A163876 Number of reduced words of length n in Coxeter group on 3 generators S_i with relations (S_i)^2 = (S_i S_j)^6 = I.

1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 93, 180, 351, 684, 1332, 2592, 5046, 9825, 19128, 37239, 72498, 141144, 274788, 534972, 1041513, 2027676, 3947595, 7685400, 14962368, 29129580, 56711106, 110408373, 214949232, 418475259, 814711182, 1586125572, 3087958512

Offset: 0

Author

John Cannon and N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 03 2009

Keywords

• nonn
• easy

Comments

Also, coordination sequence for (6,6,6) tiling of hyperbolic plane. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 29 2015

The initial terms coincide with those of A003945, although the two sequences are eventually different.

Computed with MAGMA using commands similar to those used to compute A154638.

Links

• G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
• J. W. Cannon, P. Wagreich, Growth functions of surface groups, Mathematische Annalen, 1992, Volume 293, pp. 239-257. See Prop. 3.1.
• Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1).

Crossrefs

Coordination sequences for triangular tilings of hyperbolic space: A001630, A007283, A054886, A078042, A096231, A163876, A179070, A265057, A265058, A265059, A265060, A265061, A265062, A265063, A265064, A265065, A265066, A265067, A265068, A265069, A265070, A265071, A265072, A265073, A265074, A265075, A265076, A265077.

Programs

Magma

R:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), 40); Coefficients(R!( (1+x)*(1-x^6)/(1-2*x+2*x^6-x^7) )); // G. C. Greubel, Apr 25 2019

Mathematica

coxG[{6,1,-1,40}] (* The coxG program is at A169452 *) (* Harvey P. Dale, Mar 22 2015 *)
CoefficientList[Series[(1+x)*(1-x^6)/(1-2*x+2*x^6-x^7), {x,0,40}], x] (* G. C. Greubel, Aug 06 2017, modified Apr 25 2019 *)

PARI

x='x+O('x^40); Vec((x^6+2*x^5+2*x^4+2*x^3+2*x^2+2*x+1)/(x^6-x^5- x^4-x^3-x^2-x+1)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Aug 06 2017

Sage

((1+x)*(1-x^6)/(1-2*x+2*x^6-x^7)).series(x, 40).coefficients(x, sparse=False) # G. C. Greubel, Apr 25 2019

Formula

G.f.: (x^6 + 2*x^5 + 2*x^4 + 2*x^3 + 2*x^2 + 2*x + 1)/(x^6 - x^5 - x^4 - x^3 - x^2 - x + 1).

G.f.: (1+x)*(1-x^6)/(1-2*x+2*x^6-x^7). - G. C. Greubel, Apr 25 2019

a(n) = -a(n-6) + Sum_{k=1..5} a(n-k). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, May 07 2021