OFFSET
0,5
COMMENTS
A q-deformation of the Pell numbers.
LINKS
Sophie Morier-Genoud and Valentin Ovsienko, q-deformed rationals and q-continued fractions, arXiv:1812.00170 [math.CO], 2018-2020. See Section 6.3.
Sophie Morier-Genoud and Valentin Ovsienko, Quantum real numbers and q-deformed Conway-Coxeter friezes, arXiv:2011.10809 [math.QA], 2020.
Wikipedia, Gaussian binomial coefficient
FORMULA
Coefficients of the polynomials defined by p(n) = p(n-2)*(4,2)_q - q^4*p(n-4) where (4,2)_q = 1+q+2*q^2+q^3+q^4, with p(0)=0, p(1)=1, p(2)=1+q, p(3)=1+q+2*q^2+q^3.
EXAMPLE
Triangle begins:
1
1 1
1 2 1 1
1 2 3 3 2 1
1 3 5 6 6 5 2 1
1 3 7 11 13 13 11 7 3 1
1 4 10 18 25 29 29 24 16 9 3 1
...
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,tabf
AUTHOR
Michael De Vlieger, Jan 23 2019
STATUS
approved