OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Equals row sums of triangle A137865. - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 18 2008
Also, the decimal representation of the diagonal from the corner to the origin of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 566", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood, initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero. - Robert Price, Jul 05 2017
Number of nonempty subsets of {1,2,...,n+1} that contain only odd numbers. a(0) = a(1) = 1: {1}; a(6) = a(7) = 15: {1}, {3}, {5}, {7}, {1,3}, {1,5}, {1,7}, {3,5}, {3,7}, {5,7}, {1,3,5}, {1,3,7}, {1,5,7}, {3,5,7}, {1,3,5,7}. - Enrique Navarrete, Mar 16 2018
Number of nonempty subsets of {1,2,...,n+2} that contain only even numbers. a(0) = a(1) = 1: {2}; a(4) = a(5) = 7: {2}, {4}, {6}, {2,4}, {2,6}, {4,6}, {2,4,6}. - Enrique Navarrete, Mar 26 2018
Doubling of A000225(n+1), n >= 0 entries. First differences give A077957. - Wolfdieter Lang, Apr 08 2018
a(n-2) is the number of achiral rows or cycles of length n partitioned into two sets or the number of color patterns using exactly 2 colors. An achiral row or cycle is equivalent to its reverse. Two color patterns are equivalent if the colors are permuted. For n = 4, the a(n-2) = 3 row patterns are AABB, ABAB, and ABBA; the cycle patterns are AAAB, AABB, and ABAB. For n = 5, the a(n-2) = 3 patterns for both rows and cycles are AABAA, ABABA, and ABBBA. For n = 6, the a(n-2) = 7 patterns for rows are AAABBB, AABABB, AABBAA, ABAABA, ABABAB, ABBAAB, and ABBBBA; the cycle patterns are AAAAAB, AAAABB, AAABAB, AAABBB, AABAAB, AABABB, and ABABAB. - Robert A. Russell, Oct 15 2018
For integers m > 1, the expansion of 1/((1 - x)*(1 - m*x^2)) generates a(n) = sqrt(m)^(n + 1)*((-1)^n*(sqrt(m) - 1)) + sqrt(m) + 1)/(2*(m - 1)). It appears, for integer values of n >= 0 and m > 1, that it could be simplified in the integral domain a(n) = (m^(1 + floor(n/2)) - 1)/(m - 1). - Federico Provvedi, Nov 23 2018
From Werner Schulte, Mar 04 2019: (Start)
More generally: For some fixed integers q and r > 0 the expansion of A(q,r; x) = 1/((1-x)*(1-q*x^r)) generates coefficients a(q,r; n) = (q^(1+floor(n/r))-1)/(q-1) for n >= 0; the special case q = 1 leads to a(1,r; n) = 1 + floor(n/r).
The a(q,r; n) satisfy for n > r a linear recurrence equation with constant coefficients. The signature vector is given by the sum of two vectors v and w where v has terms 1 followed by r zeros, i.e., (1,0,0,...,0), and w has r-1 leading zeros followed by q and -q, i.e., (0,0,...,0,q,-q).
Let a_i(q,r; n) be the convolution inverse of a(q,r; n). The terms are given by the sum a_i(q,r; n) = b(n) + c(n) for n >= 0 where b(n) has terms 1 and -1 followed by infinitely zeros, i.e., (1,-1,0,0,0,...), and c(n) has r leading zeros followed by -q, q and infinitely zeros, i.e., (0,0,...,0,-q,q,0,0,0,...).
Here is an example for q = 3 and r = 5: The expansion of A(3,5; x) = 1/((1-x)*(1-3*x^5)) = Sum_{n>=0} a(3,5; n)*x^n generates the sequence of coefficients (a(3,5; n)) = (1,1,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,13,13,13,13,13,40,...) where r = 5 controls the repetition and q = 3 the different values.
The a(3,5; n) satisfy for n > 5 the linear recurrence equation with constant coefficients and signature (1,0,0,0,0,0) + (0,0,0,0,3,-3) = (1,0,0,0,3,-3).
The convolution inverse a_i(3,5; n) has terms (1,-1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,...) + (0,0,0,0,0,-3,3,0,0,...) = (1,-1,0,0,0,-3,3,0,0,...).
For further examples and informations see A014983 (q,r = -3,1), A077925 (q,r = -2,1), A000035 (q,r = -1,1), A000012 (q,r = 0,1), A000027 (q,r = 1,1), A000225 (q,r = 2,1), A003462 (q,r = 3,1), A077953 (q,r = -2,2), A133872 (q,r = -1,2), A004526 (q,r = 1,2), A052551 (this sequence with q,r = 2,2), A077886 (q,r = -2,3), A088911 (q,r = -1,3), A002264 (q,r = 1,3) and A077885 (q,r = 2,3). The offsets might be different.
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REFERENCES
S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..2000
INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 488
Donatella Merlini, Massimo Nocentini, Algebraic Generating Functions for Languages Avoiding Riordan Patterns, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 21 (2018), Article 18.1.3.
N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton
S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
Wolfram Research, Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1,2,-2).
FORMULA
G.f.: 1/((1 - x)*(1 - 2*x^2)).
Recurrence: a(1) = 1, a(0) = 1, -2*a(n) - 1 + a(n+2) = 0.
a(n) = -1 + Sum((1/2)*(1 + 2*alpha)*alpha^(-1 - n)) where the sum is over alpha = the two roots of -1 + 2*x^2.
a(n) = A016116(n+2) - 1. - R. J. Mathar, Jun 15 2009
a(n) = A060546(n+1) - 1. - Filip Zaludek, Dec 10 2016
From Robert A. Russell, Oct 15 2018: (Start)
a(n-2) = S2(floor(n/2)+1,2), where S2 is the Stirling subset number A008277.
From Federico Provvedi, Nov 22 2018: (Start)
a(n) = 2^( 1 + floor(n/2) ) - 1.
a(n) = ( (-1)^n*(sqrt(2)-1) + sqrt(2) + 1 ) * 2^( (n - 1)/2 ) - 1. (End)
E.g.f.: 2*cosh(sqrt(2)*x) + sqrt(2)*sinh(sqrt(2)*x) - cosh(x) - sinh(x). - Franck Maminirina Ramaharo, Nov 23 2018
MAPLE
spec := [S, {S=Prod(Sequence(Prod(Z, Union(Z, Z))), Sequence(Z))}, unlabeled]: seq(combstruct[count](spec, size=n), n=0..20);
MATHEMATICA
Table[StirlingS2[Floor[n/2] + 2, 2], {n, 0, 50}] (* Robert A. Russell, Dec 20 2017 *)
Drop[LinearRecurrence[{1, 2, -2}, {0, 1, 1}, 50], 1] (* Robert A. Russell, Oct 14 2018 *)
CoefficientList[Series[1/((1-x)*(1-2*x^2)), {x, 0, 50}], x] (* Stefano Spezia, Oct 16 2018 *)
2^(1+Floor[(Range[0, 50])/2])-1 (* Federico Provvedi, Nov 22 2018 *)
((-1)^#(Sqrt[2]-1)+Sqrt[2]+1)2^((#-1)/2)-1&@Range[0, 50] (* Federico Provvedi, Nov 23 2018 *)
PROG
(Magma) [2^Floor(n/2)-1: n in [2..50]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 16 2011
(PARI) x='x+O('x^50); Vec(1/((1-x)*(1-2*x^2))) \\ Altug Alkan, Mar 19 2018
(GAP) Flat(List([1..21], n->[2^n-1, 2^n-1])); # Muniru A Asiru, Oct 16 2018
(Sage) [2^(floor(n/2)) -1 for n in (2..50)] # G. C. Greubel, Mar 04 2019
CROSSREFS
Column 2 (offset by two) of A304972.
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
encyclopedia(AT)pommard.inria.fr, Jan 25 2000
EXTENSIONS
More terms from James A. Sellers, Jun 06 2000
STATUS
approved