A099366 Squares of A005668.

0, 1, 36, 1369, 51984, 1974025, 74960964, 2846542609, 108093658176, 4104712468081, 155870980128900, 5918992532430121, 224765845252215696, 8535183127051766329, 324112192982714904804, 12307728150216114616225

Offset: 0

Author

Wolfdieter Lang, Oct 18 2004

Keywords

• nonn
• easy

Comments

See the comment in A099279. This is example a=6.

a(n+1) is the number of tilings of an n-board (a board with dimensions n X 1) using half-squares (1/2 X 1 pieces, always placed so that the shorter sides are horizontal) and (1/2,1/2)-fences if there are 6 kinds of half-squares available. A (w,g)-fence is a tile composed of two w X 1 pieces separated horizontally by a gap of width g. a(n+1) also equals the number of tilings of an n-board using (1/4,1/4)-fences and (1/4,3/4)-fences if there are 6 kinds of (1/4,1/4)-fences available. - Michael A. Allen, Apr 21 2023

Links

• Michael A. Allen and Kenneth Edwards, Fence tiling derived identities involving the metallonacci numbers squared or cubed, Fib. Q. 60:5 (2022) 5-17.
• Sergio Falcon, Some series of reciprocal k-Fibonacci numbers, Asian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Research, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2016), pp. 184-191; ResearchGate link.
• Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (37,37,-1).
• Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.

Crossrefs

Cf. other squares of k-metallonacci numbers (for k=1 to 10): A007598, A079291, A092936, A099279, A099365, this sequence, A099367, A099369, A099372, A099374.

Programs

Maple

with (combinat):seq(fibonacci(n,6)^2,n=0..15); # Zerinvary Lajos, Apr 09 2008

Mathematica

LinearRecurrence[{37,37,-1},{0,1,36},20] (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 23 2018 *)

Formula

a(n) = A005668(n)^2.

a(n) = 37*a(n-1) + 37*a(n-2) - a(n-3), n >= 3; a(0)=0, a(1)=1, a(2)=36.

a(n) = 38*a(n-1) - a(n-2) - 2*(-1)^n, n >= 2; a(0)=0, a(1)=1.

a(n) = (T(n, 19) - (-1)^n)/20 with the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind: T(n, 19) = A078986(n).

G.f.: x*(1-x)/((1 - 38*x + x^2)*(1+x)) = x*(1-x)/(1 - 37*x - 37*x^2 + x^3).

a(n) = (1 - (-1)^n)/2 + 36*Sum_{r=1..n-1} r*a(n-r). - Michael A. Allen, Apr 21 2023

Product_{n>=2} (1 + (-1)^n/a(n)) = (3 + sqrt(10))/6 (Falcon, 2016, p. 189, eq. (3.1)). - Amiram Eldar, Dec 03 2024