OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
This is the number of ON cells in a certain two-dimensional cellular automaton in which the neighborhood of a cell is defined by f, and in which a cell is ON iff there were an odd number of ON cells in the neighborhood at the previous generation.
This is the odd-rule cellular automaton defined by OddRule 347 (see Ekhad-Sloane-Zeilberger "Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid" link).
LINKS
Shalosh B. Ekhad, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, A Meta-Algorithm for Creating Fast Algorithms for Counting ON Cells in Odd-Rule Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01796, 2015; see also the Accompanying Maple Package.
Shalosh B. Ekhad, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid, arXiv:1503.04249, 2015.
N. J. A. Sloane, On the No. of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, Video of talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Feb. 05 2015: Part 1, Part 2
N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168, 2015
FORMULA
This is the Run Length Transform of A253101.
EXAMPLE
Here is the neighborhood f:
[X, 0, X]
[X, 0, X]
[X, X, 0]
which contains a(1) = 6 ON cells.
MAPLE
C:=f->subs({x=1, y=1}, f);
# Find number of ON cells in CA for generations 0 thru M defined by rule
# that cell is ON iff number of ON cells in nbd at time n-1 was odd
# where nbd is defined by a polynomial or Laurent series f(x, y).
OddCA:=proc(f, M) global C; local n, a, i, f2, p;
f2:=simplify(expand(f)) mod 2;
a:=[]; p:=1;
for n from 0 to M do a:=[op(a), C(p)]; p:=expand(p*f2) mod 2; od:
lprint([seq(a[i], i=1..nops(a))]);
end;
f:=1/(x*y)+1/x+1/x*y+1/y+x+x*y;
OddCA(f, 130);
MATHEMATICA
(* f = A253101 *) f[n_] := 2*(2-Sqrt[3])^n + 2*(2+Sqrt[3])^n - 2^n // Round; Table[Times @@ (f[Length[#]]&) /@ Select[Split[IntegerDigits[n, 2]], #[[1]] == 1&], {n, 0, 63}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 12 2017 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane and Doron Zeilberger, Feb 19 2015
STATUS
approved