OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Also known as the kgd net.
This is one of the Laves tilings.
LINKS
Robert Israel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
Tom Karzes, Tiling Coordination Sequences
Reticular Chemistry Structure Resource (RCSR), The kgd tiling (or net)
N. J. A. Sloane, Overview of coordination sequences of Laves tilings [Fig. 2.7.1 of Grünbaum-Shephard 1987 with A-numbers added and in some cases the name in the RCSR database]
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,2,0,-1).
FORMULA
a(0)=1; a(2*k) = 12*k, a(2*k+1) = 6*k+3.
G.f.: 1 + 3*x*(x^2+4*x+1)/(1-x^2)^2. - Robert Israel, Jan 21 2018
a(n) = 3*A022998(n), n>0. - R. J. Mathar, Jan 29 2018
MAPLE
f3:=proc(n) if n=0 then 1 elif (n mod 2) = 0 then 6*n else 3*n; fi; end;
[seq(f3(n), n=0..80)];
MATHEMATICA
Join[{1}, LinearRecurrence[{0, 2, 0, -1}, {3, 12, 9, 24}, 80]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 23 2020 *)
CROSSREFS
If the initial 1 is changed to 0 we get A165988 (but we need both sequences, just as we have both A008574 and A008586).
List of coordination sequences for Laves tilings (or duals of uniform planar nets): [3,3,3,3,3.3] = A008486; [3.3.3.3.6] = A298014, A298015, A298016; [3.3.3.4.4] = A298022, A298024; [3.3.4.3.4] = A008574, A296368; [3.6.3.6] = A298026, A298028; [3.4.6.4] = A298029, A298031, A298033; [3.12.12] = A019557, A298035; [4.4.4.4] = A008574; [4.6.12] = A298036, A298038, A298040; [4.8.8] = A022144, A234275; [6.6.6] = A008458.
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 21 2018
STATUS
approved