OFFSET
0,6
LINKS
G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..2500
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,0,0,0,-1).
FORMULA
Euler transform of length 10 sequence [-1, 0, 0, 1, -1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 1].
a(n) = a(-n) for all n in Z. a(n+5) = -a(n) unless n = 0 or -5. a(5*n) = 2 * (-1)^n unless n = 0. a(5*n + 2) = a(5*n + 3) = 0. a(5*n + 1) = a(5*n - 1) = -(-1)^n.
G.f.: (1 - x) * (1 + x^4) / (1 + x^5).
G.f.: (1 - x) * (1 - x^5) * (1 - x^8) / ((1 - x^4) * (1 - x^10)).
Convolution inverse is A257179.
a(n) = (-1)^floor( (n+4) / 5) * A164116(n).
EXAMPLE
G.f. = 1 - x + x^4 - 2*x^5 + x^6 - x^9 + 2*x^10 - x^11 + x^14 - 2*x^15 + ...
MATHEMATICA
a[ n_] := -Boole[n == 0] + {-1, 0, 0, 1, -2, 1, 0, 0, -1, 2}[[Mod[n, 10, 1]]];
a[ n_] := SeriesCoefficient[ (1 - x) * (1 + x^4) / (1 + x^5), {x, 0, Abs@n}];
CoefficientList[Series[(1-x)*(1+x^4)/(1+x^5), {x, 0, nmax}], x] (* G. C. Greubel, Aug 02 2018 *)
PROG
(PARI) {a(n) = if( n==0, 1, (-1)^(n\5) * [2, -1, 0, 0, 1][n%5 + 1])};
(PARI) {a(n) = polcoeff( (1 - x) * (1 + x^4) / (1 + x^5) + x * O(x^abs(n)), abs(n))};
(PARI) x='x+O('x^60); Vec((1-x)*(1+x^4)/(1+x^5)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Aug 02 2018
(Magma) m:=60; R<x>:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), m); Coefficients(R!((1-x)*(1+x^4)/(1+x^5))); // G. C. Greubel, Aug 02 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
Michael Somos, Apr 17 2015
STATUS
approved