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A279725
Number of 3 X 3 matrices having all terms in {0,1,...,n} with |det| = 1.
1
0, 168, 2022, 15090, 53160, 196962, 409956, 1096368, 2062140, 4070796, 6674010, 12603174, 18410352, 31642836, 45306438
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
a(n) is always even.
a(n) mod 6 = 0.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Unimodular Matrix
EXAMPLE
For n=2, a few of the possible matrices are [0,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,0], [0,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1], [0,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,2], [1,0,0,0,1,1,2,0,1], [1,0,0,0,1,1,2,1,0], [1,0,0,0,1,1,2,1,2], [2,2,1,2,1,2,1,0,2], [2,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,0], [2,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,1], [2,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,0], .... There are 2022 possibilities.
Here each of the matrices is defined as M=[a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i] where a=M[1][1], b=M[1][2], c=M[1][3], d=M[2][1], e=M[2][2], f=M[2][3], g=M[3][1], h=M[3][2] and i=M[3][3].
So, for n=2, a(n)=2022.
CROSSREFS
Cf. A210000.
Sequence in context: A216107 A235932 A235926 * A234730 A234815 A232274
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Indranil Ghosh, Jan 04 2017
STATUS
approved