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A000228 Number of hexagonal polyominoes (or hexagonal polyforms, or planar polyhexes) with n cells.

1, 1, 3, 7, 22, 82, 333, 1448, 6572, 30490, 143552, 683101, 3274826, 15796897, 76581875, 372868101, 1822236628, 8934910362, 43939164263, 216651036012, 1070793308942, 5303855973849, 26323064063884, 130878392115834, 651812979669234, 3251215493161062, 16240020734253127, 81227147768301723, 406770970805865187, 2039375198751047333

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

From Markus Voege, Nov 24 2009: (Start)
On the difference between this sequence and A038147:
The first term that differs is for n=6; for all subsequent terms, the number of polyhexes is larger than the number of planar polyhexes.
If I recall correctly, polyhexes are clusters of regular hexagons that are joined at the edges and are LOCALLY embeddable in the hexagonal lattice.
"Planar polyhexes" are polyhexes that are GLOBALLY embeddable in the honeycomb lattice.
Example: (Planar) polyhex with 6 cells (x) and a hole (O):
.. x x
. x O x
.. x x
Polyhex with 6 cells that is cut open (I):
.. xIx
. x O x
.. x x
This polyhex is not globally embeddable in the honeycomb lattice, since adjacent cells of the lattice must be joined. But it can be embedded locally everywhere. It is a start of a spiral. For n>6 the spiral can be continued so that the cells overlap.
Illegal configuration with cut (I):
.. xIx
. x x x
.. x x
This configuration is NOT a polyhex since the vertex at
.. xIx
... x
is not embeddable in the honeycomb lattice.
One has to keep in mind that these definitions are inspired by chemistry. Hence, potential molecules are often the motivation for these definitions. Think of benzene rings that are fused at a C-C bond.
The (planar) polyhexes are "free" configurations, in contrast to "fixed" configurations as in A001207 = Number of fixed hexagonal polyominoes with n cells.
A000228 (planar polyhexes) and A001207 (fixed hexagonal polyominoes) differ only by the attribute "free" vs. "fixed," that is, whether the different orientations and reflections of an embedding in the lattice are counted.
The configuration
. x x .... x
.. x .... x x
is counted once as free and twice as fixed configurations.
Since most configurations have no symmetry, (A001207 / A000228) -> 12 for n -> infinity. (End)

A. T. Balaban and F. Harary, Chemical graphs V: enumeration and proposed nomenclature of benzenoid cata-condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Tetrahedron 24 (1968), 2505-2516.
A. T. Balaban and Paul von R. Schleyer, "Graph theoretical enumeration of polymantanes", Tetrahedron, (1978), vol. 34, 3599-3609
M. Gardner, Polyhexes and Polyaboloes. Ch. 11 in Mathematical Magic Show. New York: Vintage, pp. 146-159, 1978.
M. Gardner, Tiling with Polyominoes, Polyiamonds and Polyhexes. Chap. 14 in Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments. New York: W. H. Freeman, pp. 175-187, 1988.
J. V. Knop et al., On the total number of polyhexes, Match, No. 16 (1984), 119-134.
W. F. Lunnon, Counting hexagonal and triangular polyominoes, pp. 87-100 of R. C. Read, editor, Graph Theory and Computing. Academic Press, NY, 1972.
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).

John Mason and Robert A. Russell, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..36
Frédéric Chyzak, Ivan Gutman, and Peter Paule, Predicting the number of hexagonal systems with 24 and 25 hexagons, Communications in Mathematical and Computer Chemistry (1999) No. 40, 139-151. See p. 141.
A. Clarke, Polyhexes
F. Harary and R. C. Read, The enumeration of tree-like polyhexes, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. (2) 17 (1970), 1-13.
D. Gouyou-Beauchamps and P. Leroux, Enumeration of symmetry classes of convex polyominoes on the honeycomb lattice, arXiv:math/0403168 [math.CO], 2004.
M. Keller, Counting polyforms
D. A. Klarner, Cell growth problems, Canad. J. Math. 19 (1967) 851-863.
J. V. Knop, K. Szymanski, Ž. Jeričević, and N. Trinajstić, On the total number of polyhexes, Match, No. 16 (1984), 119-134.
Greg Malen, Érika Roldán, and Rosemberg Toalá-Enríquez, Extremal {p, q}-Animals, Ann. Comb. (2023), p. 3.
John Mason, Counting polyhexes of size 36, updated Oct 27 2023.
Joseph Myers, Polyomino, polyhex and polyiamond tiling
Ed Pegg, Jr., Illustrations of polyforms
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon, Polyominoes and Related Families, The Mathematica Journal, 9:3 (2005), 609-640.
N. J. A. Sloane, Illustration of initial terms
N. Trinajstich, Z. Jerievi, J. V. Knop, W. R. Muller and K. Szymanski, Computer Generation of Isomeric Structures, Pure & Appl. Chem., Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 379-390, 1983.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polyhex.

Equals (A006535 + A030225)/2.
Cf. A036359, A002216, A005963, A000228, A001998, A018190.
Cf. A001207, A057973, A364306.
Cf. also A000105, A000577, A103465, A057779, A258206, A258019.

a(13) from Achim Flammenkamp, Feb 15 1999
a(14) from Brendan Owen, Dec 31 2001
a(15) from Joseph Myers, May 05 2002
a(16)-a(20) from Joseph Myers, Sep 21 2002
a(21) from Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), May 05 2007
a(22)-a(30) from John Mason, Jul 18 2023

A001998 Bending a piece of wire of length n+1; walks of length n+1 on a tetrahedron; also non-branched catafusenes with n+2 condensed hexagons.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 4, 10, 25, 70, 196, 574, 1681, 5002, 14884, 44530, 133225, 399310, 1196836, 3589414, 10764961, 32291602, 96864964, 290585050, 871725625, 2615147350, 7845353476, 23535971854, 70607649841, 211822683802, 635467254244, 1906400965570, 5719200505225, 17157599124190

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

The wire stays in the plane, there are n bends, each is R,L or O; turning the wire over does not count as a new figure.
Equivalently, walks of n+1 steps on a tetrahedron, visiting n+2 vertices, with n "corners"; the symmetry group is S4, reversing a walk does not count as different. Simply interpret R,L,O as instructions to turn R, turn L, or retrace the last step. Walks are not self-avoiding.
Also, it appears that a(n) gives the number of equivalence classes of n-tuples of 0, 1 and 2, where two n-tuples are equivalent if one can be obtained from the other by a sequence of operations R and C, where R denotes reversal and C denotes taking the 2's complement (C(x)=2-x). This has been verified up to a(19)=290585050. Example: for n=3 there are ten equivalence classes {000, 222}, {001, 100, 122, 221}, {002, 022, 200, 220}, {010, 212}, {011, 110, 112, 211}, {012, 210}, {020, 202}, {021, 102, 120, 201}, {101, 121}, {111}, so a(3)=10. - John W. Layman, Oct 13 2009
There exists a bijection between chains of n+2 hexagons and the above described equivalence classes of n-tuples of 0,1, and 2. Namely, for a given chain of n+2 hexagons we take the sequence of the numbers of vertices of degree 2 (0, 1, or 2) between the consecutive contact vertices on one side of the chain; switching to the other side we obtain the 2's complement of this sequence; reversing the order of the hexagons, we obtain the reverse sequence. The inverse mapping is straightforward. For example, to a linear chain of 7 hexagons there corresponds the 5-tuple 11111. - Emeric Deutsch, Apr 22 2013
If we treat two wire bends (or walks, or tuples) related by turning over (or reversing) as different in any of the above-given interpretations of this sequence, we get A007051 (or A124302). Also, a(n-1) is the sum of first 3 terms in n-th row of A284949, see crossrefs therein. - Andrey Zabolotskiy, Sep 29 2017
a(n-1) is the number of color patterns (set partitions) in an unoriented row of length n using 3 or fewer colors (subsets). - Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018
From Allan Bickle, Jun 02 2022: (Start)
a(n) is the number of (unlabeled) 3-paths with n+6 vertices. (A 3-path with order n at least 5 can be constructed from a 4-clique by iteratively adding a new 3-leaf (vertex of degree 3) adjacent to an existing 3-clique containing an existing 3-leaf.)
Recurrences appear in the papers by Bickle, Eckhoff, and Markenzon et al. (End)
a(n) is also the number of distinct planar embeddings of the (n+1)-alkane graph (up to at least n=9, and likely for all n). - Eric W. Weisstein, May 21 2024

			There are 2 ways to bend a piece of wire of length 2 (bend it or not).
For n=4 and a(n-1)=10, the 6 achiral patterns are AAAA, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCA, and ABBC.  The 4 chiral pairs are AAAB-ABBB, AABA-ABAA, AABC-ABCC, and ABAC-ABCB. - _Robert A. Russell_, Oct 28 2018

A. T. Balaban, Enumeration of Cyclic Graphs, pp. 63-105 of A. T. Balaban, ed., Chemical Applications of Graph Theory, Ac. Press, 1976; see p. 75.
S. J. Cyvin, B. N. Cyvin, and J. Brunvoll, Enumeration of tree-like octagonal systems: catapolyoctagons, ACH Models in Chem. 134 (1997), 55-70.
M. R. Nester (1999). Mathematical investigations of some plant interaction designs. PhD Thesis. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. [See A056391 for pdf file of Chap. 2.]
R. C. Read, The Enumeration of Acyclic Chemical Compounds, pp. 25-61 of A. T. Balaban, ed., Chemical Applications of Graph Theory, Ac. Press, 1976. [I think this reference does not mention this sequence. - N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 10 2006]
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).

Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..2092 (terms 0..500 from T. D. Noe)
A. T. Balaban, J. Brunvoll, B. N. Cyvin, and S. J. Cyvin, Enumeration of branched catacondensed benzenoid hydrocarbons and their numbers of Kekulé structures, Tetrahedron 44(1) (1988), 221-228. See Eq. (6), p. 223.
A. T. Balaban and F. Harary, Chemical graphs V: enumeration and proposed nomenclature of benzenoid cata-condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Tetrahedron 24 (1968), 2505-2516.
Christian Barrientos and Sarah Minion, On the Graceful Cartesian Product of Alpha-Trees, Theory and Applications of Graphs, Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 3, 2017. (It mentions this sequence on p. 7.)
L. W. Beineke and R. E. Pippert, On the enumeration of planar trees of hexagons, Glasgow Math. J., 15 (1974), 131-147.
L. W. Beineke and R. E. Pippert, On the enumeration of planar trees of hexagons, Glasgow Math. J., 15 (1974), 131-147 [annotated scanned copy].
Allan Bickle, How to Count k-Paths, J. Integer Sequences, 25 (2022) Article 22.5.6.
Allan Bickle, A Survey of Maximal k-degenerate Graphs and k-Trees, Theory and Applications of Graphs 0 1 (2024) Article 5.
S. J. Cyvin, B. N. Cyvin, and J. Brunvoll, Isomer enumeration of some polygonal systems representing polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons, Journal of Molecular structure 376 (Issues 1-3) (1996), 495-505. See Table 2 on p. 501.
S. J. Cyvin, B. N. Cyvin, and J. Brunvoll, Unbranched catacondensed polygonal systems containing hexagons and tetragons, Croatica Chem. Acta, 69 (1996), 757-774.
J. Eckhoff, Extremal interval graphs, J. Graph Theory 17 1 (1993), 117-127.
R. M. Foster, Solution to Problem E185, Amer. Math. Monthly, 44 (1937), 50-51.
R. M. Foster, Solution to Problem E185, Amer. Math. Monthly, 44 (1937), 50-51 [annotated scanned copy].
F. Harary and R. W. Robinson, Tapeworms, Unpublished manuscript, circa 1973. (Annotated scanned copy)
Thomas M. Liggett and Wenpin Tang, One-dependent hard-core processes and colorings of the star graph, arXiv:1804.06877 [math.PR], 2018.
L. Markenzon, O. Vernet, and P. R. da Costa Pereira, A clique-difference encoding scheme for labelled k-path graphs, Discrete Appl. Math. 156 (2008), 3216-3222.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
Gyula Tasi and Fujio Mizukami, Quantum algebraic-combinatoric study of the conformational properties of n-alkanes, J. Math. Chemistry, 25, 1999, 55-64 (see p. 60).
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Alkane Graph.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Planar Embedding.
Index entries for sequences obtained by enumerating foldings
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,0,-12,9).

Cf. A036359, A002216, A005963, A000228, A001997, A001444, A038766, A007051.
Column 3 of A320750, offset by one. Column k = 0 of A323942, offset by two.
Cf. A124302 (oriented), A107767 (chiral), A182522 (achiral), with varying offsets.
Column 3 of A320750.
The numbers of unlabeled k-paths for k = 2..7 are given in A005418, A001998, A056323, A056324, A056325, and A345207, respectively.
The sequences above converge to A103293(n+1).

a:=[];; for n in [2..45] do if n mod 2 =0 then Add(a,((3^((n-2)/2)+1)/2)^2); else Add(a,  3^((n-3)/2)+(1/4)*(3^(n-2)+1)); fi; od; a; # Muniru A Asiru, Oct 28 2018

A001998 := proc(n) if n = 0 then 1 elif n mod 2 = 1 then (1/4)*(3^n+4*3^((n-1)/2)+1) else (1/4)*(3^n+2*3^(n/2)+1); fi; end;
A001998:=(-1+3*z+2*z**2-8*z**3+3*z**4)/(z-1)/(3*z-1)/(3*z**2-1); # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation; gives sequence with an extra leading 1

a[n_?OddQ] := (1/4)*(3^n + 4*3^((n - 1)/2) + 1); a[n_?EvenQ] := (1/4)*(3^n + 2*3^(n/2) + 1); Table[a[n], {n, 0, 27}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jan 25 2013, from formula *)
LinearRecurrence[{4,0,-12,9},{1,2,4,10},30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 10 2013 *)
Ach[n_, k_] := Ach[n, k] = If[n<2, Boole[n==k && n>=0], k Ach[n-2,k] + Ach[n-2,k-1] + Ach[n-2,k-2]] (* A304972 *)
k=3; Table[Sum[StirlingS2[n,j]+Ach[n,j],{j,k}]/2,{n,40}] (* Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018 *)

Vec((1-2*x-4*x^2+6*x^3)/((1-x)*(1-3*x)*(1-3*x^2)) + O(x^50)) \\ Colin Barker, May 15 2016

a(n) = if n mod 2 = 0 then ((3^((n-2)/2)+1)/2)^2 else 3^((n-3)/2)+(1/4)*(3^(n-2)+1).
G.f.: (1-2*x-4*x^2+6*x^3) / ((1-x)*(1-3*x)*(1-3*x^2)). - Corrected by Colin Barker, May 15 2016
a(n) = 4*a(n-1)-12*a(n-3)+9*a(n-4), with a(0)=1, a(1)=2, a(2)=4, a(3)=10. - Harvey P. Dale, Apr 10 2013
a(n) = (1+3^n+3^(1/2*(-1+n))*(2-2*(-1)^n+sqrt(3)+(-1)^n*sqrt(3)))/4. - Colin Barker, May 15 2016
E.g.f.: (2*sqrt(3)*sinh(sqrt(3)*x) + 3*exp(2*x)*cosh(x) + 3*cosh(sqrt(3)*x))/6. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, May 15 2016
From Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018: (Start)
a(n-1) = (A124302(n) + A182522(n)) / 2 = A124302(n) - A107767(n-1) = A107767(n-1) + A182522(n).
a(n-1) = Sum_{j=1..k} (S2(n,j) + Ach(n,j)) / 2, where k=3 is the maximum number of colors, S2 is the Stirling subset number A008277, and Ach(n,k) = [n>=0 & n<2 & n==k] + [n>1]*(k*Ach(n-2,k) + Ach(n-2,k-1) + Ach(n-2,k-2)).
a(n-1) = A057427(n) + A056326(n) + A056327(n). (End)
a(2*n) = A007051(n)^2; a(2*n+1) = A007051(n)*A007051(n+1). - Todd Simpson, Mar 25 2024

Offset and Maple code corrected by Colin Mallows, Nov 12 1999

Term added by Robert A. Russell, Oct 30 2018

A002216 Harary-Read numbers: restricted hexagonal polyominoes (cata-polyhexes) with n cells.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 12, 37, 123, 446, 1689, 6693, 27034, 111630, 467262, 1981353, 8487400, 36695369, 159918120, 701957539, 3101072051, 13779935438, 61557789660, 276327463180, 1245935891922, 5640868033058, 25635351908072, 116911035023017

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Named after the American mathematician Frank Harary (1921-2005) and the British mathematician Ronald Cedric Read (1924-2019). - Amiram Eldar, Jun 22 2021

S. J. Cyvin, J. Brunvoll, X. F. Guo and F. J. Zhang, Number of perifusenes with one internal vertex, Rev. Roumaine Chem., Vol. 38, No. 1 (1993), pp. 65-77.
S. J. Cyvin, B. N. Cyvin, and J. Brunvoll, Enumeration of tree-like octagonal systems: catapolyoctagons, ACH Models in Chem., Vol. 134, No. 1 (1997), pp. 55-70.
J. L. Faulon, D. Visco and D. Roe, Enumerating Molecules, In: Reviews in Computational Chemistry Vol. 21, Ed. K. Lipkowitz, Wiley-VCH, 2005.
Wenchen He and Wenjie He, Generation and enumeration of planar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Tetrahedron, Vol. 42, No. 19 (1986), pp. 5291-5299. See Table 3.
J. V. Knop, K. Szymansky, Željko Jeričević and Nenad Trinajstić, On the total number of polyhexes, Match, Vol. 16 (1984), pp. 119-134.
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).
N. Trinajstich, Z. Jerievi, J. V. Knop, W. R. Muller and K. Szymanski, Computer generation of isomeric structures, Pure & Appl. Chem., Vol. 55, No. 2 (1983), pp. 379-390.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
L. W. Beineke and R. E. Pippert, On the enumeration of planar trees of hexagons, Glasgow Math. J., Vol. 15, No. 2 (1974), pp. 131-147.
L. W. Beineke and R. E. Pippert, On the enumeration of planar trees of hexagons, Glasgow Math. J., Vol. 15, No. 2 (1974), pp. 131-147. [Annotated scanned copy]
S. J. Cyvin, J. Brunvoll and B. N. Cyvin, Harary-Read numbers for catafusenes: Complete classification according to symmetry, Journal of mathematical chemistry, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1992), pp. 19-31 and 33-38. See Table 2.
F. Harary and R. C. Read, The enumeration of tree-like polyhexes, Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., Vol. 17, No. 1 (1970), pp. 1-13; alternative link.
J. V. Knop, K. Szymanski, Ž. Jeričević, and N. Trinajstić, On the total number of polyhexes, Match, No. 16 (1984), 119-134.
R. C. Read, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 12 1971. (includes 40 terms of A002212 and A002216)
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polyhex.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Fusene.

Cf. A036359, A005963, A000228, A001998.

Cf. A002212, A002213, A002214, A002215.

CoefficientList[Series[(12+(1-5*x)^(3/2)*(1-x)^(3/2)+24*x-48*x^2- 24*x^3- 3*(3+5 x)*Sqrt[1-5*x^2]*Sqrt[1-x^2]-4*Sqrt[1-5*x^3]*Sqrt[1-x^3])/ (24*x^2),{x,0,40}],x] (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 23 2013 *)

G.f.: (1/(24*x^2))*(12+24*x-48*x^2-24*x^3 +(1-x)^(3/2)*(1-5*x)^(3/2)-3*(3+5*x)*(1-x^2)^(1/2)*(1-5*x^2)^(1/2) -4*(1-x^3)^(1/2)*(1-5*x^3)^(1/2)).
a(n) = (1/2)[A002214(n)+A002215(n)], n>=1. - Emeric Deutsch, Dec 23 2003
a(n) ~ 5^(n+1/2)/(4*sqrt(Pi)*n^(5/2)). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Aug 09 2013

A036359 Number of branched catafusenes with n condensed hexagons.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 12, 53, 250, 1115, 5012, 22032, 96746, 422732, 1848128, 8088090, 35498533, 156328706, 691192578, 3068780449, 13683070474, 61267204610, 275455737555, 1243320744572, 5633022679582, 25611815936218, 116840427373176, 534705818846660, 2454282243059471

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

nonn

F. Harary and R. C. Read, The Enumeration of Tree-like Polyhexes, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc., Series II, 17 (1970), pp. 1-13.
Alexandru T. Balaban, The Enumeration of Cyclic Graphs, pp. 63-105 of A. T. Balaban, ed., Chemical Applications of Graph Theory, Ac. Press, 1976; see p. 75.

Cf. A036359, A002216, A005963, A000228, A001998.

a(n) = A002216(n) - A001998(n-2) with A001998(-1)=1. - Sean A. Irvine, Oct 26 2020

More terms from Sean A. Irvine, Oct 26 2020

A126026 Conjectured upper bound on area of the convex hull of any edge-to-edge connected system of regular unit hexagons (n-polyhexes).

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, 28, 33, 38, 43, 49, 55, 61, 68, 75, 82, 90, 97, 106, 114, 123, 133, 142, 152, 162, 173, 184, 195, 207, 219, 231, 244, 257, 270, 284, 297, 312, 326, 341, 357, 372, 388, 404, 421, 438, 455, 473, 491, 509, 528, 547, 566

Offset: 0

Jonathan Vos Post, Feb 27 2007

Kurz proved the polyomino equivalent of this conjecture as A122133 and abstracts: "In this article we prove a conjecture of Bezdek, Brass and Harborth concerning the maximum volume of the convex hull of any facet-to-facet connected system of n unit hypercubes in the d-dimensional Euclidean space. For d=2 we enumerate the extremal polyominoes and determine the set of possible areas of the convex hull for each n."

			a(10) = 24 because floor((10^2 + 14*10/3 + 1)/6) = floor(24.6111111) = 24.

Colin Barker, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Sascha Kurz, Convex hulls of polyominoes, arXiv:math/0702786 [math.CO], Feb 26 2007. See conjecture 2, p. 12.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polyhex.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,-1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,-2,1).

Cf. A000228, A036359, A002216, A005963, A001998, A018190, A001207, A057973, A122133.

Table[Floor[(n^2+14n/3+1)/6],{n,0,80}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 11 2012 *)

concat(0, Vec(x*(1 +x^2)*(1 -x^3 +2*x^4 -x^6 +x^7 +x^11 -x^13 +x^14 +x^15 -x^16) / ((1 -x)^3*(1 +x)*(1 -x +x^2)*(1 +x +x^2)*(1 -x^3 +x^6)*(1 +x^3 +x^6)) + O(x^50))) \\ Colin Barker, Oct 13 2016

a(n) = (n^2 + 14*n/3 + 1)\6 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 13 2016

a(n) = floor((n^2 + 14*n/3 + 1)/6).

G.f.: x*(1 +x^2)*(1 -x^3 +2*x^4 -x^6 +x^7 +x^11 -x^13 +x^14 +x^15 -x^16) / ((1 -x)^3*(1 +x)*(1 -x +x^2)*(1 +x +x^2)*(1 -x^3 +x^6)*(1 +x^3 +x^6)). - Colin Barker, Oct 13 2016

More terms from Harvey P. Dale, Apr 11 2012

Offset changed to 0 by Colin Barker, Oct 13 2016

A178778 Partial sums of walks of length n+1 on a tetrahedron A001998.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 3, 7, 17, 42, 112, 308, 882, 2563, 7565, 22449, 66979, 200204, 599514, 1796350, 5385764, 16150725, 48442327, 145307291, 435892341, 1307617966, 3922765316, 11768118792, 35304090646, 105911740487, 317734424289, 953201678533, 2859602644103, 8578803149328

Offset: 0

Jonathan Vos Post, Dec 26 2010

The subsequence of primes begins 3, 7, 17, no more through a(27).

			a(5) = 1 + 2 + 4 + 10 + 25 + 70 = 112.

Colin Barker, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (5,-4,-12,21,-9).

Cf. A001998, A036359, A002216, A005963, A000228, A001997, A001444, A038766.

m:=30; R:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), m); Coefficients(R!( (6*x^3-4*x^2-2*x+1)/((x-1)^2*(3*x-1)*(3*x^2-1)) )); // G. C. Greubel, Jan 24 2019

CoefficientList[Series[(6*x^3-4*x^2-2*x+1)/((x-1)^2*(3*x-1)*(3*x^2-1)), {x,0,30}], x] (* G. C. Greubel, Jan 24 2019 *)

Vec((1-2*x-4*x^2+6*x^3)/((1-x)^2*(1-3*x)*(1-3*x^2)) + O(x^50)) \\ Colin Barker, May 17 2016

((6*x^3-4*x^2-2*x+1)/((x-1)^2*(3*x-1)*(3*x^2-1))).series(x, 30).coefficients(x, sparse=False) # G. C. Greubel, Jan 24 2019

a(n) = Sum_{i=0..n} (if i mod 2 = 0 then ((3^((i-2)/2)+1)/2)^2 else 3^((i-3)/2)+(1/4)*(3^(i-2)+1)).
G.f.: (6*x^3-4*x^2-2*x+1) / ((x-1)^2*(3*x-1)*(3*x^2-1)). - Colin Barker, Apr 20 2013
From Colin Barker, May 17 2016: (Start)
a(n) = (-7+3^(1+n)+3^(1/2*(-1+n))*(9-9*(-1)^n+5*sqrt(3)+5*(-1)^n*sqrt(3))+2*(1+n))/8.
a(n) = (2*n + 10*3^(n/2) + 3^(n+1) - 5)/8 for n even.
a(n) = (2*n + 3^(n+1) + 2*3^((n+3)/2) - 5)/8 for n odd.
a(n) = 5*a(n-1) - 4*a(n-2) - 12*a(n-3) + 21*a(n-4) - 9*a(n-5) for n>4.
(End)

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A000228 Number of hexagonal polyominoes (or hexagonal polyforms, or planar polyhexes) with n cells.

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A001998 Bending a piece of wire of length n+1; walks of length n+1 on a tetrahedron; also non-branched catafusenes with n+2 condensed hexagons.

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A002216 Harary-Read numbers: restricted hexagonal polyominoes (cata-polyhexes) with n cells.

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A036359 Number of branched catafusenes with n condensed hexagons.

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A126026 Conjectured upper bound on area of the convex hull of any edge-to-edge connected system of regular unit hexagons (n-polyhexes).

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A178778 Partial sums of walks of length n+1 on a tetrahedron A001998.

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