A366045 Number of circular binary sequences of length n with an odd number of 0's and no three consecutive 1's.

1, 2, 4, 4, 11, 20, 36, 64, 121, 222, 408, 748, 1379, 2536, 4664, 8576, 15777, 29018, 53372, 98164, 180555, 332092, 610812, 1123456, 2066361, 3800630, 6990448, 12857436, 23648515, 43496400, 80002352, 147147264, 270646017, 497795634, 915588916, 1684030564

Offset

1,2

Comments

A circular binary sequence is a finite sequence of 0's and 1's for which the first and last digits are considered to be adjacent. Rotations are distinguished from each other. Also called a marked cyclic binary sequence.

a(n) is also equal to the number of circular compositions of n into an odd number of 1's, 2's, and 3's.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..36.

Joshua P. Bowman, Compositions with an Odd Number of Parts, and Other Congruences, J. Int. Seq (2024) Vol. 27, Art. 24.3.6. See p. 19.

Petros Hadjicostas and Lingyun Zhang, On cyclic strings avoiding a pattern, Discrete Mathematics, 341 (2018), 1662-1674.

W. O. J. Moser, Cyclic binary strings without long runs of like (alternating) bits, Fibonacci Quart. 31 (1993), no. 1, 2-6.

Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,1,2,3,2,1).

Formula

G.f.: x*(1+2*x+3*x^2)/((1-x-x^2-x^3)*(1+x+x^2+x^3)).

a(n) = (1/2)*A001644(n) + 1/2 - 2*[n==0 (mod 4)].

a(n) = a(n-2) + 2*a(n-3) + 3*a(n-4) + 2*a(n-5) + a(n-6), a(1)=1, a(2)=2, a(3)=4, a(4)=4, a(5)=11, a(6)=20.

a(n) = A001644(n) - A366044(n).

Example

a(1)=1 because 0 is the only allowed sequence of length one, and a(2)=2 because 01 and 10 are the only allowed sequences of length two.
The allowed sequences of length three are 000, 011, 101, and 110. The allowed sequences of length four are 0001, 0010, 0100, and 1000. Thus a(3)=a(4)=4.

Mathematica

LinearRecurrence[{0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1}, {1, 2, 4, 4, 11, 20}, 50]

Crossrefs

Cf. A001644, A283834, A366043, A366044.

Sequence in context: A121049 A056415 A242993 * A263382 A286714 A368436

Adjacent sequences: A366042 A366043 A366044 * A366046 A366047 A366048

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Joshua P. Bowman, Sep 27 2023

Status

approved