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A344351
Number of squarefree numbers along the main diagonal of an n X n square array whose elements are the numbers from 1..n^2, listed in increasing order by rows.
0
1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 8, 6, 8, 8, 11, 9, 12, 10, 16, 12, 15, 14, 17, 14, 16, 16, 21, 18, 23, 16, 26, 18, 25, 22, 28, 21, 31, 23, 29, 26, 30, 26, 37, 27, 34, 31, 37, 28, 39, 30, 43, 36, 42, 31, 49, 35, 43, 39, 47, 35, 52, 34, 49, 43, 52, 41, 59, 40, 58, 47, 58, 44, 62, 44, 60
OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Number of squarefree numbers along the main diagonal of an n X n square array whose elements are the numbers from 1..n^2, listed in increasing order by rows.
FORMULA
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} mu(n*k-n+k)^2, where mu is the Möbius function.
EXAMPLE
[1 2 3 4 5]
[1 2 3 4] [6 7 8 9 10]
[1 2 3] [5 6 7 8] [11 12 13 14 15]
[1 2] [4 5 6] [9 10 11 12] [16 17 18 19 20]
[1] [3 4] [7 8 9] [13 14 15 16] [21 22 23 24 25]
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n 1 2 3 4 5
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a(n) 1 1 2 3 4
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numbers {1} {1} {1,5} {1,6,11} {1,7,13,19}
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MATHEMATICA
Table[Sum[MoebiusMu[n*(k - 1) + k]^2, {k, n}], {n, 100}]
CROSSREFS
Cf. A008683 (Möbius), A344350.
Sequence in context: A339363 A377910 A114212 * A108355 A346049 A057951
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Wesley Ivan Hurt, May 15 2021
STATUS
approved