A172201 Number of ways to place 3 nonattacking amazons (superqueens) on an n X n board.

0, 0, 0, 0, 48, 424, 1976, 6616, 17852, 41544, 86660, 166288, 298616, 508200, 827168, 1296744, 1968676, 2907016, 4189772, 5910944, 8182400, 11136168, 14926536, 19732600, 25760588, 33246664, 42459476, 53703216, 67320392, 83695144

Offset: 1

Author

Vaclav Kotesovec, Jan 29 2010

Keywords

• nonn
• easy

Comments

An amazon (superqueen) moves like a queen and a knight.

References

• Panos Louridas, idee & form 93/2007, pp. 2936-2938.

Links

• Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
• Vaclav Kotesovec, Number of ways of placing non-attacking queens and kings on boards of various sizes
• Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (5,-8,0,14,-14,0,8,-5,1).

Crossrefs

Cf. A047659, A051223, A051224, A061989, A172200.

Programs

Magma

R:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), 40); [0,0,0,0] cat Coefficients(R!( 4*x^5*(12+46*x+60*x^2+32*x^3-23*x^4-13*x^5+7*x^6-x^7)/((1+x)^2*(1-x)^7 ))); // G. C. Greubel, Apr 29 2022

Mathematica

CoefficientList[Series[4*x^5*(12+46*x+60*x^2+32*x^3-23*x^4-13*x^5+7*x^6-x^7)/((1+x)^2*(1-x)^7), {x, 0, 40}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, May 27 2013 *)

SageMath

[(1/24)*(4*n^6 -40*n^5 +62*n^4 +628*n^3 -2904*n^2 +4074*n -1341 +3*(-1)^n*(2*n-1)) -4*(5*bool(n==1) +2*bool(n==2) -bool(n==3)) for n in (1..40)] # G. C. Greubel, Apr 29 2022

Formula

Explicit formula (Panos Louridas, 2007): a(n) = (2*n^6 - 20*n^5 + 31*n^4 + 314*n^3 - 1452*n^2 + 2040*n - 672)/12 if n is even (n >= 4) and a(n) = (2*n^6 - 20*n^5 + 31*n^4 + 314*n^3 - 1452*n^2 + 2034*n - 669)/12 if n is odd (n >= 5).

G.f.: 4*x^5*(12+46*x+60*x^2+32*x^3-23*x^4-13*x^5+7*x^6-x^7)/((1+x)^2*(1-x)^7). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 24 2010

a(n) = (1/24)*(4*n^6 - 40*n^5 + 62*n^4 + 628*n^3 - 2904*n^2 + 4074*n - 1341 + 3*(-1)^n*(2*n-1)) - 20*[n=1] - 8*[n=2] + 4*[n=3]. - G. C. Greubel, Apr 29 2022