifolds, Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 63, No. 1, 1956, pp. 20-63.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,-6,4,-1).
FORMULA
From Colin Barker, Jan 28 2012: (Start)
a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - 6*a(n-2) + 4*a(n-3) - a(n-4).
G.f.: x*(14-5*x)/(1-x)^4. (End)
MATHEMATICA
Table[3/2n^3 + 7n^2 + 11/2n, {n, 1, 40}]
LinearRecurrence[{4, -6, 4, -1}, {14, 51, 120, 230}, 40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 06 2022 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = { n*(n + 1)*(3*n + 11)/2 } \\ Harry J. Smith, Jul 01 2009
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn,changed
AUTHOR
Jason Earls, Mar 10 2001
EXTENSIONS
Edited by Robert G. Wilson v, Mar 02 2002
STATUS
approved