OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Sinh(1) in 'reflected factorial' base is 1.01010101010101010101010101010101010101010101... see A073097 for cosh(1). - Robert G. Wilson v, May 04 2005
A non-principal character for the Dirichlet L-series modulo 8, see arXiv:1008.2547 and L-values Sum_{n >= 1} a(n)/n^s in eq (318) by Jolley. - R. J. Mathar, Oct 06 2011
Period 8: repeat [1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0]. - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Sep 07 2015
a(n) = (2^(2i+1)/n), where (k/n) is the Kronecker symbol and i >= 0. - A.H.M. Smeets, Jan 23 2018
REFERENCES
L. B. W. Jolley, Summation of series, Dover (1961).
LINKS
John M. Campbell, An Integral Representation of Kekulé Numbers, and Double Integrals Related to Smarandache Sequences, arXiv:1105.3399 [math.GM], 2011.
R. J. Mathar, Table of Dirichlet L-series..., arXiv:1008.2547 [math.NT], 2010, 2015, L(m=8,r=2,s).
Michael Somos, Rational Function Multiplicative Coefficients
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Kronecker Symbol
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,0,0,-1).
FORMULA
Euler transform of length 8 sequence [0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 1]. - Michael Somos, Jul 17 2009
a(n) is multiplicative with a(2^e) = 0^e, a(p^e) = 1 if p == 1, 7 (mod 8), a(p^e) = (-1)^e if p == 3, 5 (mod 8). - Michael Somos, Jul 17 2009
G.f.: x*(1 - x^2)/(1 + x^4). a(n) = -a(n + 4) = a(-n) for all n in Z. a(2*n) = 0. a(2*n + 1) = A087960(n). - Michael Somos, Apr 10 2011
a(n) = (2/n) = (n/2), Charles R Greathouse IV explained. - Alonso del Arte, Oct 31 2014
a(n) = (1 - (-1)^n)*(-1)^(n/4 - 1/8 - (-1)^n/8 + (-1)^((2*n + 1 - (-1)^n)/4)/4)/2. - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Sep 07 2015
From Jianing Song, Nov 14 2018: (Start)
a(n) = sqrt(2)*sin(Pi*n/2)*sin(Pi*n/4).
E.g.f.: sqrt(2)*cos(x/sqrt(2))*sinh(x/sqrt(2)).
Moebius transform of A035185.
a(n) = Sum_{i=1..n} (-1)^(i + floor((i-3)/4)). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Apr 27 2020
EXAMPLE
G.f. = x - x^3 - x^5 + x^7 + x^9 - x^11 - x^13 + x^15 + x^17 - x^19 - x^21 + ...
MAPLE
A091337:= n -> [0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1][(n mod 8)+1]: seq(A091337(n), n=1..100); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Sep 07 2015
MATHEMATICA
KroneckerSymbol[Range[100], 2] (* Alonso del Arte, Oct 30 2014 *)
PROG
(PARI) {a(n) = (n%2) * (-1)^((n+1)\4)}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 10 2005 */
(PARI) {a(n) = kronecker( 2, n)}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 10 2005 */
(PARI) {a(n) = [0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1][n%8 + 1]}; /* Michael Somos, Jul 17 2009 */
(Magma) [(n mod 2) * (-1)^((n+1) div 4) : n in [1..100]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Oct 31 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign,mult,easy
AUTHOR
Eric W. Weisstein, Dec 30 2003
STATUS
approved