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A006053
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a(n) = a(n-1) + 2*a(n-2) - a(n-3), with a(0) = a(1) = 0, a(2) = 1.
(Formerly M2358)
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0, 0, 1, 1, 3, 4, 9, 14, 28, 47, 89, 155, 286, 507, 924, 1652, 2993, 5373, 9707, 17460, 31501, 56714, 102256, 184183, 331981, 598091, 1077870, 1942071, 3499720, 6305992, 11363361, 20475625, 36896355, 66484244, 119801329, 215873462, 388991876, 700937471
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OFFSET
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0,5
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COMMENTS
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a(n+1) = S(n) for n>=1, where S(n) is the number of 01-words of length n, having first letter 1, in which all runlengths of 1's are odd. Example: S(4) counts 1000, 1001, 1010, 1110. See A077865. - Clark Kimberling, Jun 26 2004
For n>=1, number of compositions of n into floor(j/2) kinds of j's (see g.f.). - Joerg Arndt, Jul 06 2011
Counts walks of length n between the first and second nodes of P_3, to which a loop has been added at the end. Let A be the adjacency matrix of the graph P_3 with a loop added at the end. A is a 'reverse Jordan matrix' [0,0,1; 0,1,1; 1,1,0]. a(n) is obtained by taking the (1,2) element of A^n. - Paul Barry, Jul 16 2004
a(n) appears in the formula for the nonnegative powers of rho:= 2*cos(Pi/7), the ratio of the smaller diagonal in the heptagon to the side length s=2*sin(Pi/7), when expressed in the basis <1,rho,sigma>, with sigma:=rho^2-1, the ratio of the larger heptagon diagonal to the side length, as follows. rho^n = C(n)*1 + C(n+1)*rho + a(n)*sigma, n>=0, with C(n) = A052547(n-2). See the Steinbach reference, and a comment under A052547. - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 25 2010
If with the above notations the power basis <1,rho,rho^2> of Q(rho) is used, nonnegative powers of rho are given by rho^n = -a(n-1)*1 + A052547(n-1)*rho + a(n)*rho^2. For negative powers see A006054. - Wolfdieter Lang, May 06 2011
-a(n-1) also appears in the formula for the nonpositive powers of sigma (see the above comment for the definition, and the Steinbach basis <1,rho,sigma>) as follows: sigma^(-n) = A(n)*1 -a(n+1)*rho -A(n-1)*sigma, with A(n) = A052547(n), A(-1):=0. - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 25 2010
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REFERENCES
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N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
R. Witula, E. Hetmaniok and D. Slota, Sums of the powers of any order roots taken from the roots of a given polynomial, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications (2012).
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LINKS
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FORMULA
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a(n) = c^(n-2) - a(n-1)*(c-1) + (1/c)*a(n-2) for n > 3 where c = 2*cos(Pi/7). Example: a(7) = 14 = c^5 - 9*(c-1) + 4/c = 18.997607... - 7.21743962... + 2.219832528... - Gary W. Adamson, Jan 24 2010
G.f.: -1 + 1/(1 - Sum_{j>=1} floor(j/2)*x^j). - Joerg Arndt, Jul 06 2011
a(n) = 2^n*(c(1)^(n-1)*(c(1)+c(2)) + c(3)^(n-1)*(c(3)+c(6)) + c(5)^(n-1)*(c(5)+c(4)) )/7, with c(j):=cos(Pi*j/7). - Herbert Kociemba, Dec 18 2011
a(n+1)*(-1)^n*49^(1/3) = (c(1)/c(4))^(1/3)*(2*c(1))^n + (c(2)/c(1))^(1/3)*(2*c(2))^n + (c(4)/c(2))^(1/3)*(2c(4))^n = (c(2)/c(1))^(1/3)*(2*c(1))^(n+1) + (c(4)/c(2))^(1/3)*(c(2))^(n+1) + (c(1)/c(4))^(1/3)*(2*c(4))^(n+1), where c(j) := cos(2Pi*j/7); for the proof, see Witula et al.'s papers. - Roman Witula, Jul 21 2012
G.f.: x^2 / (1 - x / (1 - 2*x / (1 + 5*x / (2 - x / (5 - 2*x))))). - Michael Somos, Jan 20 2017
a(n) ~ r*c^n, where r=0.241717... is one of the roots of 49*x^3-7*x+1, and c=2*cos(Pi/7) (as in Gary W. Adamson's formula). - Daniel Checa, Nov 04 2022
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EXAMPLE
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G.f. = x^2 + x^3 + 3*x^4 + 4*x^5 + 9*x^6 + 14*x^7 + 28*x^8 + 47*x^9 + ...
Regarding the description "number of compositions of n into floor(j/2) kinds of j's," the a(6)=9 compositions of 6 are (2a, 2a, 2a), (3a, 3a), (2a, 4a), (2a, 4b), (4a, 2a), (4b, 2a), (6a), (6b), (6c). - Bridget Tenner, Feb 25 2022
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MAPLE
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a[0]:=0: a[1]:=0: a[2]:=1: for n from 3 to 40 do a[n]:=a[n-1]+2*a[n-2]-a[n-3] od:seq(a[n], n=0..40); # Emeric Deutsch
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MATHEMATICA
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PROG
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(Magma) [ n eq 1 select 0 else n eq 2 select 0 else n eq 3 select 1 else Self(n-1) +2*Self(n-2) -Self(n-3): n in [1..40] ]: // Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 19 2011
(Haskell)
a006053 n = a006053_list !! n
a006053_list = 0 : 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) (drop 2 a006053_list)
(zipWith (-) (map (2 *) $ tail a006053_list) a006053_list)
(PARI) {a(n) = if( n<0, n = -1-n; polcoeff( -1 / (1 - 2*x - x^2 + x^3) + x * O(x^n), n), polcoeff( x^2 / (1 - x - 2*x^2 + x^3) + x * O(x^n), n))}; /* Michael Somos, Nov 30 2014 */
(SageMath)
@CachedFunction
if (n<3): return (n//2)
else: return a(n-1) + 2*a(n-2) - a(n-3)
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KEYWORD
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nonn,easy
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