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A060446 Number of ways to color vertices of a pentagon using <= n colors, allowing rotations and reflections. 8

%I #18 Oct 21 2022 21:35:51

%S 0,1,8,39,136,377,888,1855,3536,6273,10504,16775,25752,38233,55160,

%T 77631,106912,144449,191880,251047,324008,413049,520696,649727,803184,

%U 984385,1196936,1444743,1732024,2063321,2443512,2877823

%N Number of ways to color vertices of a pentagon using <= n colors, allowing rotations and reflections.

%C a(n) is also the number of 5-cycles in the (n+4)-path complement graph, - _Eric W. Weisstein_, Apr 11 2018

%H Harry J. Smith, <a href="/A060446/b060446.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GraphCycle.html">Graph Cycle</a>

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PathComplementGraph.html">Path Complement Graph</a>

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_06">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (6,-15,20,-15,6,-1).

%F a(n) = (n^5+5*n^3+4*n)/10.

%F G.f.: x*(1+2*x+6*x^2+2*x^3+x^4)/(1-x)^6. - _Colin Barker_, Jan 29 2012

%F a(n) = 6*a(n-1) - 15*a(n-2) + 20*a(n-3) - 15*a(n-4) + 6*a(n-5) - a(n-6). - _Eric W. Weisstein_, Apr 11 2018

%t Table[n (n^2 + 1) (n^2 + 4)/10, {n, 0, 20}] (* _Eric W. Weisstein_, Apr 11 2018 *)

%t LinearRecurrence[{6, -15, 20, -15, 6, -1}, {1, 8, 39, 136, 377, 888}, {0, 20}] (* _Eric W. Weisstein_, Apr 11 2018 *)

%t CoefficientList[Series[x (1 + 2 x + 6 x^2 + 2 x^3 + x^4)/(-1 + x)^6, {x, 0, 20}], x] (* _Eric W. Weisstein_, Apr 11 2018 *)

%o (PARI) for (n=0, 1000, write("b060446.txt", n, " ", (n^5 + 5*n^3 + 4*n)/10); ) \\ _Harry J. Smith_, Jul 05 2009

%Y Cf. A054620.

%Y Cf. A000292 (3-cycle count of \bar P_{n+4}), A002817 (4-cycle count of \bar P_{n+4}), A302695 (6-cycle count of \bar P_{n+5}).

%K nonn,easy

%O 0,3

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_, Apr 07 2001

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