OFFSET
0,9
COMMENTS
a(n) = 0 for n == 7 (mod 8).
LINKS
Robert Israel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..428
Vladimir Shevelev, Combinatorial identities generated by difference analogs of hyperbolic and trigonometric functions of order n, arXiv:1706.01454 [math.CO], 2017.
Wikipedia, Circulant matrix
MAPLE
seq(LinearAlgebra:-Determinant(Matrix(8, 8, shape=Circulant[seq(
(-1)^(j-1)*add((-1)^k*binomial(n, 8*k+j-1), k=0..n/8), j=1..8)])), n=0..20); # Robert Israel, Aug 11 2017
MATHEMATICA
ro[n_] := Table[(-1)^(j-1) Sum[(-1)^k*Binomial[n, 8k+j-1], {k, 0, n/8}], {j, 1, 8}];
M[n_] := Table[RotateRight[ro[n], m], {m, 0, 7}];
a[n_] := Det[M[n]];
Table[a[n], {n, 0, 20}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Aug 10 2018 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign
AUTHOR
Vladimir Shevelev and Peter J. C. Moses, Aug 05 2017
STATUS
approved