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A000567 Octagonal numbers: n(3n-2). Also called star numbers.

0, 1, 8, 21, 40, 65, 96, 133, 176, 225, 280, 341, 408, 481, 560, 645, 736, 833, 936, 1045, 1160, 1281, 1408, 1541, 1680, 1825, 1976, 2133, 2296, 2465, 2640, 2821, 3008, 3201, 3400, 3605, 3816, 4033, 4256, 4485, 4720, 4961, 5208, 5461

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

From Floor van Lamoen, Jul 21 2001: (Start)
Write 1,2,3,4,... in a hexagonal spiral around 0; then a(n) is the sequence found by reading the line from 0 in the direction 0,1,....
The spiral begins:
.
                 85--84--83--82--81--80
                 /                     \
               86  56--55--54--53--52  79
               /   /                 \   \
             87  57  33--32--31--30  51  78
             /   /   /             \   \   \
           88  58  34  16--15--14  29  50  77
           /   /   /   /         \   \   \   \
         89  59  35  17   5---4  13  28  49  76
         /   /   /   /   /     \   \   \   \   \
       90  60  36  18   6   0   3  12  27  48  75
       /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /
     91  61  37  19   7   1---2  11  26  47  74
       \   \   \   \   \ .       /   /   /   /
       92  62  38  20   8---9--10  25  46  73
         \   \   \   \ .           /   /   /
         93  63  39  21--22--23--24  45  72
           \   \   \ .               /   /
           94  64  40--41--42--43--44  71
             \   \ .                   /
             95  65--66--67--68--69--70
               \ .
               96
.
(End)
From Lekraj Beedassy, Oct 02 2003: (Start)
Also the number of distinct three-cell blocks that may be removed out of A000217(n+1) square cells arranged in a stepping triangular array of side (n+1). A 5-layer triangular array of square cells, for instance, has vertices outlined thus:
  x x
  x x x
  x x x x
  x x x x x
  x x x x x x
  x x x x x x  (End)
First derivative at n of A045991. - Ross La Haye, Oct 23 2004
Starting from n=1, the sequence corresponds to the Wiener index of K_{n,n} (the complete bipartite graph wherein each independent set has n vertices). - Kailasam Viswanathan Iyer, Mar 11 2009
Number of divisors of 24^(n-1) for n > 0 (cf A009968). - J. Lowell, Aug 30 2008
a(n) = A001399(6n-5), number of partitions of 6*n - 5 into parts < 4. For example a(2)=8 and partitions of 6*2 - 5 = 7 into parts < 4 are: [1,1,1,1,1,1,1], [1,1,1,1,1,2],[1,1,1,1,3], [1,1,1,2,2], [1,1,2,3], [1,2,2,2], [1,3,3], [2,2,3]. - Adi Dani, Jun 07 2011
Also, sequence found by reading the line from 0 in the direction 0, 8, ..., and the parallel line from 1 in the direction 1, 21, ..., in the square spiral whose vertices are the generalized octagonal numbers A001082. - Omar E. Pol, Sep 10 2011
Partial sums give A002414. - Omar E. Pol, Jan 12 2013
Generate a Pythagorean triple using Euclid's formula with (n, n-1) to give A,B,C. a(n) = B + (A + C)/2. - J. M. Bergot, Jul 13 2013
The number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 773", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood. - Robert Price, May 23 2016
For n >= 1, the continued fraction expansion of sqrt(27*a(n)) is [9n-4; {1, 2n-2, 3, 2n-2, 1, 18n-8}]. For n=1, this collapses to [5; {5, 10}]. - Magus K. Chu, Oct 10 2022
a(n)*a(n+1) + 1 = (3n^2 + n - 1)^2. In general, a(n)*a(n+k) + k^2 = (3n^2 + (3k-2)n - k)^2. - Charlie Marion, May 23 2023

Albert H. Beiler, Recreations in the Theory of Numbers, Dover, NY, 1964, p. 189.
John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. See p. 38.
E. Deza and M. M. Deza, Figurate numbers, World Scientific Publishing (2012), page 6.
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N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pages 19-20.
David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin Books, NY, 1986, Revised edition 1987. See p. 123.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Raghavendra N. Bhat, Cristian Cobeli, and Alexandru Zaharescu, A lozenge triangulation of the plane with integers, arXiv:2403.10500 [math.NT], 2024.
Francesco Brenti and Paolo Sentinelli, Wachs permutations, Bruhat order and weak order, arXiv:2212.04932 [math.CO], 2022.
Cesar Ceballos and Viviane Pons, The s-weak order and s-permutahedra II: The combinatorial complex of pure intervals, arXiv:2309.14261 [math.CO], 2023. See p. 42.
C. K. Cook and M. R. Bacon, Some polygonal number summation formulas, Fib. Q., 52 (2014), 336-343.
John Elias, Illustration: Hexagonal spiral grids based on generalized octagonal numbers; Illustration: Generalized Square-Octagonal Grids.
John Elias, Illustration: Nesting Cube-frames; Nesting Cube Animation; Nesting-frames Decomposition; Factorial Compartmentalization.
Ghislain R. Franssens, On a Number Pyramid Related to the Binomial, Deleham, Eulerian, MacMahon and Stirling number triangles, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 9 (2006), Article 06.4.1.
Lancelot Hogben, Choice and Chance by Cardpack and Chessboard, Vol. 1, Max Parrish and Co, London, 1950, p. 36.
INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 342.
Milan Janjic and B. Petkovic, A Counting Function, arXiv 1301.4550 [math.CO], 2013.
R. Kemp, On the number of words in the language {w in Sigma* | w = w^R }^2, Discrete Math., 40 (1982), 225-234. See Table 1.
Hyun Kwang Kim, On Regular Polytope Numbers, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 131 (2002), 65-75.
Kaie Kubjas, Luca Sodomaco, and Elias Tsigaridas, Exact solutions in low-rank approximation with zeros, arXiv:2010.15636 [math.AG], 2020.
Viktor Levandovskyy, Christoph Koutschan, and Oleksandr Motsak, On Two-generated Non-commutative Algebras Subject to the Affine Relation, arXiv:1108.1108 [cs.SC], 2011.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
Omar E. Pol, Illustration of initial terms of A000217, A000290, A000326, A000384, A000566, A000567.
Leo Tavares, Illustration: Square Rays.
Leo Tavares, Illustration: Twin Rectangular Rays.
Leo Tavares, Illustration: Star Rows.
Leo Tavares, Illustration: Split Stars.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Complete Bipartite Graph.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Octagonal Number.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Wiener Index.
Index to sequences related to polygonal numbers.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (3,-3,1).

Cf. A014641, A014642, A014793, A014794, A001835, A016777, A045944, A093563 ((6, 1) Pascal, column m=2). A016921 (differences).
Cf. A005408 (the odd numbers).
Cf. A000290, A000217, A046092, A000384, A002378, A003154.

List([0..50], n -> n*(3*n-2)); # G. C. Greubel, Nov 15 2018

a000567 n = n * (3 * n - 2)  -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Dec 20 2012

[n*(3*n-2) : n in [0..50]]; // Wesley Ivan Hurt, Oct 10 2021

A000567 := proc(n)
    n*(3*n-2) ;
end proc:
seq(A000567(n), n=1..50) ;

Table[n (3 n - 2), {n, 0, 50}] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 06 2012 *)
Table[PolygonalNumber[RegularPolygon[8], n], {n, 0, 43}] (* Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Aug 27 2016 *)
PolygonalNumber[8, Range[0, 20]] (* Eric W. Weisstein, Sep 07 2017 *)
LinearRecurrence[{3, -3, 1}, {1, 8, 21}, {0, 20}] (* Eric W. Weisstein, Sep 07 2017 *)

a(n)=n*(3*n-2) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 10 2011

vector(50, n, n--; n*(3*n-2)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Nov 15 2018

# Intended to compute the initial segment of the sequence, not isolated terms.
def aList():
     x, y = 1, 1
     yield 0
     while True:
         yield x
         x, y = x + y + 6, y + 6
A000567 = aList()
print([next(A000567) for i in range(49)]) # Peter Luschny, Aug 04 2019

[n*(3*n-2) for n in range(50)] # Gennady Eremin, Mar 10 2022

[n*(3*n-2) for n in range(50)] # G. C. Greubel, Nov 15 2018

a(n) = n*(3*n-2).
a(n) = (3n-2)*(3n-1)*(3n)/((3n-1) + (3n-2) + (3n)), i.e., (the product of three consecutive numbers)/(their sum). a(1) = 1*2*3/(1+2+3), a(2) = 4*5*6/(4+5+6), etc. - Amarnath Murthy, Aug 29 2002
E.g.f.: exp(x)*(x+3*x^2). - Paul Barry, Jul 23 2003
G.f.: x*(1+5*x)/(1-x)^3. Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} (5*n - 4*k). - Paul Barry, Sep 06 2005
a(n) = n + 6*A000217(n-1). - Floor van Lamoen, Oct 14 2005
a(n) = C(n+1,2) + 5*C(n,2).
Starting (1, 8, 21, 40, 65, ...) = binomial transform of [1, 7, 6, 0, 0, 0, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Apr 30 2008
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) - 3*a(n-2) + a(n-3), a(0)=0, a(1)=1, a(2)=8. - Jaume Oliver Lafont, Dec 02 2008
a(n) = A000578(n) - A007531(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 18 2009
a(n) = a(n-1) + 6*n - 5 (with a(0)=0). - Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 20 2010
a(n) = 2*a(n-1) - a(n-2) + 6. - Ant King, Sep 01 2011
a(n) = A000217(n) + 5*A000217(n-1). - Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 20 2010
a(n) = (A185212(n) - 1) / 4. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Dec 20 2012
a(n) = A174709(6n). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 26 2013
a(n) = (2*n-1)^2 - (n-1)^2. - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Apr 10 2013
a(6*a(n) + 16*n + 1) = a(6*a(n) + 16*n) + a(6*n + 1). - Vladimir Shevelev, Jan 24 2014
a(0) = 0, a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n-1} A005408(A051162(n-1,k)), n >= 1. - L. Edson Jeffery, Jul 28 2014
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = (sqrt(3)*Pi + 9*log(3))/12 = 1.2774090575596367311949534921... . - Vaclav Kotesovec, Apr 27 2016
From Ilya Gutkovskiy, Jul 29 2016: (Start)
Inverse binomial transform of A084857.
Sum_{n>=1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = Pi/(2*sqrt(3)) = A093766. (End)
a(n) = n * A016777(n-1) = A053755(n) - A000290(n+1). - Bruce J. Nicholson, Aug 10 2017
Product_{n>=2} (1 - 1/a(n)) = 3/4. - Amiram Eldar, Jan 21 2021
P(4k+4,n) = ((k+1)*n - k)^2 - (k*n - k)^2 where P(m,n) is the n-th m-gonal number (a generalization of the Apr 10 2013 formula, a(n) = (2*n-1)^2 - (n-1)^2). - Charlie Marion, Oct 07 2021
From Leo Tavares, Oct 31 2021: (Start)
a(n) = A000290(n) + 4*A000217(n-1). See Square Rays illustration.
a(n) = A000290(n) + A046092(n-1)
a(n) = A000384(n) + 2*A000217(n-1). See Twin Rectangular Rays illustration.
a(n) = A000384(n) + A002378(n-1)
a(n) = A003154(n) - A045944(n-1). See Star Rows illustration. (End)

Incorrect example removed by Joerg Arndt, Mar 11 2010

A001353 a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2) with a(0) = 0, a(1) = 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 4, 15, 56, 209, 780, 2911, 10864, 40545, 151316, 564719, 2107560, 7865521, 29354524, 109552575, 408855776, 1525870529, 5694626340, 21252634831, 79315912984, 296011017105, 1104728155436, 4122901604639, 15386878263120, 57424611447841, 214311567528244

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

3*a(n)^2 + 1 is a square. Moreover, 3*a(n)^2 + 1 = (2*a(n) - a(n-1))^2.
Consecutive terms give nonnegative solutions to x^2 - 4*x*y + y^2 = 1. - Max Alekseyev, Dec 12 2012
Values y solving the Pellian x^2 - 3*y^2 = 1; corresponding x values given by A001075(n). Moreover, we have a(n) = 2*a(n-1) + A001075(n-1). - Lekraj Beedassy, Jul 13 2006
Number of spanning trees in 2 X n grid: by examining what happens at the right-hand end we see that a(n) = 3*a(n-1) + 2*a(n-2) + 2*a(n-3) + ... + 2*a(1) + 1, where the final 1 corresponds to the tree ==...=| !. Solving this we get a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2).
Complexity of 2 X n grid.
A016064 also describes triangles whose sides are consecutive integers and in which an inscribed circle has an integer radius. A001353 is exactly and precisely mapped to the integer radii of such inscribed circles, i.e., for each term of A016064, the corresponding term of A001353 gives the radius of the inscribed circle. - Harvey P. Dale, Dec 28 2000
n such that 3*n^2 = floor(sqrt(3)*n*ceiling(sqrt(3)*n)). - Benoit Cloitre, May 10 2003
For n>0, ratios a(n+1)/a(n) may be obtained as convergents of the continued fraction expansion of 2+sqrt(3): either as successive convergents of [4;-4] or as odd convergents of [3;1, 2]. - Lekraj Beedassy, Sep 19 2003
Ways of packing a 3 X (2*n-1) rectangle with dominoes, after attaching an extra square to the end of one of the sides of length 3. With reference to A001835, therefore: a(n) = a(n-1) + A001835(n-1) and A001835(n) = 3*A001835(n-1) + 2*a(n-1). - Joshua Zucker and the Castilleja School Math Club, Oct 28 2003
a(n+1) is a Chebyshev transform of 4^n, where the sequence with g.f. G(x) is sent to the sequence with g.f. (1/(1+x^2))G(x/(1+x^2)). - Paul Barry, Oct 25 2004
This sequence is prime-free, because a(2n) = a(n) * (a(n+1)-a(n-1)) and a(2n+1) = a(n+1)^2 - a(n)^2 = (a(n+1)+a(n)) * (a(n+1)-a(n)). - Jianing Song, Jul 06 2019
Numbers such that there is an m with t(n+m) = 3*t(m), where t(n) are the triangular numbers A000217. For instance, t(35) = 3*t(20) = 630, so 35 - 20 = 15 is in the sequence. - Floor van Lamoen, Oct 13 2005
a(n) = number of distinct matrix products in (A + B + C + D)^n where commutator [A,B] = 0 but neither A nor B commutes with C or D. - Paul D. Hanna and Max Alekseyev, Feb 01 2006
For n > 1, middle side (or long leg) of primitive Pythagorean triangles having an angle nearing Pi/3 with larger values of sides. [Complete triple (X, Y, Z), X < Y < Z, is given by X = A120892(n), Y = a(n), Z = A120893(n), with recurrence relations X(i+1) = 2*{X(i) - (-1)^i} + a(i); Z(i+1) = 2*{Z(i) + a(i)} - (-1)^i.] - Lekraj Beedassy, Jul 13 2006
From Dennis P. Walsh, Oct 04 2006: (Start)
Number of 2 X n simple rectangular mazes. A simple rectangular m X n maze is a graph G with vertex set {0, 1, ..., m} X {0, 1, ..., n} that satisfies the following two properties: (i) G consists of two orthogonal trees; (ii) one tree has a path that sequentially connects (0,0),(0,1), ..., (0,n), (1,n), ...,(m-1,n) and the other tree has a path that sequentially connects (1,0), (2,0), ..., (m,0), (m,1), ..., (m,n). For example, a(2) = 4 because there are four 2 X 2 simple rectangular mazes:
                                          
   |  |  |        |   |       |     |        |   |
   |   |        |   |       |  ||        |   |
(End)
[1, 4, 15, 56, 209, ...] is the Hankel transform of [1, 1, 5, 26, 139, 758, ...](see A005573). - Philippe Deléham, Apr 14 2007
The upper principal convergents to 3^(1/2), beginning with 2/1, 7/4, 26/15, 97/56, comprise a strictly decreasing sequence; numerators=A001075, denominators=A001353. - Clark Kimberling, Aug 27 2008
From Gary W. Adamson, Jun 21 2009: (Start)
A001353 and A001835 = bisection of continued fraction [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, ...], i.e., of [1, 3, 4, 11, 15, 41, ...].
For n>0, a(n) equals the determinant of an (n-1) X (n-1) tridiagonal matrix with ones in the super and subdiagonals and (4, 4, 4, ...) as the main diagonal. [Corrected by Johannes Boot, Sep 04 2011]
A001835 and A001353 = right and next to right borders of triangle A125077. (End)
a(n) is equal to the permanent of the (n-1) X (n-1) Hessenberg matrix with 4's along the main diagonal, i's along the superdiagonal and the subdiagonal (i is the imaginary unit), and 0's everywhere else. - John M. Campbell, Jun 09 2011
2a(n) is the number of n-color compositions of 2n consisting of only even parts; see Guo in references. - Brian Hopkins, Jul 19 2011
Pisano period lengths: 1, 2, 6, 4, 3, 6, 8, 4, 18, 6, 10, 12, 12, 8, 6, 8, 18, 18, 5, 12, ... - R. J. Mathar, Aug 10 2012
From Michel Lagneau, Jul 08 2014: (Start)
a(n) is defined also by the recurrence a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n+1) = 2*a(n) + sqrt(3*a(n)^2 + 1) where a(n) is an integer for every n. This sequence is generalizable by the sequence b(n,m) of parameter m with the initial condition b(1,m) = 1, and for n > 1 b(n+1,m) = m*b(n,m) + sqrt((m^2 - 1)*b(n,m)^2 + 1) for m = 2, 3, 4, ... where b(n,m) is an integer for every n.
The first corresponding sequences are
   b(n,2)  = a(n) = A001353(n);
   b(n,3)  = A001109(n);
   b(n,4)  = A001090(n);
   b(n,5)  = A004189(n);
   b(n,6)  = A004191(n);
   b(n,7)  = A007655(n);
   b(n,8)  = A077412(n);
   b(n,9)  = A049660(n);
   b(n,10) = A075843(n);
   b(n,11) = A077421(n);
   ....................
We obtain a general sequence of polynomials {b(n,x)} = {1, 2*x, 4*x^2 - 1, 8*x^3 - 4*x, 16*x^4 - 12*x^2 + 1, 32*x^5 - 32*x^3 + 6*x, ...} with x = m where each b(n,x) is a Gegenbauer polynomial defined by the recurrence b(n,x)- 2*x*b(n-1,x) + b(n-2,x) = 0, the same relation as the Chebyshev recurrence, but with the initial conditions b(x,0) = 1 and b(x,1) = 2*x instead b(x,0) = 1 and b(x,1) = x for the Chebyshev polynomials. (End)
If a(n) denotes the n-th term of the above sequence and we construct a triangle whose sides are a(n) - 1, a(n) + 1 and sqrt(3a(n)^2 + 1), then, for every n the measure of one of the angles of the triangle so constructed will always be 120 degrees. This result of ours was published in Mathematics Spectrum (2012/2013), Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 126-128. - K. S. Bhanu and Dr. M. N. Deshpande, Professor (Retd), Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Nagpur (India).
For n >= 1, a(n) equals the number of 01-avoiding words of length n - 1 on alphabet {0, 1, 2, 3}. - Milan Janjic, Jan 25 2015
For n > 0, 10*a(n) is the number of vertices and roots on level n of the {4, 5} mosaic (see L. Németh Table 1 p. 6). - Michel Marcus, Oct 30 2015
(2 + sqrt(3))^n = A001075(n) + a(n)*sqrt(3), n >= 0; integers in the quadratic number field Q(sqrt(3)). - Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 16 2018
A strong divisibility sequence, that is, gcd(a(n), a(m)) = a(gcd(n, m)) for all positive integers n and m. - Michael Somos, Dec 12 2019
The Cholesky decomposition A = C C* for tridiagonal A with A[i,i] = 4 and A[i+1,i] = A[i,i+1] = -1, as it arises in the discretized 2D Laplace operator (Poisson equation...), has nonzero elements C[i,i] = sqrt(a(i+1)/a(i)) = -1/C[i+1,i], i = 1, 2, 3, ... - M. F. Hasler, Mar 12 2021
The triples (a(n-1), 2a(n), a(n+1)), n=2,3,..., are exactly the triples (a,b,c) of positive integers a < b < c in arithmetic progression such that a*b+1, b*c+1, and c*a+1 are perfect squares. - Bernd Mulansky, Jul 10 2021
From Greg Dresden and Linyun Sheng, Jul 01 2025: (Start)
  a(n) is the number of ways to tile this strip of length n,
  .________________
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\
  ||__||__||__|_\,
  where the last cell is a right triangle, with three types of tiles: 1 X 1 squares, 1 X 1 small right triangles, and large right triangles (with large side length 2) formed by joining two of those small right triangles along a short leg. As an example, here is one of the a(7)=2911 ways to tile the 1 X 7 strip with these kinds of tiles:
  .________________
  |\   /|\ | /|  | / \
  |\/_|\|/|__|/_\,
(End)

			For example, when n = 3:
  ****
  .***
  .***
can be packed with dominoes in 4 different ways: 3 in which the top row is tiled with two horizontal dominoes and 1 in which the top row has two vertical and one horizontal domino, as shown below, so a(2) = 4.
  ---- ---- ---- ||--
  .||| .--| .|-- .|||
  .||| .--| .|-- .|||
G.f. = x + 4*x^2 + 15*x^3 + 56*x^4 + 209*x^5 + 780*x^6 + 2911*x^7 + 10864*x^8 + ...

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N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
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Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,-1)
Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.

Cf. A001075, A001542, A001571, A001834, A001835, A002531, A003500, A005246, A016064, A019679, A079935, A082840.
A bisection of A002530.
Cf. A125077.
A row of A116469.
Chebyshev sequence U(n, m): A000027 (m=1), this sequence (m=2), A001109 (m=3), A001090 (m=4), A004189 (m=5), A004191 (m=6), A007655 (m=7), A077412 (m=8), A049660 (m=9), A075843 (m=10), A077421 (m=11), A077423 (m=12), A097309 (m=13), A097311 (m=14), A097313 (m=15), A029548 (m=16), A029547 (m=17), A144128 (m=18), A078987 (m=19), A097316 (m=33).
Cf. A323182.

a:=[0,1];; for n in [3..30] do a[n]:=4*a[n-1]-a[n-2]; od; a; # Muniru A Asiru, Feb 16 2018

a001353 n = a001353_list !! n
a001353_list =
   0 : 1 : zipWith (-) (map (4 *) $ tail a001353_list) a001353_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 14 2011

I:=[0,1]; [n le 2 select I[n] else 4*Self(n-1)-Self(n-2): n in [1..30]]; // G. C. Greubel, Jun 06 2019

A001353 := proc(n) option remember; if n <= 1 then n else 4*A001353(n-1)-A001353(n-2); fi; end;
A001353:=z/(1-4*z+z**2); # Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.
seq( simplify(ChebyshevU(n-1, 2)), n=0..20); # G. C. Greubel, Dec 23 2019

a[n_] := (MatrixPower[{{1, 2}, {1, 3}}, n].{{1}, {1}})[[2, 1]]; Table[ a[n], {n, 0, 30}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 13 2005 *)
Table[GegenbauerC[n-1, 1, 2], {n, 0, 30}] (* Zerinvary Lajos, Jul 14 2009 *)
Table[-((I Sin[n ArcCos[2]])/Sqrt[3]), {n, 0, 30}] // FunctionExpand (* Eric W. Weisstein, Jul 16 2011 *)
Table[Sinh[n ArcCosh[2]]/Sqrt[3], {n, 0, 30}] // FunctionExpand (* Eric W. Weisstein, Jul 16 2011 *)
Table[ChebyshevU[n-1, 2], {n, 0, 30}] (* Eric W. Weisstein, Jul 16 2011 *)
a[0]:=0; a[1]:=1; a[n_]:= a[n]= 4a[n-1] - a[n-2]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 30}] (* Alonso del Arte, Jul 19 2011 *)
LinearRecurrence[{4, -1}, {0, 1}, 30] (* Sture Sjöstedt, Dec 06 2011 *)
Round@Table[Fibonacci[2n, Sqrt[2]]/Sqrt[2], {n, 0, 30}] (* Vladimir Reshetnikov, Sep 15 2016 *)

M = [ 1, 1, 0; 1, 3, 1; 0, 1, 1]; for(i=0,30,print1(([1,0,0]*M^i)[2],",")) \\ Lambert Klasen (Lambert.Klasen(AT)gmx.net), Jan 25 2005

{a(n) = real( (2 + quadgen(12))^n / quadgen(12) )}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 19 2008 */

{a(n) = polchebyshev(n-1, 2, 2)}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 19 2008 */

concat(0, Vec(x/(1-4*x+x^2) + O(x^30))) \\ Altug Alkan, Oct 30 2015

a001353 = [0, 1]
for n in range(30): a001353.append(4*a001353[-1] - a001353[-2])
print(a001353)  # Gennady Eremin, Feb 05 2022

[lucas_number1(n,4,1) for n in range(30)] # Zerinvary Lajos, Apr 22 2009

[chebyshev_U(n-1,2) for n in (0..20)] # G. C. Greubel, Dec 23 2019

G.f.: x/(1-4*x+x^2).
a(n) = ((2 + sqrt(3))^n - (2 - sqrt(3))^n)/(2*sqrt(3)).
a(n) = sqrt((A001075(n)^2 - 1)/3).
a(n) = 2*a(n-1) + sqrt(3*a(n-1)^2 + 1). - Lekraj Beedassy, Feb 18 2002
Limit_{n->oo} a(n)/a(n-1) = 2 + sqrt(3). - Gregory V. Richardson, Oct 06 2002
Binomial transform of A002605.
E.g.f.: exp(2*x)*sinh(sqrt(3)*x)/sqrt(3).
a(n) = S(n-1, 4) = U(n-1, 2); S(-1, x) := 0, Chebyshev's polynomials of the second kind A049310.
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} binomial(n-k, k)(-1)^k*4^(n - 2*k). - Paul Barry, Oct 25 2004
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n-1} binomial(n+k,2*k+1)*2^k. - Paul Barry, Nov 30 2004
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) + 3*a(n-2) - a(n-3), n>=3. - Lekraj Beedassy, Jul 13 2006
a(n) = -A106707(n). - R. J. Mathar, Jul 07 2006
M^n * [1,0] = [A001075(n), A001353(n)], where M = the 2 X 2 matrix [2,3; 1,2]; e.g., a(4) = 56 since M^4 * [1,0] = [97, 56] = [A001075(4), A001353(4)]. - Gary W. Adamson, Dec 27 2006
From Michael Somos, Sep 19 2008: (Start)
Sequence satisfies 1 = f(a(n), a(n+1)) where f(u, v) = u^2 + v^2 - 4*u*v.
a(n) = -a(-n) for all integer n. (End)
Rational recurrence: a(n) = (17*a(n-1)*a(n-2) - 4*(a(n-1)^2 + a(n-2)^2))/a(n-3) for n > 3. - Jaume Oliver Lafont, Dec 05 2009
If p[i] = Fibonacci(2i) and if A is the Hessenberg matrix of order n defined by A[i,j] = p[j-i+1], (i <= j), A[i,j] = -1, (i = j + 1), and A[i,j] = 0 otherwise, then, for n >= 1, a(n) = det A. - Milan Janjic, May 08 2010
From Eric W. Weisstein, Jul 16 2011: (Start)
a(n) = C_{n-1}^{(1)}(2), where C_n^{(m)}(x) is the Gegenbauer polynomial.
a(n) = -i*sin(n*arccos(2))/sqrt(3).
a(n) = sinh(n*arccosh(2))/sqrt(3). (End)
a(n) = b such that Integral_{x=0..Pi/2} (sin(n*x))/(2-cos(x)) dx = c + b*log(2). - Francesco Daddi, Aug 02 2011
a(n) = sqrt(A098301(n)) = sqrt([A055793 / 3]), base 3 analog of A031150. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 16 2012
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} A101950(n,k)*3^k. - Philippe Deléham, Feb 10 2012
1, 4, 15, 56, 209, ... = INVERT(INVERT(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...)). - David Callan, Oct 13 2012
From Peter Bala, Dec 23 2012: (Start)
Product_{n >= 1} (1 + 1/a(n)) = 1 + sqrt(3).
Product_{n >= 2} (1 - 1/a(n)) = 1/4*(1 + sqrt(3)). (End)
a(n+1) = (A001834(n) + A001835(n))/2. a(n+1) + a(n) = A001834(n). a(n+1) - a(n) = A001835(n). - Richard R. Forberg, Sep 04 2013
a(n) = -(-i)^(n+1)*Fibonacci(n, 4*i), i = sqrt(-1). - G. C. Greubel, Jun 06 2019
a(n)^2 - a(m)^2 = a(n+m) * a(n-m), a(n+2)*a(n-2) = 16*a(n+1)*a(n-1) - 15*a(n)^2, a(n+3)*a(n-2) = 15*a(n+2)*a(n-1) - 14*a(n+1)*a(n) for all integer n, m. - Michael Somos, Dec 12 2019
a(n) = 2^n*Sum_{k >= n} binomial(2*k,2*n-1)*(1/3)^(k+1). Cf. A102591. - Peter Bala, Nov 29 2021
a(n) = Sum_{k > 0} (-1)^((k-1)/2)*binomial(2*n, n+k)*(k|12), where (k|12) is the Kronecker symbol. - Greg Dresden, Oct 11 2022
Sum_{k=0..n} a(k) = (a(n+1) - a(n) - 1)/2. - Prabha Sivaramannair, Sep 22 2023
a(2n+1) = A001835(n+1) * A001834(n). - M. Farrokhi D. G., Oct 15 2023
Sum_{n>=1} arctan(1/(4*a(n)^2)) = Pi/12 (A019679) (Ohtskua, 2024). - Amiram Eldar, Aug 29 2024
From Peter Bala, May 21 2025: (Start)
Product_{n >= 1} (1 + 1/a(n))^2 = 2*(2 + sqrt(3)) (telescoping product: (1 + 1/a(2*n-1))^2 * (1 + 1/a(2*n-2))^2 = (4 + 2*A251963(n)/A005246(2*n)^2)/(4 + 2*A251963(n-1)/A005246(2*n-2)^2) ).
Product_{n >= 2} (1 - 1/a(n))^2 = (1/8)*(2 + sqrt(3)).
Product_{n >= 1} ((a(2*n) + 1)/(a(2*n) - 1))^2 = 3 (telescoping product: ((a(2*n) + 1)/(a(2*n) - 1))^2 = (3 - 2/A001835(n+1)^2)/(3 - 2/A001835(n)^2) ).
Product_{n >= 2} ((a(2*n-1) + 1)/(a(2*n-1) - 1))^2 = 4/3.
The o.g.f. A(x) satisfies A(x) + A(-x) + 8*A(x)*A(-x) = 0. The o.g.f. for A007655 equals -A(sqrt(x))*A(-sqrt(x)). (End)

A001075 a(0) = 1, a(1) = 2, a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 7, 26, 97, 362, 1351, 5042, 18817, 70226, 262087, 978122, 3650401, 13623482, 50843527, 189750626, 708158977, 2642885282, 9863382151, 36810643322, 137379191137, 512706121226, 1913445293767, 7141075053842, 26650854921601, 99462344632562, 371198523608647

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Chebyshev's T(n,x) polynomials evaluated at x=2.
x = 2^n - 1 is prime if and only if x divides a(2^(n-2)).
Any k in the sequence is succeeded by 2*k + sqrt{3*(k^2 - 1)}. - Lekraj Beedassy, Jun 28 2002
For all elements x of the sequence, 12*x^2 - 12 is a square. Lim_{n -> infinity} a(n)/a(n-1) = 2 + sqrt(3) = (4 + sqrt(12))/2 which preserves the kinship with the equation "12*x^2 - 12 is a square" where the initial "12" ends up appearing as a square root. - Gregory V. Richardson, Oct 10 2002
This sequence gives the values of x in solutions of the Diophantine equation x^2 - 3*y^2 = 1; the corresponding values of y are in A001353. The solution ratios a(n)/A001353(n) are obtained as convergents of the continued fraction expansion of sqrt(3): either as successive convergents of [2;-4] or as odd convergents of [1;1,2]. - Lekraj Beedassy, Sep 19 2003 [edited by Jon E. Schoenfield, May 04 2014]
a(n) is half the central value in a list of three consecutive integers, the lengths of the sides of a triangle with integer sides and area. - Eugene McDonnell (eemcd(AT)mac.com), Oct 19 2003
a(3+6*k) - 1 and a(3+6*k) + 1 are consecutive odd powerful numbers. See A076445. - T. D. Noe, May 04 2006
The intermediate convergents to 3^(1/2), beginning with 3/2, 12/7, 45/26, 168/97, comprise a strictly increasing sequence; essentially, numerators=A005320, denominators=A001075. - Clark Kimberling, Aug 27 2008
The upper principal convergents to 3^(1/2), beginning with 2/1, 7/4, 26/15, 97/56, comprise a strictly decreasing sequence; numerators=A001075, denominators=A001353. - Clark Kimberling, Aug 27 2008
a(n+1) is the Hankel transform of A000108(n) + A000984(n) = (n+2)*Catalan(n). - Paul Barry, Aug 11 2009
Also, numbers such that floor(a(n)^2/3) is a square: base 3 analog of A031149, A204502, A204514, A204516, A204518, A204520, A004275, A001541. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 15 2012
Pisano period lengths:  1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 2, 8, 4, 6, 6, 10, 4, 12, 8, 6, 8, 18, 6, 5, 12, ... - R. J. Mathar, Aug 10 2012
Except for the first term, positive values of x (or y) satisfying x^2 - 4*x*y + y^2 + 3 = 0. - Colin Barker, Feb 04 2014
Except for the first term, positive values of x (or y) satisfying x^2 - 14*x*y + y^2 + 48 = 0. - Colin Barker, Feb 10 2014
A triangle with row sums generating the sequence can be constructed by taking the production matrix M. Take powers of M, extracting the top rows.
M =
  1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
  2, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, ...
  2, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, ...
  2, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, ...
  2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, ...
  ...
The triangle generated from M is:
   1,
   1,  1,
   3,  1, 3,
  11,  3, 3, 9,
  41, 11, 9, 9, 27,
   ...
The left border is A001835 and row sums are (1, 2, 7, 26, 97, ...). - Gary W. Adamson, Jul 25 2016
Even-indexed terms are odd while odd-indexed terms are even. Indeed, a(2*n) = 2*(a(n))^2 - 1 and a(2*n+1) = 2*a(n)*a(n+1) - 2. - Timothy L. Tiffin, Oct 11 2016
For each n, a(0) divides a(n), a(1) divides a(2n+1), a(2) divides a(4*n+2), a(3) divides a(6*n+3), a(4) divides a(8*n+4), a(5) divides a(10n+5), and so on. Thus, a(k) divides a((2*n+1)*k) for each k > 0 and n >= 0. A proof of this can be found in Bhargava-Kedlaya-Ng's first solution to Problem A2 of the 76th Putnam Mathematical Competition. Links to the exam and its solutions can be found below. - Timothy L. Tiffin, Oct 12 2016
From Timothy L. Tiffin, Oct 21 2016: (Start)
If any term a(n) is a prime number, then its index n will be a power of 2. This is a consequence of the results given in the previous two comments. See A277434 for those prime terms.
a(2n) == 1 (mod 6) and a(2*n+1) == 2 (mod 6). Consequently, each odd prime factor of a(n) will be congruent to 1 modulo 6 and, thus, found in A002476.
a(n) == 1 (mod 10) if n == 0 (mod 6), a(n) == 2 (mod 10) if n == {1,-1} (mod 6), a(n) == 7 (mod 10) if n == {2,-2} (mod 6), and a(n) == 6 (mod 10) if n == 3 (mod 6). So, the rightmost digits of a(n) form a repeating cycle of length 6: 1, 2, 7, 6, 7, 2. (End)
a(A298211(n)) = A002350(3*n^2). - A.H.M. Smeets, Jan 25 2018
(2 + sqrt(3))^n = a(n) + A001353(n)*sqrt(3), n >= 0; integers in the quadratic number field Q(sqrt(3)). - Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 16 2018
Yong Hao Ng has shown that for any n, a(n) is coprime with any member of A001834 and with any member of A001835. - René Gy, Feb 26 2018
Positive numbers k such that 3*(k-1)*(k+1) is a square. - Davide Rotondo, Oct 25 2020
a(n)*a(n+1)-1 = a(2*n+1)/2 = A001570(n) divides both a(n)^6+1 and a(n+1)^6+1. In other words, for k = a(2*n+1)/2, (k+1)^6 has divisors congruent to -1 modulo k (cf. A350916). - Max Alekseyev, Jan 23 2022

			2^6 - 1 = 63 does not divide a(2^4) = 708158977, therefore 63 is composite. 2^5 - 1 = 31 divides a(2^3) = 18817, therefore 31 is prime.
G.f. = 1 + 2*x + 7*x^2 + 26*x^3 + 97*x^4 + 362*x^5 + 1351*x^6 + 5042*x^7 + ...

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Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
F. V. Waugh and M. W. Maxfield, Side-and-diagonal numbers, Math. Mag., 40 (1967), 74-83.
Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.
Index entries for two-way infinite sequences
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,-1).

Bisections are A011943 and A094347.

Cf. A001353, A065918, A071954, A001571, A001834, A003500, A016064, A082840, A026150, A277434.

a001075 n = a001075_list !! n
a001075_list =
   1 : 2 : zipWith (-) (map (4 *) $ tail a001075_list) a001075_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 11 2011

I:=[1, 2]; [n le 2 select I[n] else 4*Self(n-1) - Self(n-2): n in [1..30]]; // G. C. Greubel, Dec 19 2017

A001075 := proc(n)
    orthopoly[T](n,2) ;
end proc:
seq(A001075(n),n=0..30) ; # R. J. Mathar, Apr 14 2018

Table[ Ceiling[(1/2)*(2 + Sqrt[3])^n], {n, 0, 24}]
CoefficientList[Series[(1-2*x) / (1-4*x+x^2), {x, 0, 24}], x] (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 21 2011, after Simon Plouffe *)
LinearRecurrence[{4,-1},{1,2},30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 22 2015 *)
Round@Table[LucasL[2n, Sqrt[2]]/2, {n, 0, 20}] (* Vladimir Reshetnikov, Sep 15 2016 *)
ChebyshevT[Range[0, 20], 2] (* Eric W. Weisstein, May 26 2017 *)
a[ n_] := LucasL[2*n, x]/2 /. x->Sqrt[2]; (* Michael Somos, Sep 05 2022 *)

{a(n) = subst(poltchebi(abs(n)), x, 2)};

{a(n) = real((2 + quadgen(12))^abs(n))};

{a(n) = polsym(1 - 4*x + x^2, abs(n))[1 + abs(n)]/2};

a(n)=polchebyshev(n,1,2) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 07 2016

my(x='x+O('x^30)); Vec((1-2*x)/(1-4*x+x^2)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Dec 19 2017

[lucas_number2(n,4,1)/2 for n in range(0, 25)] # Zerinvary Lajos, May 14 2009

def a(n):
    Q = QuadraticField(3, 't')
    u = Q.units()[0]
    return (u^n).lift().coeffs()[0]  # Ralf Stephan, Jun 19 2014

G.f.: (1 - 2*x)/(1 - 4*x + x^2). - Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
E.g.f.: exp(2*x)*cosh(sqrt(3)*x).
a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2) = a(-n).
a(n) = (S(n, 4) - S(n-2, 4))/2 = T(n, 2), with S(n, x) := U(n, x/2), S(-1, x) := 0, S(-2, x) := -1. U, resp. T, are Chebyshev's polynomials of the second, resp. first, kind. S(n-1, 4) = A001353(n), n >= 0. See A049310 and A053120.
a(n) = A001353(n+2) - 2*A001353(n+1).
a(n) = sqrt(1 + 3*A001353(n)) (cf. Richardson comment, Oct 10 2002).
a(n) = 2^(-n)*Sum_{k>=0} binomial(2*n, 2*k)*3^k = 2^(-n)*Sum_{k>=0} A086645(n, k)*3^k. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 01 2004
a(n) = ((2 + sqrt(3))^n + (2 - sqrt(3))^n)/2; a(n) = ceiling((1/2)*(2 + sqrt(3))^(n)).
a(n) = cosh(n * log(2 + sqrt(3))).
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} binomial(n, 2*k)*2^(n-2*k)*3^k. - Paul Barry, May 08 2003
a(n+2) = 2*a(n+1) + 3*Sum_{k>=0} a(n-k)*2^k. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 03 2004
a(n) = 2*a(n-1) + 3*A001353(n-1). - Lekraj Beedassy, Jul 21 2006
a(n) = left term of M^n * [1,0] where M = the 2 X 2 matrix [2,3; 1,2]. Right term = A001353(n). Example: a(4) = 97 since M^4 * [1,0] = [A001075(4), A001353(4)] = [97, 56]. - Gary W. Adamson, Dec 27 2006
Binomial transform of A026150: (1, 1, 4, 10, 28, 76, ...). - Gary W. Adamson, Nov 23 2007
First differences of A001571. - N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 03 2009
Sequence satisfies -3 = f(a(n), a(n+1)) where f(u, v) = u^2 + v^2 - 4*u*v. - Michael Somos, Sep 19 2008
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} A201730(n,k)*2^k. - Philippe Deléham, Dec 06 2011
G.f.: G(0)/2, where G(k) = 1 + 1/(1 - x*(3*k - 4)/(x*(3*k - 1) - 2/G(k+1))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, May 28 2013
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} A238731(n,k). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 05 2014
a(n) = (-1)^n*(A125905(n) + 2*A125905(n-1)), n > 0. - Franck Maminirina Ramaharo, Nov 11 2018
a(n) = (tan(Pi/12)^n + tan(5*Pi/12)^n)/2. - Greg Dresden, Oct 01 2020
From Peter Bala, Aug 17 2022: (Start)
a(n) = (1/2)^n * [x^n] ( 4*x + sqrt(1 + 12*x^2) )^n.
The g.f. A(x) satisfies A(2*x) = 1 + x*B'(x)/B(x), where B(x) = 1/sqrt(1 - 8*x + 4*x^2) is the g.f. of A069835.
The Gauss congruences a(n*p^k) == a(n*p^(k-1)) (mod p^k) hold for all primes p >= 3 and positive integers n and k.
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n) - (3/2)/a(n)) = 1.
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n) + (1/2)/a(n)) = 1/3.
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n)^2 - 3/2) = 1 - 1/sqrt(3). (End)
a(n) = binomial(2*n, n) + 2*Sum_{k > 0} binomial(2*n, n+2*k)*cos(k*Pi/3). - Greg Dresden, Oct 11 2022
2*a(n) + 2^n = 3*Sum_{k=-n..n} (-1)^k*binomial(2*n, n+6*k). - Greg Dresden, Feb 07 2023

More terms from James Sellers, Jul 10 2000

Chebyshev comments from Wolfdieter Lang, Oct 31 2002

A001834 a(0) = 1, a(1) = 5, a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 5, 19, 71, 265, 989, 3691, 13775, 51409, 191861, 716035, 2672279, 9973081, 37220045, 138907099, 518408351, 1934726305, 7220496869, 26947261171, 100568547815, 375326930089, 1400739172541, 5227629760075, 19509779867759, 72811489710961, 271736178976085

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Sequence also gives values of x satisfying 3*y^2 - x^2 = 2, the corresponding y being given by A001835(n+1). Moreover, quadruples(p, q, r, s) satisfying p^2 + q^2 + r^2 = s^2, where p = q and r is either p+1 or p-1, are termed nearly isosceles Pythagorean and are given by p = {x + (-1)^n}/3, r = p-(-1)^n, s = y for n > 1. - Lekraj Beedassy, Jul 19 2002
a(n)= A002531(1+2*n). - Anton Vrba (antonvrba(AT)yahoo.com), Feb 14 2007
361 written in base A001835(n+1) - 1 is the square of a(n). E.g., a(12) = 2672279, A001835(13) - 1 = 1542840. We have 361_(1542840) = 3*1542840 + 6*1542840 + 1 = 2672279^2. - Richard Choulet, Oct 04 2007
The lower principal convergents to 3^(1/2), beginning with 1/1, 5/3, 19/11, 71/41, comprise a strictly increasing sequence; numerators=A001834, denominators=A001835. - Clark Kimberling, Aug 27 2008
General recurrence is a(n) = (a(1) - 1)*a(n-1) - a(n-2), a(1) >= 4, lim_{n->infinity} a(n) = x*(k*x + 1)^n, k = (a(1) - 3), x = (1 + sqrt((a(1) + 1)/(a(1) - 3)))/2. Examples in OEIS: a(1) = 4 gives A002878, primes in it A121534. a(1) = 5 gives A001834, primes in it A086386. a(1) = 6 gives A030221, primes in it A299109. a(1) = 7 gives A002315, primes in it A088165. a(1) = 8 gives A033890, primes in it not in OEIS (do there exist any?). a(1) = 9 gives A057080, primes in {71, 34649, 16908641, ...}. a(1) = 10 gives A057081, primes in it {389806471, 192097408520951, ...}. - Ctibor O. Zizka, Sep 02 2008
Inverse binomial transform of A030192. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 19 2009
For positive n, a(n) equals the permanent of the (2*n) X (2*n) tridiagonal matrix with sqrt(6)'s along the main diagonal, and i's along the superdiagonal and the subdiagonal (i is the imaginary unit). - John M. Campbell, Jul 08 2011
x-values in the solution to 3x^2 + 6 = y^2 (see A082841 for the y-values). - Sture Sjöstedt, Nov 25 2011
Pisano period lengths: 1, 1, 2, 4, 3, 2, 8, 4, 6, 3, 10, 4, 12, 8, 6, 8, 18, 6, 5, 12, ... - R. J. Mathar, Aug 10 2012
The aerated sequence (b(n))A100047%20for%20a%20connection%20with%20Chebyshev%20polynomials.%20-%20_Peter%20Bala">{n>=1} = [1, 0, 5, 0, 19, 0, 71, 0, ...] is a fourth-order linear divisibility sequence; that is, if n | m then b(n) | b(m). It is the case P1 = 0, P2 = -2, Q = -1 of the 3-parameter family of divisibility sequences found by Williams and Guy. See A100047 for a connection with Chebyshev polynomials. - _Peter Bala, Mar 22 2015
Yong Hao Ng has shown that for any n, a(n) is coprime with any member of A001835 and with any member of A001075. - René Gy, Feb 26 2018
From Wolfdieter Lang, Oct 15 2020: (Start)
((-1)^n)*a(n) = X(n) = (-1)^n*(S(n, 4) + S(n-1, 4)) and Y(n) = X(n-1) gives all integer solutions (modulo sign flip between X and Y) of X^2 + Y^2 + 4*X*Y = +6, for n = -oo..+oo, with Chebyshev S polynomials (see A049310), with S(-1, x) = 0, and S(-|n|, x) = - S(|n|-2, x), for |n| >= 2.
This binary indefinite quadratic form of discriminant 12, representing 6, has only this family of proper solutions (modulo sign flip), and no improper ones.
This comment is inspired by a paper by Robert K. Moniot (private communication). See his Oct 04 2020 comment in A027941 related to the case of x^2 + y^2 - 3*x*y = -1 (special Markov solutions). (End)
Floretion Algebra Multiplication Program, FAMP Code: A001834 = (4/3)vesseq[ - .25'i + 1.25'j - .25'k - .25i' + 1.25j' - .25k' + 1.25'ii' + .25'jj' - .75'kk' + .75'ij' + .25'ik' + .75'ji' - .25'jk' + .25'ki' - .25'kj' + .25e], apart from initial term

			G.f. = 1 + 5*x + 19*x^2 + 71*x^3 + 265*x^4 + 989*x^5 + 3691*x^6 + ...

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Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,-1).

A bisection of sequence A002531.
Cf. A001352, A001835, A086386 (prime members).
Cf. A026150.
Cf. A082841, A100047.
Cf. A002531, A001353, A049310.
a(n)^2+1 = A094347(n+1).

a001834 n = a001834_list !! (n-1)
a001834_list = 1 : 5 : zipWith (-) (map (* 4) $ tail a001834_list) a001834_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 23 2012

I:=[1,5]; [n le 2 select I[n] else 4*Self(n-1)-Self(n-2): n in [1..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Mar 22 2015

f:=n->((1+sqrt(3))^(2*n+1)+(1-sqrt(3))^(2*n+1))/2^(n+1); # N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 10 2009

a[0] = 1; a[1] = 5; a[n_] := a[n] = 4a[n - 1] - a[n - 2]; Table[ a[n], {n, 0, 25}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Apr 24 2004 *)
Table[Expand[((1+Sqrt[3])^(2*n+1)+(1+Sqrt[3])^(2*n+1))/2^(n+1)],{n, 0, 20}] (* Anton Vrba, Feb 14 2007 *)
LinearRecurrence[{4, -1}, {1, 5}, 50] (* Sture Sjöstedt, Nov 27 2011 *)
a[c_, n_] := Module[{},
   p := Length[ContinuedFraction[ Sqrt[ c]][[2]]];
   d := Numerator[Convergents[Sqrt[c], n p]];
   t := Table[d[[1 + i]], {i, 0, Length[d] - 1, p}];
   Return[t];
] (* Complement of A002531 *)
a[3, 20] (* Gerry Martens, Jun 07 2015 *)
Round@Table[LucasL[2n+1, Sqrt[2]]/Sqrt[2], {n, 0, 20}] (* Vladimir Reshetnikov, Sep 15 2016 *)

{a(n) = real( (2 + quadgen(12))^n * (1 + quadgen(12)) )}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 19 2008 */

{a(n) = subst( polchebyshev(n-1, 2) + polchebyshev(n, 2), x, 2)}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 19 2008 */

[(lucas_number2(n,4,1)-lucas_number2(n-1,4,1))/2 for n in range(1, 27)] # Zerinvary Lajos, Nov 10 2009

a(n) = ((1 + sqrt(3))^(2*n + 1) + (1 - sqrt(3))^(2*n + 1))/2^(n + 1). - N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 10 2009
a(n) = (1/2) * ((1 + sqrt(3))*(2 + sqrt(3))^n + (1 - sqrt(3))*(2 - sqrt(3))^n). - Dean Hickerson, Dec 01 2002
From Mario Catalani, Apr 11 2003: (Start)
With a = 2 + sqrt(3), b = 2 - sqrt(3): a(n) = (1/sqrt(2))(a^(n + 1/2) - b^(n + 1/2)).
a(n) - a(n-1) = A003500(n).
a(n) = sqrt(1 + 12*A061278(n) + 12*A061278(n)^2). (End)
a(n) = ((1 + sqrt(3))^(2*n + 1) + (1 - sqrt(3))^(2*n + 1))/2^(n + 1). - Anton Vrba, Feb 14 2007
G.f.: (1 + x)/((1 - 4*x + x^2)). Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.
a(n) = S(2*n, sqrt(6)) = S(n, 4) + S(n-1, 4); S(n, x) := U(n, x/2), Chebyshev polynomials of 2nd kind, A049310. S(n, 4) = A001353(n).
For all members x of the sequence, 3*x^2 + 6 is a square. Limit_{n->infinity} a(n)/a(n-1) = 2 + sqrt(3). - Gregory V. Richardson, Oct 10 2002
a(n) = 2*A001571(n) + 1. - Bruce Corrigan (scentman(AT)myfamily.com), Nov 04 2002
Let q(n, x) = Sum_{i=0..n} x^(n - i)*binomial(2*n - i, i); then (-1)^n*q(n, -6) = a(n). - Benoit Cloitre, Nov 10 2002
a(n) = 2^(-n)*Sum_{k>=0} binomial(2*n + 1, 2*k)*3^k; see A091042. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 01 2004
a(n) = floor(sqrt(3)*A001835(n+1)). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 03 2004
a(n+1) - 2*a(n) = 3*A001835(n+1). Using the known relation A001835(n+1) = sqrt((a(n)^2 + 2)/3) it follows that a(n+1) - 2*a(n) = sqrt(3*(a(n)^2 + 2)). Therefore a(n+1)^2 + a(n)^2 - 4*a(n+1)*a(n) - 6 = 0. - Creighton Dement, Apr 18 2005
a(n) = L(n,-4)*(-1)^n, where L is defined as in A108299; see also A001835 for L(n,+4). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 01 2005
a(n) = Jacobi_P(n, 1/2, -1/2, 2)/Jacobi_P(n, -1/2, 1/2, 1). - Paul Barry, Feb 03 2006
Equals binomial transform of A026150 starting (1, 4, 10, 28, 76, ...) and double binomial transform of (1, 3, 3, 9, 9, 27, 27, 81, 81, ...). - Gary W. Adamson, Nov 30 2007
Sequence satisfies 6 = f(a(n), a(n+1)) where f(u, v) = u^2 + v^2 - 4*u*v. - Michael Somos, Sep 19 2008
a(-1-n) = -a(n). - Michael Somos, Sep 19 2008
From Franck Maminirina Ramaharo, Nov 11 2018: (Start)
a(n) = (-1)^n*(5*A125905(n) + A125905(n+1)).
E.g.f.: exp(2*x)*(cosh(sqrt(3)*x) + sqrt(3)*sinh(sqrt(3)*x)). (End)
a(n) = A061278(n+1) - A061278(n-1) for n>=2. - John P. McSorley, Jun 20 2020
From Peter Bala, May 09 2025: (Start)
a(n) = Dir(n, 2), where Dir(n, x) denotes the n-th row polynomial of the triangle A244419.
a(n) - 2*a(n-1) = 3 * A001835(n) for n >= 1.
For arbitrary x, a(n+x)^2 - 4*a(n+x)*a(n+x+1) + a(n+x+1)^2 = 6 with a(n) := (1/2) * ((1 + sqrt(3))*(2 + sqrt(3))^n + (1 - sqrt(3))*(2 - sqrt(3))^n) as above. The particular case x = 0 is noted above,
a(n+1/2) = sqrt(6) * A001353(n+1).
a(n+3/4) + a(n+1/4) = sqrt(6*sqrt(6) + 12) * A001353(n+1).
a(n+3/4) - a(n+1/4) = sqrt(2*sqrt(6) - 4) * A001075(n+1).
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n) - 1/a(n)) = 1/6 (telescoping series: for n >= 1, 1/(a(n) - 1/a(n)) = 1/A001352(n) + 1/A001352(n+1)).
Product_{n >= 1} (a(n) + 1)/(a(n) - 1) = sqrt(3) (telescoping product: Product_{n = 1..k} ((a(n) + 1)/(a(n) - 1))^2 = 3*(1 - 2/A102206(k))). (End)

A001542 a(n) = 6*a(n-1) - a(n-2) for n > 1, a(0)=0 and a(1)=2.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 2, 12, 70, 408, 2378, 13860, 80782, 470832, 2744210, 15994428, 93222358, 543339720, 3166815962, 18457556052, 107578520350, 627013566048, 3654502875938, 21300003689580, 124145519261542, 723573111879672

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Consider the equation core(x) = core(2x+1) where core(x) is the smallest number such that x*core(x) is a square: solutions are given by a(n)^2, n > 0. - Benoit Cloitre, Apr 06 2002
Terms > 0 give numbers k which are solutions to the inequality |round(sqrt(2)*k)/k - sqrt(2)| < 1/(2*sqrt(2)*k^2). - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 06 2006
Also numbers m such that A125650(6*m^2) is an even perfect square, where A124650(m) is a numerator of m*(m+3)/(4*(m+1)*(m+2)) = Sum_{k=1..m} 1/(k*(k+1)*(k+2)). Sequence A033581 is a bisection of A125651. - Alexander Adamchuk, Nov 30 2006
The upper principal convergents to 2^(1/2), beginning with 3/2, 17/12, 99/70, 577/408, comprise a strictly decreasing sequence; essentially, numerators = A001541 and denominators = {a(n)}. - Clark Kimberling, Aug 26 2008
Even Pell numbers. - Omar E. Pol, Dec 10 2008
Numbers k such that 2*k^2+1 is a square. - Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Feb 19 2010
These are the integer square roots of the Half-Squares, A007590(k), which occur at values of k given by A001541. Also the numbers produced by adding m + sqrt(floor(m^2/2) + 1) when m is in A002315. See array in A227972. - Richard R. Forberg, Aug 31 2013
A001541(n)/a(n) is the closest rational approximation of sqrt(2) with a denominator not larger than a(n), and 2*a(n)/A001541(n) is the closest rational approximation of sqrt(2) with a numerator not larger than 2*a(n). These rational approximations together with those obtained from the sequences A001653 and A002315 give a complete set of closest rational approximations of sqrt(2) with restricted numerator as well as denominator. - A.H.M. Smeets, May 28 2017
Conjecture: Numbers k such that c/m < k for all natural a^2 + b^2 = c^2 (Pythagorean triples), a < b < c and a+b+c = m. Numbers which correspondingly minimize c/m are A002939. - Lorraine Lee, Jan 31 2020
All of the positive integer solutions of a*b + 1 = x^2, a*c + 1 = y^2, b*c + 1 = z^2, x + z = 2*y, 0 < a < b < c are given by a=a(n), b=A005319(n), c=a(n+1), x=A001541(n), y=A001653(n+1), z=A002315(n) with 0 < n. - Michael Somos, Jun 26 2022

			G.f. = 2*x + 12*x^2 + 70*x^3 + 408*x^4 + 2378*x^5 + 13860*x^6 + ...

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N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pages 257-258.
P.-F. Teilhet, Query 2376, L'Intermédiaire des Mathématiciens, 11 (1904), 138-139. - N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 08 2022

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Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (6,-1).

Bisection of Pell numbers A000129: {a(n)} and A001653(n+1), n >= 0.

Cf. A001108, A001353, A001541, A001835, A003499, A007805, A007913, A115598, A125650, A125651, A125652.

a:=[0,2];; for n in [3..20] do a[n]:=6*a[n-1]-a[n-2]; od; a; # G. C. Greubel, Dec 23 2019

a001542 n = a001542_list !! n
a001542_list =
   0 : 2 : zipWith (-) (map (6 *) $ tail a001542_list) a001542_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 14 2011

I:=[0,2]; [n le 2 select I[n] else 6*Self(n-1) -Self(n-2): n in [1..20]]; // G. C. Greubel, Dec 23 2019

A001542:=2*z/(1-6*z+z**2); # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
seq(combinat:-fibonacci(2*n, 2), n = 0..20); # Peter Luschny, Jun 28 2018

LinearRecurrence[{6, -1}, {0, 2}, 30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jun 11 2011 *)
Fibonacci[2*Range[0,20], 2] (* G. C. Greubel, Dec 23 2019 *)
Table[2 ChebyshevU[-1 + n, 3], {n, 0, 20}] (* Herbert Kociemba, Jun 05 2022 *)

a[0]:0$
a[1]:2$
a[n]:=6*a[n-1]-a[n-2]$
A001542(n):=a[n]$
makelist(A001542(x),x,0,30); /* Martin Ettl, Nov 03 2012 */

{a(n) = imag( (3 + 2*quadgen(8))^n )}; /* Michael Somos, Jan 20 2017 */

vector(21, n, 2*polchebyshev(n-1, 2, 33) ) \\ G. C. Greubel, Dec 23 2019

l=[0, 2]
for n in range(2, 51): l+=[6*l[n - 1] - l[n - 2], ]
print(l) # Indranil Ghosh, Jun 06 2017

[2*chebyshev_U(n-1,3) for n in (0..20)] # G. C. Greubel, Dec 23 2019

a(n) = 2*A001109(n).
a(n) = ((3+2*sqrt(2))^n - (3-2*sqrt(2))^n) / (2*sqrt(2)).
G.f.: 2*x/(1-6*x+x^2).
a(n) = sqrt(2*(A001541(n))^2 - 2)/2. - Barry E. Williams, May 07 2000
a(n) = (C^(2n) - C^(-2n))/sqrt(8) where C = sqrt(2) + 1. - Gary W. Adamson, May 11 2003
For all terms x of the sequence, 2*x^2 + 1 is a square. Limit_{n->oo} a(n)/a(n-1) = 3 + 2*sqrt(2). - Gregory V. Richardson, Oct 10 2002
For n > 0: a(n) = A001652(n) + A046090(n) - A001653(n); e.g., 70 = 119 + 120 - 169. Also a(n) = A001652(n - 1) + A046090(n - 1) + A001653(n - 1); e.g., 70 = 20 + 21 + 29. Also a(n)^2 + 1 = A001653(n - 1)*A001653(n); e.g., 12^2 + 1 = 145 = 5*29. Also a(n + 1)^2 = A084703(n + 1) = A001652(n)*A001652(n + 1) + A046090(n)*A046090(n + 1). - Charlie Marion, Jul 01 2003
a(n) = ((1+sqrt(2))^(2*n) - (1-sqrt(2))^(2*n))/(2*sqrt(2)). - Antonio Alberto Olivares, Dec 24 2003
2*A001541(k)*A001653(n)*A001653(n+k) = A001653(n)^2 + A001653(n+k)^2 + a(k)^2; e.g., 2*3*5*29 = 5^2 + 29^2 + 2^2; 2*99*29*5741 = 29^2 + 5741^2 + 70^2. - Charlie Marion, Oct 12 2007
a(n) = sinh(2*n*arcsinh(1))/sqrt(2). - Herbert Kociemba, Apr 24 2008
For n > 0, a(n) = A001653(n) + A002315(n-1). - Richard R. Forberg, Aug 31 2013
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) + 2*A001541(n-1); e.g., a(4) = 70 = 3*12 + 2*17. - Zak Seidov, Dec 19 2013
a(n)^2 + 1^2 = A115598(n)^2 + (A115598(n)+1)^2. - Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt, Jul 27 2014
Sum {n >= 1} 1/( a(n) + 1/a(n) ) = 1/2. - _Peter Bala, Mar 25 2015
E.g.f.: exp(3*x)*sinh(2*sqrt(2)*x)/sqrt(2). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Dec 07 2016
A007814(a(n)) = A001511(n). See Mathematical Reflections link. - Michel Marcus, Jan 06 2017
a(n) = -a(-n) for all n in Z. - Michael Somos, Jan 20 2017
From A.H.M. Smeets, May 28 2017: (Start)
A051009(n) = a(2^(n-2)).
a(2n) = 2*a(2)*A001541(n).
A001541(n)/a(n) > sqrt(2) > 2*a(n)/A001541(n). (End)
a(A298210(n)) = A002349(2*n^2). - A.H.M. Smeets, Jan 25 2018
a(n) = A000129(n)*A002203(n). - Adam Mohamed, Jul 20 2024

A002530 a(n) = 4*a(n-2) - a(n-4) for n > 1, a(n) = n for n = 0, 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 1, 3, 4, 11, 15, 41, 56, 153, 209, 571, 780, 2131, 2911, 7953, 10864, 29681, 40545, 110771, 151316, 413403, 564719, 1542841, 2107560, 5757961, 7865521, 21489003, 29354524, 80198051, 109552575, 299303201, 408855776, 1117014753, 1525870529, 4168755811

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Denominators of continued fraction convergents to sqrt(3), for n >= 1.
Also denominators of continued fraction convergents to sqrt(3) - 1. See A048788 for numerators. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 17 2007. Convergents are 1, 2/3, 3/4, 8/11, 11/15, 30/41, 41/56, 112/153, ...
Consider the mapping f(a/b) = (a + 3*b)/(a + b). Taking a = b = 1 to start with and carrying out this mapping repeatedly on each new (reduced) rational number gives the following sequence 1/1, 2/1, 5/3, 7/4, 19/11, ... converging to 3^(1/2). Sequence contains the denominators. The same mapping for N, i.e., f(a/b) = (a + Nb)/(a + b) gives fractions converging to N^(1/2). - Amarnath Murthy, Mar 22 2003
Sqrt(3) = 2/2 + 2/3 + 2/(3*11) + 2/(11*41) + 2/(41*153) + 2/(153*571), ...; the sum of the first 6 terms of this series = 1.7320490367..., while sqrt(3) = 1.7320508075... - Gary W. Adamson, Dec 15 2007
From Clark Kimberling, Aug 27 2008: (Start)
  Related convergents (numerator/denominator):
  lower principal convergents: A001834/A001835
  upper principal convergents: A001075/A001353
  intermediate convergents: A005320/A001075
  principal and intermediate convergents: A143642/A140827
  lower principal and intermediate convergents: A143643/A005246. (End)
Row sums of triangle A152063 = (1, 3, 4, 11, ...). - Gary W. Adamson, Nov 26 2008
From Alois P. Heinz, Apr 13 2011: (Start)
Also number of domino tilings of the 3 X (n-1) rectangle with upper left corner removed iff n is even.  For n=4 the 4 domino tilings of the 3 X 3 rectangle with upper left corner removed are:
   . ._. . ._. . ._. . ._.
   .|__| .|__| .| | | .|___|
   | |_| | | | | | ||| |_| |
   ||__| |||_| ||__| |_|_|  (End)
This is the sequence of Lehmer numbers u_n(sqrt(R),Q) with the parameters R = 2 and Q = -1. It is a strong divisibility sequence, that is, gcd(a(n),a(m)) = a(gcd(n,m)) for all natural numbers n and m. - Peter Bala, Apr 18 2014
2^(-floor(n/2))*(1 + sqrt(3))^n = A002531(n) + a(n)*sqrt(3); integers in the real quadratic number field Q(sqrt(3)). - Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 11 2018
Let T(n) = 2^(n mod 2), U(n) = a(n), V(n) = A002531(n), x(n) = V(n)/U(n). Then T(n*m) * U(n+m) = U(n)*V(m) + U(m)*V(n), T(n*m) * V(n+m) = 3*U(n)*U(m) + V(m)*V(n), x(n+m) = (3 + x(n)*x(m))/(x(n) + x(m)). - Michael Somos, Nov 29 2022

			Convergents to sqrt(3) are: 1, 2, 5/3, 7/4, 19/11, 26/15, 71/41, 97/56, 265/153, 362/209, 989/571, 1351/780, 3691/2131, ... = A002531/A002530 for n >= 1.
1 + 1/(1 + 1/(2 + 1/(1 + 1/2))) = 19/11 so a(5) = 11.
G.f. = x + x^2 + 3*x^3 + 4*x^4 + 11*x^5 + 15*x^6 + 41*x^7 + ... - _Michael Somos_, Mar 18 2022

Serge Lang, Introduction to Diophantine Approximations, Addison-Wesley, New York, 1966.
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I. Niven and H. S. Zuckerman, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers. 2nd ed., Wiley, NY, 1966, p. 181.
Murat Sahin and Elif Tan, Conditional (strong) divisibility sequences, Fib. Q., 56 (No. 1, 2018), 18-31.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
A. Tarn, Approximations to certain square roots and the series of numbers connected therewith, Mathematical Questions and Solutions from the Educational Times, 1 (1916), 8-12.

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..2000
Peter Bala, Notes on 2-periodic continued fractions and Lehmer sequences
Paul Barry, Symmetric Third-Order Recurring Sequences, Chebyshev Polynomials, and Riordan Arrays, JIS 12 (2009) 09.8.6.
Mario Catalani, Sequences related to convergents to square root of rationals, arXiv:math/0305270 [math.NT], 2003.
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Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Jonathan Levitt, and Michael Shimshoni, Characterization of the set of values f(n)=[n alpha], n=1,2,..., Discrete Math. 2 (1972), no.4, 335-345.
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MacTutor, D'Arcy Thompson on Greek irrationals
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Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
Albert Tarn, Approximations to certain square roots and the series of numbers connected therewith [Annotated scanned copy]
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Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for two-way infinite sequences
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,4,0,-1).
Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.

Cf. A002531 (numerators of convergents to sqrt(3)), A048788, A003297.
Bisections: A001353 and A001835.
Cf. A152063.
Cf. A108412, A049310.
Analog for sqrt(m): A000129 (m=2), A001076 (m=5), A041007 (m=6), A041009 (m=7), A041011 (m=8), A005668 (m=10), A041015 (m=11), A041017 (m=12), ..., A042935 (m=999), A042937 (m=1000).

I:=[0,1,1,3]; [n le 4 select I[n] else 4*Self(n-2) - Self(n-4): n in [1..50]]; // G. C. Greubel, Feb 25 2019

a := proc(n) option remember; if n=0 then 0 elif n=1 then 1 elif n=2 then 1 elif n=3 then 3 else 4*a(n-2)-a(n-4) fi end; [ seq(a(i),i=0..50) ];
A002530:=-(-1-z+z**2)/(1-4*z**2+z**4); # conjectured (correctly) by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation

Join[{0},Table[Denominator[FromContinuedFraction[ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[3],n]]], {n,1,50}]] (* Stefan Steinerberger, Apr 01 2006 *)
Join[{0},Denominator[Convergents[Sqrt[3],50]]] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[ {0,4,0,-1},{0,1,1,3},50] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jan 29 2013 *)
a[ n_] := If[n<0, -(-1)^n, 1] SeriesCoefficient[ x*(1+x-x^2)/(1-4*x^2+x^4), {x, 0, Abs@n}]; (* Michael Somos, Apr 18 2019 *)
a[ n_] := ChebyshevU[n-1, Sqrt[-1/2]]*Sqrt[2]^(Mod[n, 2]-1)/I^(n-1) //Simplify; (* Michael Somos, Nov 29 2022 *)

{a(n) = if( n<0, -(-1)^n * a(-n), contfracpnqn(vector(n, i, 1 + (i>1) * (i%2)))[2, 1])}; /* Michael Somos, Jun 05 2003 */

{ for (n=0, 50, a=contfracpnqn(vector(n, i, 1+(i>1)*(i%2)))[2, 1]; write("b002530.txt", n, " ", a); ); } \\ Harry J. Smith, Jun 01 2009

my(w=quadgen(12)); A002530(n)=real((2+w)^(n\/2)*if(bittest(n,0),1-w/3,w/3));
apply(A002530, [0..30]) \\ M. F. Hasler, Nov 04 2019

from functools import cache
@cache
def a(n): return [0, 1, 1, 3][n] if n < 4 else 4*a(n-2) - a(n-4)
print([a(n) for n in range(36)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Nov 13 2022

(x*(1+x-x^2)/(1-4*x^2+x^4)).series(x, 50).coefficients(x, sparse=False) # G. C. Greubel, Feb 25 2019

G.f.: x*(1 + x - x^2)/(1 - 4*x^2 + x^4).
a(n) = 4*a(n-2) - a(n-4). [Corrected by László Szalay, Feb 21 2014]
a(n) = -(-1)^n * a(-n) for all n in Z, would satisfy the same recurrence relation. - Michael Somos, Jun 05 2003
a(2*n) = a(2*n-1) + a(2*n-2), a(2*n+1) = 2*a(2*n) + a(2*n-1).
From Benoit Cloitre, Dec 15 2002: (Start)
a(2*n) = ((2 + sqrt(3))^n - (2 - sqrt(3))^n)/(2*sqrt(3)).
a(2*n) = A001353(n).
a(2*n-1) = ceiling((1 + 1/sqrt(3))/2*(2 + sqrt(3))^n) = ((3 + sqrt(3))^(2*n - 1) + (3 - sqrt(3))^(2*n - 1))/6^n.
a(2*n-1) = A001835(n). (End)
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} binomial(n - k, k) * 2^floor((n - 2*k)/2). - Paul Barry, Jul 13 2004
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} binomial(floor(n/2) + k, floor((n - 1)/2 - k))*2^k. - Paul Barry, Jun 22 2005
G.f.: (sqrt(6) + sqrt(3))/12*Q(0), where Q(k) = 1 - a/(1 + 1/(b^(2*k) - 1 - b^(2*k)/(c + 2*a*x/(2*x - g*m^(2*k)/(1 + a/(1 - 1/(b^(2*k + 1) + 1 - b^(2*k + 1)/(h - 2*a*x/(2*x + g*m^(2*k + 1)/Q(k + 1)))))))))). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Jun 21 2012
a(n) = (alpha^n - beta^n)/(alpha - beta) for n odd, and a(n) = (alpha^n - beta^n)/(alpha^2 - beta^2) for n even, where alpha = 1/2*(sqrt(2) + sqrt(6)) and beta = (1/2)*(sqrt(2) - sqrt(6)). Cf. A108412. - Peter Bala, Apr 18 2014
a(n) = (-sqrt(2)*i)^n*S(n, sqrt(2)*i)*2^(-floor(n/2)) = A002605(n)*2^(-floor(n/2)), n >= 0, with i = sqrt(-1) and S the Chebyshev polynomials (A049310). - Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 10 2018
a(n+1)*a(n+2) - a(n+3)*a(n) = (-1)^n, n >= 0. - Kai Wang, Feb 06 2020
E.g.f.: sinh(sqrt(3/2)*x)*(sinh(x/sqrt(2)) + sqrt(2)*cosh(x/sqrt(2)))/sqrt(3). - Stefano Spezia, Feb 07 2020
a(n) = ((1 + sqrt(3))^n - (1 - sqrt(3))^n)/(2*2^floor(n/2))/sqrt(3) = A002605(n)/2^floor(n/2). - Robert FERREOL, Apr 13 2023

Definition edited by M. F. Hasler, Nov 04 2019

A108299 Triangle read by rows, 0 <= k <= n: T(n,k) = binomial(n-[(k+1)/2],[k/2])*(-1)^[(k+1)/2].

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, -1, 1, -1, -1, 1, -1, -2, 1, 1, -1, -3, 2, 1, 1, -1, -4, 3, 3, -1, 1, -1, -5, 4, 6, -3, -1, 1, -1, -6, 5, 10, -6, -4, 1, 1, -1, -7, 6, 15, -10, -10, 4, 1, 1, -1, -8, 7, 21, -15, -20, 10, 5, -1, 1, -1, -9, 8, 28, -21, -35, 20, 15, -5, -1, 1, -1, -10, 9, 36, -28, -56, 35, 35, -15, -6, 1, 1, -1, -11, 10, 45, -36, -84, 56, 70

Offset: 0

Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 01 2005

Matrix inverse of A124645.
Let L(n,x) = Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*x^(n-k) and Pi=3.14...:
L(n,x) = Product_{k=1..n} (x - 2*cos((2*k-1)*Pi/(2*n+1)));
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k) = L(n,1) = A010892(n+1);
Sum_{k=0..n} abs(T(n,k)) = A000045(n+2);
abs(T(n,k)) = A065941(n,k), T(n,k) = A065941(n,k)*A087960(k);
T(2*n,k) + T(2*n+1,k+1) = 0 for 0 <= k <= 2*n;
T(n,0) = A000012(n) = 1; T(n,1) = -1 for n > 0;
T(n,2) = -(n-1) for n > 1; T(n,3) = A000027(n)=n for n > 2;
T(n,4) = A000217(n-3) for n > 3; T(n,5) = -A000217(n-4) for n > 4;
T(n,6) = -A000292(n-5) for n > 5; T(n,7) = A000292(n-6) for n > 6;
T(n,n-3) = A058187(n-3)*(-1)^floor(n/2) for n > 2;
T(n,n-2) = A008805(n-2)*(-1)^floor((n+1)/2) for n > 1;
T(n,n-1) = A008619(n-1)*(-1)^floor(n/2) for n > 0;
T(n,n) = L(n,0) = (-1)^floor((n+1)/2);
L(n,1) = A010892(n+1); L(n,-1) = A061347(n+2);
L(n,2) = 1; L(n,-2) = A005408(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,3) = A001519(n); L(n,-3) = A002878(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,4) = A001835(n+1); L(n,-4) = A001834(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,5) = A004253(n); L(n,-5) = A030221(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,6) = A001653(n); L(n,-6) = A002315(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,7) = A049685(n); L(n,-7) = A033890(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,8) = A070997(n); L(n,-8) = A057080(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,9) = A070998(n); L(n,-9) = A057081(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,10) = A072256(n+1); L(n,-10) = A054320(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,11) = A078922(n+1); L(n,-11) = A097783(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,12) = A077417(n); L(n,-12) = A077416(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,13) = A085260(n);
L(n,14) = A001570(n); L(n,-14) = A028230(n)*(-1)^n;
L(n,n) = A108366(n); L(n,-n) = A108367(n).
Row n of the matrix inverse (A124645) has g.f.: x^floor(n/2)*(1-x)^(n-floor(n/2)). - Paul D. Hanna, Jun 12 2005
From L. Edson Jeffery, Mar 12 2011: (Start)
Conjecture: Let N=2*n+1, with n > 2. Then T(n,k) (0 <= k <= n) gives the k-th coefficient in the characteristic function p_N(x)=0, of degree n in x, for the n X n tridiagonal unit-primitive matrix G_N (see [Jeffery]) of the form
  G_N=A_{N,1}=
  (0 1 0 ... 0)
  (1 0 1 0 ... 0)
  (0 1 0 1 0 ... 0)
  ...
  (0 ... 0 1 0 1)
  (0 ... 0 1 1),
with solutions phi_j = 2*cos((2*j-1)*Pi/N), j=1,2,...,n. For example, for n=3,
  G_7=A_{7,1}=
  (0 1 0)
  (1 0 1)
  (0 1 1).
We have {T(3,k)}=(1,-1,-2,1), while the characteristic function of G_7 is p(x) = x^3-x^2-2*x+1 = 0, with solutions phi_j = 2*cos((2*j-1)*Pi/7), j=1,2,3. (End)
The triangle sums, see A180662 for their definitions, link A108299 with several sequences, see the crossrefs. - Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 08 2011
The roots to the polynomials are chaotic using iterates of the operation (x^2 - 2), with cycle lengths L and initial seeds returning to the same term or (-1)* the seed. Periodic cycle lengths L are shown in A003558 such that for the polynomial represented by row r, the cycle length L is A003558(r-1). The matrices corresponding to the rows as characteristic polynomials are likewise chaotic [cf. Kappraff et al., 2005] with the same cycle lengths but substituting 2*I for the "2" in (x^2 - 2), where I = the Identity matrix. For example, the roots to x^3 - x^2 - 2x + 1 = 0 are 1.801937..., -1.246979..., and 0.445041... With 1.801937... as the initial seed and using (x^2 - 2), we obtain the 3-period trajectory of 8.801937... -> 1.246979... -> -0.445041... (returning to -1.801937...). We note that A003558(2) = 3. The corresponding matrix M is: [0,1,0; 1,0,1; 0,1,1,]. Using seed M with (x^2 - 2*I), we obtain the 3-period with the cycle completed at (-1)*M. - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 07 2012

			Triangle begins:
  1;
  1,  -1;
  1,  -1,  -1;
  1,  -1,  -2,   1;
  1,  -1,  -3,   2,   1;
  1,  -1,  -4,   3,   3,  -1;
  1,  -1,  -5,   4,   6,  -3,  -1;
  1,  -1,  -6,   5,  10,  -6,  -4,   1;
  1,  -1,  -7,   6,  15, -10, -10,   4,   1;
  1,  -1,  -8,   7,  21, -15, -20,  10,   5,  -1;
  1,  -1,  -9,   8,  28, -21, -35,  20,  15,  -5,  -1;
  1,  -1, -10,   9,  36, -28, -56,  35,  35, -15,  -6,   1;
  ...

Friedrich L. Bauer, 'De Moivre und Lagrange: Cosinus eines rationalen Vielfachen von Pi', Informatik Spektrum 28 (Springer, 2005).
Jay Kappraff, S. Jablan, G. Adamson, & R. Sazdonovich: "Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, & Chaotic Matrices"; FORMA, Vol 19, No 4, (2005).

Reinhard Zumkeller, Rows n = 0..150 of triangle, flattened
Henry W. Gould, A Variant of Pascal's Triangle, Corrections, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 3, Nr. 4, Dec. 1965, p. 257-271.
L. Edson Jeffery, Unit-primitive matrices.
Ju, Hyeong-Kwan On the sequence generated by a certain type of matrices. Honam Math. J. 39, No. 4, 665-675 (2017).
Michelle Rudolph-Lilith, On the Product Representation of Number Sequences, with Application to the Fibonacci Family, arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07894 [math.NT], 2015.
Frank Ruskey and Carla Savage, Gray codes for set partitions and restricted growth tails, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 10(1994), pp. 85-96. See Table 1 p. 95.

Cf. A049310, A039961, A124645 (matrix inverse).
Triangle sums (see the comments): A193884 (Kn11), A154955 (Kn21), A087960 (Kn22), A000007 (Kn3), A010892 (Fi1), A134668 (Fi2), A078031 (Ca2), A193669 (Gi1), A001519 (Gi3), A193885 (Ze1), A050935 (Ze3). - Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 08 2011
Cf. A003558.
Cf. A033999, A059841.

a108299 n k = a108299_tabl !! n !! k
a108299_row n = a108299_tabl !! n
a108299_tabl = [1] : iterate (\row ->
   zipWith (+) (zipWith (*) ([0] ++ row) a033999_list)
               (zipWith (*) (row ++ [0]) a059841_list)) [1,-1]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, May 06 2012

A108299 := proc(n,k): binomial(n-floor((k+1)/2), floor(k/2))*(-1)^floor((k+1)/2) end: seq(seq(A108299 (n,k), k=0..n), n=0..11); # Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 08 2011

t[n_, k_?EvenQ] := I^k*Binomial[n-k/2, k/2]; t[n_, k_?OddQ] := -I^(k-1)*Binomial[n+(1-k)/2-1, (k-1)/2]; Table[t[n, k], {n, 0, 12}, {k, 0, n}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, May 16 2013 *)

{T(n,k)=polcoeff(polcoeff((1-x*y)/(1-x+x^2*y^2+x^2*O(x^n)),n,x)+y*O(y^k),k,y)} (Hanna)

T(n,k) = binomial(n-floor((k+1)/2),floor(k/2))*(-1)^floor((k+1)/2).
T(n+1, k) = if sign(T(n, k-1))=sign(T(n, k)) then T(n, k-1)+T(n, k) else -T(n, k-1) for 0 < k < n, T(n, 0) = 1, T(n, n) = (-1)^floor((n+1)/2).
G.f.: A(x, y) = (1 - x*y)/(1 - x + x^2*y^2). - Paul D. Hanna, Jun 12 2005
The generating polynomial (in z) of row n >= 0 is (u^(2*n+1) + v^(2*n+1))/(u + v), where u and v are defined by u^2 + v^2 = 1 and u*v = z. - Emeric Deutsch, Jun 16 2011
From Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 08 2011: (Start)
abs(T(n,k)) = A065941(n,k) = abs(A187660(n,n-k));
T(n,n-k) = A130777(n,k); abs(T(n,n-k)) = A046854(n,k) = abs(A066170(n,k)). (End)

Corrected and edited by Philippe Deléham, Oct 20 2008

A099390 Array T(m,n) read by antidiagonals: number of domino tilings (or dimer tilings) of the m X n grid (or m X n rectangle), for m>=1, n>=1.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 3, 3, 1, 0, 5, 0, 5, 0, 1, 8, 11, 11, 8, 1, 0, 13, 0, 36, 0, 13, 0, 1, 21, 41, 95, 95, 41, 21, 1, 0, 34, 0, 281, 0, 281, 0, 34, 0, 1, 55, 153, 781, 1183, 1183, 781, 153, 55, 1, 0, 89, 0, 2245, 0, 6728, 0, 2245, 0, 89, 0, 1, 144, 571, 6336, 14824, 31529, 31529, 14824, 6336, 571, 144, 1

Offset: 1

Ralf Stephan, Oct 16 2004

There are many versions of this array (or triangle) in the OEIS. This is the main entry, which ideally collects together all the references to the literature and to other versions in the OEIS. But see A004003 for further information. - N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 14 2015

			0,  1,  0,   1,    0,    1, ...
1,  2,  3,   5,    8,   13, ...
0,  3,  0,  11,    0,   41, ...
1,  5, 11,  36,   95,  281, ...
0,  8,  0,  95,    0, 1183, ...
1, 13, 41, 281, 1183, 6728, ...

S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 406-412.
P. E. John, H. Sachs, and H. Zernitz, Problem 5. Domino covers in square chessboards, Zastosowania Matematyki (Applicationes Mathematicae) XIX 3-4 (1987), 635-641.
R. P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics, Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., pp. 547 and 570.
Darko Veljan, Kombinatorika: s teorijom grafova (Croatian) (Combinatorics with Graph Theory) mentions the value 12988816 = 2^4*901^2 for the 8 X 8 case on page 4.

Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1035
M. Aanjaneya and S. P. Pal, Faultfree tromino tilings of rectangles, arXiv:math/0610925 [math.CO], 2006.
Mudit Aggarwal and Samrith Ram, Generating Functions for Straight Polyomino Tilings of Narrow Rectangles, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 26 (2023), Article 23.1.4.
F. Ardila and R. P. Stanley, Tilings, arXiv:math/0501170 [math.CO], 2005.
M. Ciucu, Enumeration of perfect matchings in graphs with reflective symmetry, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Volume 77, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 67-97.
Henry Cohn, 2-adic behavior of numbers of domino tilings, arXiv:math/0008222 [math.CO], 2000.
Henry Cohn, 2-adic behavior of numbers of domino tilings, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 6 (1999), #R14.
F. Faase, Counting Hamiltonian cycles in product graphs
F. Faase, Results from the counting program
Steven R. Finch, The Dimer Problem [From Steven Finch, Apr 20 2019]
Steven R. Finch, Two Dimensional Monomer Dimer Constant [Broken link]
M. E. Fisher, Statistical mechanics of dimers on a plane lattice, Physical Review, 124 (1961), 1664-1672.
P. Flajolet and R. Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics, 2009; see page 363.
Laura Florescu, Daniela Morar, David Perkinson, Nicholas Salter, and Tianyuan Xu, Sandpiles and Dominos, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 22(1), 2015.
W. Jockusch, Perfect matchings and perfect squares J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 67 (1994), no. 1, 100-115.
Peter E. John and Horst Sachs, On a strange observation in the theory of the dimer problem, arXiv:math/9801094 [math.CO], 1998.
Peter E. John and Horst Sachs, On a strange observation in the theory of the dimer problem, Discrete Math. 216 (2000), no. 1-3, 211-219.
Yuhi Kamio, Junnosuke Koizumi, and Toshihiko Nakazawa, Quadratic residues and domino tilings, arXiv:2311.13597 [math.NT], 2023.
David Klarner and Jordan Pollack, Domino tilings of rectangles with fixed width, Disc. Math. 32 (1980) 45-52, Table 1.
Per Hakan Lundow, Enumeration of matchings in polygraphs, 1998.
P. W. Kasteleyn, The statistics of dimers on a lattice, I. the number of dimer arrangements on a quadratic lattice, Physica 27 (1961), 1209-1225.
Douglas M. McKenna, The Art of Space-Filling Domino Curves, Bridges Conference Proceedings, 2024, pp. 319-326.
L. Pachter, Combinatorial approaches and conjectures for 2-divisibility problems concerning domino tilings of polyominoes, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 4 (1997), #R29.
J. Propp, Dimers and Dominoes
J. Propp, Enumeration of Matchings: Problems and Progress, arXiv:math/9904150v2 [math.CO], 1999.
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon, Polyominoes and Related Families, The Mathematica Journal, 9:3 (2005), 609-640.
R. C. Read, A Note on Tiling Rectangles with Dominoes, The Fibonacci Quarterly, 18.1 (1980), 24-27.
R. P. Stanley, A combinatorial miscellany
H. N. V. Temperley and Michael E. Fisher, Dimer problem in statistical mechanics -- an exact result, Philos. Mag. (8) 6 (1961), 1061-1063.
Herman Tulleken, Polyominoes 2.2: How they fit together, (2019).
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Domino Tiling
Eric Weisstein, Illustration for T(4,4) = 36, from Domino Tilings web page (see previous link) [Included with permission]
Index entries for sequences related to dominoes

See A187596 for another version (with m >= 0, n >= 0). See A187616 for a triangular version. See also A187617, A187618.
See also A004003 for more literature on the dimer problem.
Rows 2-13, 16 (without zeros) are A000045, A001835, A005178, A003775, A028468, A028469, A028470, A028471, A028472, A028473, A028474, A241908, A340532.
Main diagonal is A004003.
Cf. A103997, A103999, A233320, A230031, A233427.

(Maple code for the even-numbered rows from N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 15 2015. This is not totally satisfactory since it uses floating point. However, it is useful for getting the initial values quickly.)
Digits:=100;
p:=evalf(Pi);
z:=proc(h,d) global p; evalf(cos( h*p/(2*d+1) )); end;
T:=proc(m,n) global z; round(mul( mul( 4*z(h,m)^2+4*z(k,n)^2, k=1..n), h=1..m)); end;
[seq(T(1,n),n=0..10)]; # A001519
[seq(T(2,n),n=0..10)]; # A188899
[seq(T(3,n),n=0..10)]; # A256044
[seq(T(n,n),n=0..10)]; # A004003

T[?OddQ, ?OddQ] = 0;
T[m_, n_] := Product[2*(2+Cos[2j*Pi/(m+1)]+Cos[2k*Pi/(n+1)]), {k, 1, n/2}, {j, 1, m/2}];
Flatten[Table[Round[T[m-n+1, n]], {m, 1, 12}, {n, 1, m}]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 25 2011, updated May 28 2022 *)

{T(n, k) = sqrtint(abs(polresultant(polchebyshev(n, 2, x/2), polchebyshev(k, 2, I*x/2))))} \\ Seiichi Manyama, Apr 13 2020

T(m, n) = Product_{j=1..ceiling(m/2)} Product_{k=1..ceiling(n/2)} (4*cos(j*Pi/(m+1))^2 + 4*cos(k*Pi/(n+1))^2).

Old link fixed and new link added by Frans J. Faase, Feb 04 2009

Entry edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 15 2015

A003500 a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2) with a(0) = 2, a(1) = 4.

Original entry on oeis.org

2, 4, 14, 52, 194, 724, 2702, 10084, 37634, 140452, 524174, 1956244, 7300802, 27246964, 101687054, 379501252, 1416317954, 5285770564, 19726764302, 73621286644, 274758382274, 1025412242452, 3826890587534, 14282150107684, 53301709843202, 198924689265124

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

a(n) gives values of x satisfying x^2 - 3*y^2 = 4; corresponding y values are given by 2*A001353(n).
If M is any given term of the sequence, then the next one is 2*M + sqrt(3*M^2 - 12). - Lekraj Beedassy, Feb 18 2002
For n > 0, the three numbers a(n) - 1, a(n), and a(n) + 1 form a Fleenor-Heronian triangle, i.e., a Heronian triangle with consecutive sides, whose area A(n) may be obtained from the relation [4*A(n)]^2 = 3([a(2n)]^2 - 4); or A(n) = 3*A001353(2*n)/2 and whose semiperimeter is 3*a[n]/2. The sequence is symmetrical about a[0], i.e., a[-n] = a[n].
For n > 0, a(n) + 2 is the number of dimer tilings of a 2*n X 2 Klein bottle (cf. A103999).
Tsumura shows that, for prime p, a(p) is composite (contrary to a conjecture of Juricevic). - Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 13 2010
Except for the first term, positive values of x (or y) satisfying x^2 - 4*x*y + y^2 + 12 = 0. - Colin Barker, Feb 04 2014
Except for the first term, positive values of x (or y) satisfying x^2 - 14*x*y + y^2 + 192 = 0. - Colin Barker, Feb 16 2014
A268281(n) - 1 is a member of this sequence iff A268281(n) is prime. - Frank M Jackson, Feb 27 2016
a(n) gives values of x satisfying 3*x^2 - 4*y^2 = 12; corresponding y values are given by A005320. - Sture Sjöstedt, Dec 19 2017
Middle side lengths of almost-equilateral Heronian triangles. - Wesley Ivan Hurt, May 20 2020
For all elements k of the sequence, 3*(k-2)*(k+2) is a square. - Davide Rotondo, Oct 25 2020

B. C. Berndt, Ramanujan's Notebooks Part IV, Springer-Verlag, see p. 82.
J. M. Borwein and P. B. Borwein, Pi and the AGM, Wiley, 1987, p.91.
Michael P. Cohen, Generating Heronian Triangles With Consecutive Integer Sides. Journal of Recreational Mathematics, vol. 30 no. 2 1999-2000 p. 123.
L. E. Dickson, History of The Theory of Numbers, Vol. 2 pp. 197;198;200;201. Chelsea NY.
Charles R. Fleenor, Heronian Triangles with Consecutive Integer Sides, Journal of Recreational Mathematics, Volume 28, no. 2 (1996-7) 113-115.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
R. P. Stanley. Enumerative combinatorics. Vol. 2, volume 62 of Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
V. D. To, "Finding All Fleenor-Heronian Triangles", Journal of Recreational Mathematics vol. 32 no.4 2003-4 pp. 298-301 Baywood NY.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..200
P. Bala, Some simple continued fraction expansions for an infinite product, Part 1
R. A. Beauregard and E. R. Suryanarayan, The Brahmagupta Triangles, The College Mathematics Journal 29(1) 13-7 1998 MAA.
Hacène Belbachir, Soumeya Merwa Tebtoub and László Németh, Ellipse Chains and Associated Sequences, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.8.5.
Daniel Birmajer, Juan B. Gil and Michael D. Weiner, Linear recurrence sequences with indices in arithmetic progression and their sums, arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06339 [math.NT], 2015.
K. S. Brown's Mathpages, Some Properties of the Lucas Sequence(2, 4, 14, 52, 194, ...)
H. W. Gould, A triangle with integral sides and area, Fib. Quart., 11 (1973), 27-39.
Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences
E. Keith Lloyd, The Standard Deviation of 1, 2, ..., n: Pell's Equation and Rational Triangles, Math. Gaz. vol 81 (1997), 231-243.
S. Northshield, An Analogue of Stern's Sequence for Z[sqrt(2)], Journal of Integer Sequences, 18 (2015), #15.11.6.
Hideyuki Ohtskua, proposer, Problem B-1351, Elementary Problems and Solutions, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 3 (2024), p. 258.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
Jeffrey Shallit, An interesting continued fraction, Math. Mag., 48 (1975), 207-211.
Jeffrey Shallit, An interesting continued fraction, Math. Mag., 48 (1975), 207-211. [Annotated scanned copy]
Yu Tsumura, On compositeness of special types of integers, arXiv:1004.1244 [math.NT], 2010.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Heronian Triangle
Wikipedia, Heronian triangle
A. V. Zarelua, On Matrix Analogs of Fermat's Little Theorem, Mathematical Notes, vol. 79, no. 6, 2006, pp. 783-796. Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, vol. 79, no. 6, 2006, pp. 840-855.
Index entries for recurrences a(n) = k*a(n - 1) +/- a(n - 2)
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,-1).

Cf. A001075, A001353, A001835.
Cf. A011945 (areas), A334277 (perimeters).
Cf. this sequence (middle side lengths), A016064 (smallest side lengths), A335025 (largest side lengths).
Cf. A001570, A002530, A005320, A006051, A048788, A174500, A268281.
Cf. A011943, A102344, A019673, A105531.

a003500 n = a003500_list !! n
a003500_list = 2 : 4 : zipWith (-)
   (map (* 4) $ tail a003500_list) a003500_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Dec 17 2011

I:=[2,4]; [n le 2 select I[n] else 4*Self(n-1)-Self(n-2): n in [1..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 14 2018

A003500 := proc(n) option remember; if n <= 1 then 2*n+2 else 4*procname(n-1)-procname(n-2); fi;
end proc;

a[0]=2; a[1]=4; a[n_]:= a[n]= 4a[n-1] -a[n-2]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 23}]
LinearRecurrence[{4,-1},{2,4},30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 20 2011 *)
Table[Round@LucasL[2n, Sqrt[2]], {n, 0, 20}] (* Vladimir Reshetnikov, Sep 15 2016 *)

x='x+O('x^99); Vec(-2*(-1+2*x)/(1-4*x+x^2)) \\ Altug Alkan, Apr 04 2016

[lucas_number2(n,4,1) for n in range(0, 24)] # Zerinvary Lajos, May 14 2009

a(n) = ( 2 + sqrt(3) )^n + ( 2 - sqrt(3) )^n.
a(n) = 2*A001075(n).
G.f.: 2*(1 - 2*x)/(1 - 4*x + x^2). Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.
a(n) = A001835(n) + A001835(n+1).
a(n) = trace of n-th power of the 2 X 2 matrix [1 2 / 1 3]. - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 30 2003 [corrected by Joerg Arndt, Jun 18 2020]
From the addition formula, a(n+m) = a(n)*a(m) - a(m-n), it is easy to derive multiplication formulas, such as: a(2*n) = (a(n))^2 - 2, a(3*n) = (a(n))^3 - 3*(a(n)), a(4*n) = (a(n))^4 - 4*(a(n))^2 + 2, a(5*n) = (a(n))^5 - 5*(a(n))^3 + 5*(a(n)), a(6*n) = (a(n))^6 - 6*(a(n))^4 + 9*(a(n))^2 - 2, etc. The absolute values of the coefficients in the expansions are given by the triangle A034807. - John Blythe Dobson, Nov 04 2007
a(n) = 2*A001353(n+1) - 4*A001353(n). - R. J. Mathar, Nov 16 2007
From Peter Bala, Jan 06 2013: (Start)
Let F(x) = Product_{n=0..infinity} (1 + x^(4*n + 1))/(1 + x^(4*n + 3)). Let alpha = 2 - sqrt(3). This sequence gives the simple continued fraction expansion of 1 + F(alpha) = 2.24561 99455 06551 88869 ... = 2 + 1/(4 + 1/(14 + 1/(52 + ...))). Cf. A174500.
Also F(-alpha) = 0.74544 81786 39692 68884 ... has the continued fraction representation 1 - 1/(4 - 1/(14 - 1/(52 - ...))) and the simple continued fraction expansion 1/(1 + 1/((4 - 2) + 1/(1 + 1/((14 - 2) + 1/(1 + 1/((52 - 2) + 1/(1 + ...))))))).
F(alpha)*F(-alpha) has the simple continued fraction expansion 1/(1 + 1/((4^2 - 4) + 1/(1 + 1/((14^2 - 4) + 1/(1 + 1/((52^2 - 4) + 1/(1 + ...))))))).
(End)
a(2^n) = A003010(n). - John Blythe Dobson, Mar 10 2014
a(n) = [x^n] ( (1 + 4*x + sqrt(1 + 8*x + 12*x^2))/2 )^n for n >= 1. - Peter Bala, Jun 23 2015
E.g.f.: 2*exp(2*x)*cosh(sqrt(3)*x). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Apr 27 2016
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} (-1)^k*n*(n - k - 1)!/(k!*(n - 2*k)!)*4^(n - 2*k) for n >= 1. - Peter Luschny, May 10 2016
From Peter Bala, Oct 15 2019: (Start)
a(n) = trace(M^n), where M is the 2 X 2 matrix [0, 1; -1, 4].
Consequently the Gauss congruences hold: a(n*p^k) = a(n*p^(k-1)) ( mod p^k ) for all prime p and positive integers n and k. See Zarelua and also Stanley (Ch. 5, Ex. 5.2(a) and its solution).
2*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/( a(n) - 6/a(n) ) = 1.
6*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/( a(n) + 2/a(n) ) = 1.
8*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/( a(n) + 24/(a(n) - 12/(a(n))) ) = 1.
8*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/( a(n) + 8/(a(n) + 4/(a(n))) ) = 1.
Series acceleration formulas for sums of reciprocals:
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/a(n) = 1/2 - 6*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n)*(a(n)^2 - 6)),
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/a(n) = 1/8 + 24*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n)*(a(n)^2 + 12)),
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = 1/6 + 2*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n)*(a(n)^2 + 2)) and
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = 1/8 + 8*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n)*(a(n)^2 + 12)).
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/a(n) = ( theta_3(2-sqrt(3))^2 - 1 )/4 = 0.34770 07561 66992 06261 .... See Borwein and Borwein, Proposition 3.5 (i), p.91.
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = ( 1 - theta_3(sqrt(3)-2)^2 )/4. Cf. A003499 and A153415. (End)
a(n) = tan(Pi/12)^n + tan(5*Pi/12)^n. - Greg Dresden, Oct 01 2020
From Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 06 2021: (Start)
a(n) = S(n, 4) - S(n-2, 4) = 2*T(n, 2), for n >= 0, with S and T Chebyshev polynomials, with S(-1, x) = 0 and S(-2, x) = -1. S(n, 4) = A001353(n+1), for n >= -1, and T(n, 2) = A001075(n).
a(2*k) = A067902(k), a(2*k+1) = 4*A001570(k+1), for k >= 0. (End)
a(n) = sqrt(2 + 2*A011943(n+1)) = sqrt(2 + 2*A102344(n+1)), n>0. - Ralf Steiner, Sep 23 2021
Sum_{n>=1} arctan(3/a(n)^2) = Pi/6 - arctan(1/3) = A019673 - A105531 (Ohtskua, 2024). - Amiram Eldar, Aug 29 2024

More terms from James Sellers, May 03 2000

Additional comments from Lekraj Beedassy, Feb 14 2002

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A355979 Indices of primes in A001835.

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A000567 Octagonal numbers: n*(3*n-2). Also called star numbers.

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A001353 a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2) with a(0) = 0, a(1) = 1.

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A001075 a(0) = 1, a(1) = 2, a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2).

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A001834 a(0) = 1, a(1) = 5, a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - a(n-2).

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A000567 Octagonal numbers: n(3n-2). Also called star numbers.