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A014448 Even Lucas numbers: L(3n). 43

%I #80 Jan 25 2023 11:47:34

%S 2,4,18,76,322,1364,5778,24476,103682,439204,1860498,7881196,33385282,

%T 141422324,599074578,2537720636,10749957122,45537549124,192900153618,

%U 817138163596,3461452808002,14662949395604,62113250390418

%N Even Lucas numbers: L(3n).

%C This is the Lucas sequence V(4,-1). - _Bruno Berselli_, Jan 08 2013

%H Indranil Ghosh, <a href="/A014448/b014448.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1591</a>

%H Pooja Bhadouria, Deepika Jhala and Bijendra Singh, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22436/jmcs.08.01.07">Binomial Transforms of the k-Lucas Sequences and its Properties</a>, The Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science (JMCS), Volume 8, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 81-92; sequence L_{4,n}.

%H H. H. Ferns, <a href="https://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/5-2/elementary5-2.pdf">Problem B-115</a>, Elementary Problems and Solutions, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1967), p. 202; <a href="https://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/6-1/elementary6-1.pdf">Identities for F_{kn} and L{kn}</a>, Solution to Problem B-115 by Stanley Rabinowitz, ibid., Vol. 6, No. 1 (1968), pp. 92-93.

%H Tanya Khovanova, <a href="http://www.tanyakhovanova.com/RecursiveSequences/RecursiveSequences.html">Recursive Sequences</a>.

%H Michael Z. Spivey and Laura L. Steil, <a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL9/Spivey/spivey7.html">The k-Binomial Transforms and the Hankel Transform</a>, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 9 (2006), Article 06.1.1.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_sequence#Specific_names">Lucas sequence: Specific names</a>.

%H <a href="/index/Rea#recur1">Index entries for recurrences a(n) = k*a(n - 1) +/- a(n - 2)</a>.

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_02">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (4,1).

%F G.f.: (2-4*x)/(1-4*x-x^2).

%F a(n) = 4*a(n-1) +a(n-2) with n>1, a(0)=2, a(1)=4.

%F a(n) = (2+sqrt(5))^n + (2-sqrt(5))^n.

%F a(n) = 2*A001077(n).

%F a(n) = A000032(3*n).

%F a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} C(n,k)*Lucas(n+k). - _Paul D. Hanna_, Oct 19 2010

%F a(n) = Fibonacci(6*n)/Fibonacci(3*n), n>0. - _Gary Detlefs_, Dec 26 2010

%F From _Peter Bala_, Mar 22 2015: (Start)

%F a(n) = ( Fibonacci(3*n + 2*k) - F(3*n - 2*k) )/Fibonacci(2*k) for nonzero integer k.

%F a(n) = ( Fibonacci(3*n + 2*k + 1) + F(3*n - 2*k - 1) )/Fibonacci(2*k + 1) for arbitrary integer k. (End)

%F a(n) = [x^n] ( (1 + 4*x + sqrt(1 + 8*x + 20*x^2))/2 )^n for n >= 1. - _Peter Bala_, Jun 23 2015

%F a(n) = L(n)*(L(n-1)*L(n+1) + 2*(-1)^n). - _J. M. Bergot_, Feb 05 2016

%F From _Peter Bala_ Oct 14 2019: (Start)

%F Sum_{n >= 1} 1/( a(n) + (-1)^(n+1)*20/a(n) ) = 3/16.

%F Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/( a(n) + (-1)^(n+1)*20/a(n) ) = 1/16. (End)

%F a(n) = (15*Fibonacci(n)^2*Lucas(n) + Lucas(n)^3)/4 (Ferns, 1967). - _Amiram Eldar_, Feb 06 2022

%e a(4) = L(3 * 4) = L(12) = 322. - _Indranil Ghosh_, Feb 05 2017

%t Table[LucasL[3*n], {n,0,100}] (* _G. C. Greubel_, Nov 07 2018 *)

%o (PARI) polsym(x^2-4*x-1,100)

%o (PARI) a(n)=sum(k=0,n,binomial(n,k)*(fibonacci(n+k-1)+fibonacci(n+k+1))) \\ _Paul D. Hanna_, Oct 19 2010

%o (Sage) [lucas_number2(n,4,-1) for n in range(0, 23)] # _Zerinvary Lajos_, May 14 2009

%o (Magma) [Lucas(3*n) : n in [0..100]]; // _Vincenzo Librandi_, Apr 14 2011

%Y Cf. A000032, A000045, A001077.

%Y Cf. Lucas(k*n): A005248 (k = 2), A056854 (k = 4), A001946 (k = 5), A087215 (k = 6), A087281 (k = 7), A087265 (k = 8), A087287 (k = 9), A089772 (k = 11), A089775 (k = 12).

%K nonn,easy

%O 0,1

%A _Mohammad K. Azarian_

%E More terms from _Erich Friedman_

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