OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
The j-th autocorrelation of the first m terms of a sequence r taking values in {1, -1} is defined the absolute value of the Sum_{0 <= i < m-j} r(i)*r(i+j). The maximum autocorrelation is the maximum of the absolute value of this quantity over the range 1 <= j < m. In our case r(i) = A020985(i) and n = 2^m.
LINKS
T. Høholdt, H. Elbrønd Jensen, and J. Justesen, Aperiodic Correlations and the Merit Factor of a Class of Binary Sequences, IEEE Trans. Info. Theory IT-31 (1985), 549-552.
FORMULA
The paper of Høholdt et al. shows that a(n) = O( (2^n)^0.9 ).
MAPLE
mb := m -> max(seq(abs(b(m, j)), j=1..m-1)):
a := n -> mb(2^n): seq(a(n), n=1..12); # Peter Luschny, Dec 06 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Shallit, Dec 06 2019
STATUS
approved