OFFSET
0,4
LINKS
Michael De Vlieger, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..800
Elżbieta Liszewska, Wojciech Młotkowski, Some relatives of the Catalan sequence, arXiv:1907.10725 [math.CO], 2019.
FORMULA
a(n) = Sum_{j=0..(n-1)/2} (-1)^j*binomial(n-2*j-1, j)*binomial(2*n-2*j-2, n-1)/n, a(0)=0. - Vladimir Kruchinin, Oct 11 2011
D-finite with recurrence 391*n*(n-1)*(n-2)*a(n) -8*(n-1)*(n-2)*(203*n -132)*a(n-1) -4*(n-2)*(224*n^2 -2816*n +5697)*a(n-2) +8*(928*n^3 -7920*n^2 +22682*n-21915)*a(n-3) +192*(4*n-15) *(2*n-7)*(4*n-17)*a(n-4)=0, n-4>=1 - R. J. Mathar, Mar 24 2023
MATHEMATICA
CoefficientList[InverseSeries[Series[y - y^2 + y^4, {y, 0, 30}], x], x]
PROG
(Maxima)
a(n):=sum((-1)^j*binomial(n-2*j-1, j)*binomial(2*n-2*j-2, n-1), j, 0, (n-1)/2)/n; /* Vladimir Kruchinin, Oct 11 2011 */
(PARI) concat(0, Vec(serreverse(y - y^2 + y^4 + O(y^10)))) \\ Michel Marcus, Jun 28 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
Olivier Gérard, Jul 05 2001
STATUS
approved