The OEIS mourns the passing of Jim Simons and is grateful to the Simons Foundation for its support of research in many branches of science, including the OEIS.
login
The OEIS is supported by the many generous donors to the OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo
Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A028242 Follow n+1 by n. Also (essentially) Molien series of 2-dimensional quaternion group Q_8. 55

%I #119 Oct 08 2022 09:44:28

%S 1,0,2,1,3,2,4,3,5,4,6,5,7,6,8,7,9,8,10,9,11,10,12,11,13,12,14,13,15,

%T 14,16,15,17,16,18,17,19,18,20,19,21,20,22,21,23,22,24,23,25,24,26,25,

%U 27,26,28,27,29,28,30,29,31,30,32,31,33,32,34,33,35,34,36,35,37,36,38

%N Follow n+1 by n. Also (essentially) Molien series of 2-dimensional quaternion group Q_8.

%C A two-way infinite sequences which is palindromic (up to sign). - _Michael Somos_, Mar 21 2003

%C Number of permutations of [n+1] avoiding the patterns 123, 132 and 231 and having exactly one fixed point. Example: a(0) because we have 1; a(2)=2 because we have 213 and 321; a(3)=1 because we have 3214. - _Emeric Deutsch_, Nov 17 2005

%C The ring of invariants for the standard action of Quaternions on C^2 is generated by x^4 + y^4, x^2 * y^2, and x * y * (x^4 - y^4). - _Michael Somos_, Mar 14 2011

%C A000027 and A001477 interleaved. - _Omar E. Pol_, Feb 06 2012

%C First differences are A168361, extended by an initial -1. (Or: a(n)-a(n-1) = A168361(n+1), for all n >= 1.) - _M. F. Hasler_, Oct 05 2017

%C Also the number of unlabeled simple graphs with n + 1 vertices and exactly n endpoints (vertices of degree 1). The labeled version is A327370. - _Gus Wiseman_, Sep 06 2019

%D D. Benson, Polynomial Invariants of Finite Groups, Cambridge, p. 23.

%D S. Mukai, An Introduction to Invariants and Moduli, Cambridge, 2003; see p. 15.

%D M. D. Neusel and L. Smith, Invariant Theory of Finite Groups, Amer. Math. Soc., 2002; see p. 97.

%D L. Smith, Polynomial Invariants of Finite Groups, A K Peters, 1995, p. 90.

%H Reinhard Zumkeller, <a href="/A028242/b028242.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>

%H Paul Barry, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04577">On a Central Transform of Integer Sequences</a>, arXiv:2004.04577 [math.CO], 2020.

%H H. W. Gould, <a href="http://www.fq.math.ca/Papers1/44-4/quartgould04_2006.pdf">The inverse of a finite series and a third-order recurrent sequence</a>, Fibonacci Quart. 44 (2006), no. 4, 302-315. See page 311.

%H T. Mansour and A. Robertson, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s000260200013">Refined restricted permutations avoiding subsets of patterns of length three</a>, Annals of Combinatorics, 6, 2002, 407-418 (Theorem 3.3).

%H MathOverflow, <a href="http://mathoverflow.net/questions/58283/">A question about an application of Molien's formula to find the generators and relations of an invariant ring</a>.

%H Gus Wiseman, <a href="/A028242/a028242.png">The a(3) = 2 through a(7) = 4 graphs with exactly n - 1 endpoints</a>.

%H <a href="/index/Mo#Molien">Index entries for Molien series</a>.

%H <a href="/index/Tu#2wis">Index entries for two-way infinite sequences</a>.

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_03">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (1,1,-1).

%F Expansion of the Molien series for standard action of Quaternions on C^2: (1 + t^6) / (1 - t^4)^2 = (1 - t^12) / ((1 - t^4)^2 * (1 - t^6)) in powers of t^2.

%F Euler transform of length 6 sequence [0, 2, 1, 0, 0, -1]. - _Michael Somos_, Mar 14 2011

%F a(n) = n - a(n-1) [with a(0) = 1] = A000035(n-1) + A004526(n). - _Henry Bottomley_, Jul 25 2001

%F G.f.: (1 - x + x^2) / ((1 - x) * (1 - x^2)) = ( 1+x^2-x ) / ( (1+x)*(x-1)^2 ).

%F a(2*n) = n + 1, a(2*n + 1) = n, a(-1 - n) = -a(n).

%F a(n) = a(n - 1) + a(n - 2) - a(n - 3).

%F a(n) = floor(n/2) + 1 - n mod 2. a(2*k) = k+1, a(2*k+1) = k; A110657(n) = a(a(n)), A110658(n) = a(a(a(n))); a(n) = A109613(n)-A110654(n) = A110660(n)/A110654(n). - _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Aug 05 2005

%F a(n) = 2*floor(n/2) - floor((n-1)/2). - _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Oct 22 2013

%F a(n) = floor((n+1+(-1)^n)/2). - _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Mar 15 2015

%F a(n) = (1 + 2n + 3(-1)^n)/4. - _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Mar 18 2015

%F a(n) = Sum_{i=1..floor(n/2)} floor(n/(n-i)) for n > 0. - _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, May 21 2017

%F a(2n) = n+1, a(2n+1) = n, for all n >= 0. - _M. F. Hasler_, Oct 05 2017

%F a(n) = 3*floor(n/2) - n + 1. - _Pierre-Alain Sallard_, Dec 15 2018

%F E.g.f.: ((2 + x)*cosh(x) + (x - 1)*sinh(x))/2. - _Stefano Spezia_, Aug 01 2022

%F Sum_{n>=2} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = 1. - _Amiram Eldar_, Oct 04 2022

%e G.f. = 1 + 2*x^2 + x^3 + 3*x^4 + 2*x^5 + 4*x^6 + 3*x^7 + 5*x^8 + 4*x^9 + 6*x^10 + 5*x^11 + ...

%e Molien g.f. = 1 + 2*t^4 + t^6 + 3*t^8 + 2*t^10 + 4*t^12 + 3*t^14 + 5*t^16 + 4*t^18 + 6*t^20 + ...

%p series((1+x^3)/(1-x^2)^2,x,80);

%p A028242:=n->floor((n+1+(-1)^n)/2): seq(A028242(n), n=0..100); # _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Mar 17 2015

%t Table[(1 + 2 n + 3 (-1)^n)/4, {n, 0, 74}] (* or *)

%t LinearRecurrence[{1, 1, -1}, {1, 0, 2}, 75] (* or *)

%t CoefficientList[Series[(1 - x + x^2)/((1 - x) (1 - x^2)), {x, 0, 74}], x] (* _Michael De Vlieger_, May 21 2017 *)

%t Table[{n,n-1},{n,40}]//Flatten (* _Harvey P. Dale_, Jun 26 2017 *)

%t Table[3*floor(n/2)-n+1,{n,0,40}] (* _Pierre-Alain Sallard_, Dec 15 2018 *)

%o (PARI) {a(n) = (n\2) - (n%2) + 1} \\ _Michael Somos_, Oct 02 1999

%o (PARI) A028242(n)=n\2+!bittest(n,0) \\ _M. F. Hasler_, Oct 05 2017

%o (Magma) &cat[ [n+1, n]: n in [0..37] ]; // _Klaus Brockhaus_, Nov 23 2009

%o (Haskell)

%o import Data.List (transpose)

%o a028242 n = n' + 1 - m where (n',m) = divMod n 2

%o a028242_list = concat $ transpose [a000027_list, a001477_list]

%o -- _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Nov 27 2012

%o (GAP) a:=[1];; for n in [2..80] do a[n]:=(n-1)-a[n-1]; od; a; # _Muniru A Asiru_, Dec 16 2018

%o (Sage) s=((1+x^3)/(1-x^2)^2).series(x, 80); s.coefficients(x, sparse=False) # _G. C. Greubel_, Dec 16 2018

%Y Cf. A000124 (a=1, a=n+a), A028242 (a=1, a=n-a).

%Y Partial sums give A004652. A030451(n)=a(n+1), n>0.

%Y Cf. A052938 (same sequence except no leading 1,0,2).

%Y Cf. A000027, A001477.

%Y Column k = n - 1 of A327371.

%Y Cf. A000035, A004526, A004110, A059167, A109613, A110654, A110657, A110658, A110660, A168361, A245797, A327227, A327369, A327370, A327377.

%K nonn,easy,nice

%O 0,3

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_

%E First part of definition adjusted to match offset by _Klaus Brockhaus_, Nov 23 2009

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recents
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. .

Last modified May 14 23:22 EDT 2024. Contains 372535 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)