OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Edgar-Peano substitution of 4 symbols taken 5 at a time: characteristic polynomial -x^5 + 5*x^3 + 5*x^2 - 25*x.
LINKS
F. M. Dekking, Recurrent sets, Advances in Mathematics, 44 (1982), 78-104.
G. A. Edgar and Jeffery Golds, A Fractal Dimension Estimate for a Graph-Directed IFS of Non-Similarities, arXiv:math/9806039 [math.CA], 1991
MATHEMATICA
s[1] = {1, 2, 2, 2, 1}; s[2] = {4, 3, 3, 3, 4}; s[3] = {2, 1, 1, 1, 2}; s[4] = {3, 4, 4, 4, 3}; s[5] = {} t[a_] := Flatten[s /@ a]; p[0] = {1}; p[1] = t[p[0]]; p[n_] := t[p[n - 1]]; aa = p[3]
PROG
(PARI) {a(n)=local(A); if(n<1, 0, A=[1]; while(length(A)<n, A=concat(vector(length(A), k, [1, 2, 2, 2, 1; 4, 3, 3, 3, 4; 2, 1, 1, 1, 2; 3, 4, 4, 4, 3][A[k], ]))); A[n])} /* Michael Somos, May 16 2005 */
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Roger L. Bagula, May 04 2005
STATUS
approved