OFFSET
1,9
COMMENTS
The sequence A001945 records the number of points of period n under a map. The number of orbits of length n for this map gives the sequence above.
LINKS
Manfred Einsiedler, Graham Everest and Thomas Ward, Primes in sequences associated to polynomials (after Lehmer), LMS J. Comput. Math. 3 (2000), 125-139.
Y. Puri and T. Ward, Arithmetic and growth of periodic orbits, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 4 (2001), #01.2.1.
Yash Puri and Thomas Ward, A dynamical property unique to the Lucas sequence, Fibonacci Quarterly, Volume 39, Number 5 (November 2001), pp. 398-402.
FORMULA
a(n) = (1/n)* Sum_{ d divides n } mu(d)*A001945(n/d).
EXAMPLE
u(17) = 8 since the map whose periodic points are counted by A001945 has 1 fixed point and 137 points of period 17, hence 8 orbits of length 7.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn,changed
AUTHOR
Thomas Ward, Mar 13 2001
STATUS
approved