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A001541 a(0) = 1, a(1) = 3; for n > 1, a(n) = 6*a(n-1) - a(n-2).

1, 3, 17, 99, 577, 3363, 19601, 114243, 665857, 3880899, 22619537, 131836323, 768398401, 4478554083, 26102926097, 152139002499, 886731088897, 5168247530883, 30122754096401, 175568277047523, 1023286908188737, 5964153172084899, 34761632124320657

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind evaluated at 3.
This sequence gives the values of x in solutions of the Diophantine equation x^2 - 8*y^2 = 1, the corresponding values of y are in A001109. For n > 0, the ratios a(n)/A001090(n) may be obtained as convergents to sqrt(8): either successive convergents of [3; -6] or odd convergents of [2; 1, 4]. - Lekraj Beedassy, Sep 09 2003 [edited by Jon E. Schoenfield, May 04 2014]
Also gives solutions to the equation x^2 - 1 = floor(x*r*floor(x/r)) where r = sqrt(8). - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 14 2004
Appears to give all solutions greater than 1 to the equation: x^2 = ceiling(x*r*floor(x/r)) where r = sqrt(2). - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 24 2004
This sequence give numbers n such that (n-1)*(n+1)/2 is a perfect square. Remark: (i-1)*(i+1)/2 = (i^2-1)/2 = -1 = i^2 with i = sqrt(-1) so i is also in the sequence. - Pierre CAMI, Apr 20 2005
a(n) is prime for n = {1, 2, 4, 8}. Prime a(n) are {3, 17, 577, 665857}, which belong to A001601(n). a(2k-1) is divisible by a(1) = 3. a(4k-2) is divisible by a(2) = 17. a(8k-4) is divisible by a(4) = 577. a(16k-8) is divisible by a(8) = 665857. - Alexander Adamchuk, Nov 24 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=A001542. - Clark Kimberling, Aug 26 2008
Also index of sequence A082532 for which A082532(n) = 1. - Carmine Suriano, Sep 07 2010
Numbers n such that sigma(n-1) and sigma(n+1) are both odd numbers. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Mar 28 2011
Also, numbers such that floor(a(n)^2/2) is a square: base 2 analog of A031149, A204502, A204514, A204516, A204518, A204520, A004275, A001075. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 15 2012
Numbers such that 2n^2 - 2 is a square. Also integer square roots of the expression 2*n^2 + 1, at values of n given by A001542. Also see A228405 regarding 2n^2 -+ 2^k generally for k >= 0. - Richard R. Forberg, Aug 20 2013
Values of x (or y) in the solutions to x^2 - 6xy + y^2 + 8 = 0. - Colin Barker, Feb 04 2014
Panda and Ray call the numbers in this sequence the Lucas-balancing numbers C_n (see references and links).
Partial sums of X or X+1 of Pythagorean triples (X,X+1,Z). - Peter M. Chema, Feb 03 2017
a(n)/A001542(n) is the closest rational approximation to sqrt(2) with a numerator not larger than a(n), and 2*A001542(n)/a(n) is the closest rational approximation to sqrt(2) with a denominator not larger than a(n). These rational approximations together with those obtained from the sequences A001653 and A002315 give a complete set of closest rational approximations to sqrt(2) with restricted numerator or denominator. a(n)/A001542(n) > sqrt(2) > 2*A001542(n)/a(n). - A.H.M. Smeets, May 28 2017
x = a(n), y = A001542(n) are solutions of the Diophantine equation x^2 - 2y^2 = 1 (Pell equation). x = 2*A001542(n), y = a(n) are solutions of the Diophantine equation x^2 - 2y^2 = -2. Both together give the set of fractional approximations for sqrt(2) obtained from limited fractions obtained from continued fraction representation to sqrt(2). - A.H.M. Smeets, Jun 22 2017
a(n) is the radius of the n-th circle among the sequence of circles generated as follows: Starting with a unit circle centered at the origin, every subsequent circle touches the previous circle as well as the two limbs of hyperbola x^2 - y^2 = 1, and lies in the region y > 0. - Kaushal Agrawal, Nov 10 2018
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, 0A001542(n), b=A005319(n), c=A001542(n+1), x=A001541(n), y=A001653(n+1), z=A002315(n) with 0Michael Somos, Jun 26 2022

			99^2 + 99^2 = 140^2 + 2. - _Carmine Suriano_, Jan 05 2015
G.f. = 1 + 3*x + 17*x^2 + 99*x^3 + 577*x^4 + 3363*x^5 + 19601*x^6 + 114243*x^7 + ...

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Index entries for two-way infinite sequences
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (6,-1).
Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.

Bisection of A001333. A003499(n) = 2a(n).
Cf. A055997 = numbers n such that n(n-1)/2 is a square.
Row 1 of array A188645.
Cf. A046090, A001109, A053142, A084130, A001601, A056771, A077420, A005319, A082532, A001542.
Cf. A055792 (terms squared), A132592.

a001541 n = a001541_list !! (n-1)
a001541_list =
1 : 3 : zipWith (-) (map (* 6) $ tail a001541_list) a001541_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 06 2011
(Scheme, with memoization-macro definec)
(definec (A001541 n) (cond ((zero? n) 1) ((= 1 n) 3) (else (- (* 6 (A001541 (- n 1))) (A001541 (- n 2))))))
;; Antti Karttunen, Oct 04 2016

[n: n in [1..10000000] |IsSquare(8*(n^2-1))]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 18 2010

a[0]:=1: a[1]:=3: for n from 2 to 26 do a[n]:=6*a[n-1]-a[n-2] od: seq(a[n], n=0..20); # Zerinvary Lajos, Jul 26 2006
A001541:=-(-1+3*z)/(1-6*z+z**2); # Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation

Table[Simplify[(1/2) (3 + 2 Sqrt[2])^n + (1/2) (3 - 2 Sqrt[2])^n], {n, 0, 20}] (* Artur Jasinski, Feb 10 2010 *)
a[ n_] := If[n == 0, 1, With[{m = Abs @ n}, m Sum[4^i Binomial[m + i, 2 i]/(m + i), {i, 0, m}]]]; (* Michael Somos, Jul 11 2011 *)
a[ n_] := ChebyshevT[ n, 3]; (* Michael Somos, Jul 11 2011 *)
LinearRecurrence[{6, -1}, {1, 3}, 50] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Feb 12 2012 *)

{a(n) = real((3 + quadgen(32))^n)}; /* Michael Somos, Apr 07 2003 */

{a(n) = subst( poltchebi( abs(n)), x, 3)}; /* Michael Somos, Apr 07 2003 */

{a(n) = if( n<0, a(-n), polsym(1 - 6*x + x^2, n) [n+1] / 2)}; /* Michael Somos, Apr 07 2003 */

{a(n) = polchebyshev( n, 1, 3)}; /* Michael Somos, Jul 11 2011 */

a(n)=([1,2,2;2,1,2;2,2,3]^n)[3,3] \\ Vim Wenders, Mar 28 2007

G.f.: (1-3*x)/(1-6*x+x^2). - Barry E. Williams and Wolfdieter Lang, May 05 2000
E.g.f.: exp(3*x)*cosh(2*sqrt(2)*x). Binomial transform of A084128. - Paul Barry, May 16 2003
From N. J. A. Sloane, May 16 2003: (Start)
a(n) = sqrt(8*((A001109(n))^2) + 1).
a(n) = T(n, 3), with Chebyshev's T-polynomials A053120. (End)
a(n) = ((3+2*sqrt(2))^n + (3-2*sqrt(2))^n)/2.
a(n) = cosh(2*n*arcsinh(1)). - Herbert Kociemba, Apr 24 2008
a(n) ~ (1/2)*(sqrt(2) + 1)^(2*n). - Joe Keane (jgk(AT)jgk.org), May 15 2002
For all elements x of the sequence, 2*x^2 - 2 is a square. Limit_{n -> infinity} a(n)/a(n-1) = 3 + 2*sqrt(2). - Gregory V. Richardson, Oct 10 2002 [corrected by Peter Pein, Mar 09 2009]
a(n) = 3*A001109(n) - A001109(n-1), n >= 1. - Barry E. Williams and Wolfdieter Lang, May 05 2000
For n >= 1, a(n) = A001652(n) - A001652(n-1). - Charlie Marion, Jul 01 2003
From Paul Barry, Sep 18 2003: (Start)
a(n) = ((-1+sqrt(2))^n + (1+sqrt(2))^n + (1-sqrt(2))^n + (-1-sqrt(2))^n)/4 (with interpolated zeros).
E.g.f.: cosh(x)*cosh(sqrt(2)x) (with interpolated zeros). (End)
For n > 0, a(n)^2 + 1 = 2*A001653(n-1)*A001653(n). - Charlie Marion, Dec 21 2003
a(n)^2 + a(n+1)^2 = 2*(A001653(2*n+1) - A001652(2*n)). - Charlie Marion, Mar 17 2003
a(n) = Sum_{k >= 0} binomial(2*n, 2*k)*2^k = Sum_{k >= 0} A086645(n, k)*2^k. - Philippe Deléham, Feb 29 2004
a(n)*A002315(n+k) = A001652(2*n+k) + A001652(k) + 1; for k > 0, a(n+k)*A002315(n) = A001652(2*n+k) - A001652(k-1). - Charlie Marion, Mar 17 2003
For n > k, a(n)*A001653(k) = A011900(n+k) + A053141(n-k-1). For n <= k, a(n)*A001653(k) = A011900(n+k) + A053141(k-n). - Charlie Marion, Oct 18 2004
A053141(n+1) + A055997(n+1) = a(n+1) + A001109(n+1). - Creighton Dement, Sep 16 2004
a(n+1) - A001542(n+1) = A090390(n+1) - A046729(n) = A001653(n); a(n+1) - 4*A079291(n+1) = (-1)^(n+1). Formula generated by the floretion - .5'i + .5'j - .5i' + .5j' - 'ii' + 'jj' - 2'kk' + 'ij' + .5'ik' + 'ji' + .5'jk' + .5'ki' + .5'kj' + e. - Creighton Dement, Nov 16 2004
a(n) = sqrt( A055997(2*n) ). - Alexander Adamchuk, Nov 24 2006
a(2n) = A056771(n). a(2*n+1) = 3*A077420(n). - Alexander Adamchuk, Feb 01 2007
a(n) = (A000129(n)^2)*4 + (-1)^n. - Vim Wenders, Mar 28 2007
2*a(k)*A001653(n)*A001653(n+k) = A001653(n)^2 + A001653(n+k)^2 + A001542(k)^2. - Charlie Marion, Oct 12 2007
a(n) = A001333(2*n). - Ctibor O. Zizka, Aug 13 2008
A028982(a(n)-1) + 2 = A028982(a(n)+1). - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Mar 28 2011
a(n) = 2*A001108(n) + 1. - Paul Weisenhorn, Dec 17 2011
a(n) = sqrt(2*x^2 + 1) with x being A001542(n). - Zak Seidov, Jan 30 2013
a(2n) = 2*a(n)^2 - 1 = a(n)^2 + 2*A001542(n)^2. a(2*n+1) = 1 + 2*A002315(n)^2. - Steven J. Haker, Dec 04 2013
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) + 4*A001542(n-1); e.g., a(4) = 99 = 3*17 + 4*12. - Zak Seidov, Dec 19 2013
a(n) = cos(n * arccos(3)) = cosh(n * log(3 + 2*sqrt(2))). - Daniel Suteu, Jul 28 2016
From Ilya Gutkovskiy, Jul 28 2016: (Start)
Inverse binomial transform of A084130.
Exponential convolution of A000079 and A084058.
Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n*a(n)/n! = cosh(2*sqrt(2))/exp(3) = 0.4226407909842764637... (End)
a(2*n+1) = 2*a(n)*a(n+1) - 3. - Timothy L. Tiffin, Oct 12 2016
a(n) = a(-n) for all n in Z. - Michael Somos, Jan 20 2017
a(2^n) = A001601(n+1). - A.H.M. Smeets, May 28 2017
a(A298210(n)) = A002350(2*n^2). - A.H.M. Smeets, Jan 25 2018
a(n) = S(n, 6) - 3*S(n-1, 6), for n >= 0, with S(n, 6) = A001109(n+1), (Chebyshev S of A049310). See the first comment and the formula a(n) = T(n, 3). - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 22 2020
From Peter Bala, Dec 31 2021: (Start)
a(n) = [x^n] (3*x + sqrt(1 + 8*x^2))^n.
The Gauss congruences a(n*p^k) == a(n*p^(k-1)) hold for all prime p and positive integers n and k.
O.g.f. A(x) = 1 + x*d/dx(log(B(x))), where B(x) = 1/sqrt(1 - 6*x + x^2) is the o.g.f. of A001850. (End)
From Peter Bala, Aug 17 2022: (Start)
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n) - 2/a(n)) = 1/2.
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n) + 1/a(n)) = 1/4.
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n)^2 - 2) = 1/2 - 1/sqrt(8). (End)
From  Peter Bala, Jun 23 2025: (Start)
Product_{n >= 0} (1 + 1/a(2^n)) = sqrt(2).
Product_{n >= 0} (1 - 1/(2*a(2^n))) = (4/7)*sqrt(2). See A002812. (End)

A058331 a(n) = 2*n^2 + 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 3, 9, 19, 33, 51, 73, 99, 129, 163, 201, 243, 289, 339, 393, 451, 513, 579, 649, 723, 801, 883, 969, 1059, 1153, 1251, 1353, 1459, 1569, 1683, 1801, 1923, 2049, 2179, 2313, 2451, 2593, 2739, 2889, 3043, 3201, 3363, 3529, 3699, 3873, 4051

Offset: 0

Erich Friedman, Dec 12 2000

Maximal number of regions in the plane that can be formed with n hyperbolas.
Also the number of different 2 X 2 determinants with integer entries from 0 to n.
Number of lattice points in an n-dimensional ball of radius sqrt(2). - David W. Wilson, May 03 2001
Equals A112295(unsigned) * [1, 2, 3, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Oct 07 2007
Binomial transform of A166926. - Gary W. Adamson, May 03 2008
a(n) = longest side a of all integer-sided triangles with sides a <= b <= c and inradius n >= 1. Triangle has sides (2n^2 + 1, 2n^2 + 2, 4n^2 + 1).
{a(k): 0 <= k < 3} = divisors of 9. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 17 2009
Number of ways to partition a 3*n X 2 grid into 3 connected equal-area regions. - R. H. Hardin, Oct 31 2009
Let A be the Hessenberg matrix of order n defined by: A[1, j] = 1, A[i, i] := 2, (i > 1), A[i, i - 1] = -1, and A[i, j] = 0 otherwise. Then, for n >= 3, a(n - 1) = coeff(charpoly(A, x), x^(n - 2)). - Milan Janjic, Jan 26 2010
Except for the first term of [A002522] and [A058331] if X = [A058331], Y = [A087113], A = [A002522], we have, for all other terms, Pell's equation: [A058331]^2 - [A002522]*[A087113]^2 = 1; (X^2 - A*Y^2 = 1); e.g., 3^2 -2*2^2 = 1; 9^2 - 5*4^2 = 1; 129^2 - 65*16^2 = 1, and so on. - Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 07 2010
Niven (1961) gives this formula as an example of a formula that does not contain all odd integers, in contrast to 2n + 1 and 2n - 1. - Alonso del Arte, Dec 05 2012
Numbers m such that 2*m-2 is a square. - Vincenzo Librandi, Apr 10 2015
Number of n-tuples from the set {1,0,-1} where at most two elements are nonzero. - Michael Somos, Oct 19 2022
a(n) gives the x-value of the integral solution (x,y) of the Pellian equation x^2 - (n^2 + 1)*y^2 = 1. The y-value is given by 2*n (see Tattersall). - Stefano Spezia, Jul 23 2025

			a(1) = 3 since (0 0 / 0 0), (1 0 / 0 1) and (0 1 / 1 0) have different determinants.
G.f. = 1 + 3*x + 9*x^2 + 19*x^3 + 33*x^4 + 51*x^5 + 73*x^6 + ... - _Michael Somos_, Oct 19 2022

Ivan Niven, Numbers: Rational and Irrational, New York: Random House for Yale University (1961): 17.
James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, Cambridge University Press, 1999, page 256.

G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..5000
Steven Edwards and William Griffiths, On Generalized Delannoy Numbers, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.3.6.
Milan Janjić, On Restricted Ternary Words and Insets, arXiv:1905.04465 [math.CO], 2019.
Clark Kimberling, Complementary Equations, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 10 (2007), Article 07.1.4.
Leo Tavares, Illustration: Triangular Outlines
Reinhard Zumkeller, Enumerations of Divisors.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (3,-3,1).

Cf. A000124.
Second row of array A099597.
See A120062 for sequences related to integer-sided triangles with integer inradius n.
Cf. A112295.
Cf. A087113, A002552.
Cf. A005408, A016813, A086514, A000125, A002522, A161701, A161702, A161703, A000127, A161704, A161706, A161707, A161708, A161710, A080856, A161711, A161712, A161713, A161715, A006261.
Cf. A001079, A037270, A071253, A108741, A132592, A146311, A146312, A146313, A173115, A173116, A173121.
Column 2 of array A188645.
Cf. A001105 and A247375. - Bruno Berselli, Sep 16 2014
Cf. A056106, A251599.
Cf. A000384, A000217, A166926.

a058331 = (+ 1) . a001105  -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Dec 13 2014

[2*n^2 + 1 : n in [0..100]]; // Wesley Ivan Hurt, Feb 02 2017

b[g_] := Length[Union[Map[Det, Flatten[ Table[{{i, j}, {k, l}}, {i, 0, g}, {j, 0, g}, {k, 0, g}, {l, 0, g}], 3]]]] Table[b[g], {g, 0, 20}]
2*Range[0, 49]^2 + 1 (* Alonso del Arte, Dec 05 2012 *)

a(n)=2*n^2+1 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 16 2011

G.f.: (1 + 3x^2)/(1 - x)^3. - Paul Barry, Apr 06 2003
a(n) = M^n * [1 1 1], leftmost term, where M = the 3 X 3 matrix [1 1 1 / 0 1 4 / 0 0 1]. a(0) = 1, a(1) = 3; a(n) = 3*a(n-1) - 3*a(n-2) + a(n-3). E.g., a(4) = 33 since M^4 *[1 1 1] = [33 17 1]. - Gary W. Adamson, Nov 11 2004
a(n) = cosh(2*arccosh(n)). - Artur Jasinski, Feb 10 2010
a(n) = 4*n + a(n-1) - 2 for n > 0, a(0) = 1. - Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 07 2010
a(n) = (((n-1)^2 + n^2))/2 + (n^2 + (n+1)^2)/2. - J. M. Bergot, May 31 2012
a(n) = A251599(3*n) for n > 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Dec 13 2014
a(n) = sqrt(8*(A000217(n-1)^2 + A000217(n)^2) + 1). - J. M. Bergot, Sep 03 2015
E.g.f.: (2*x^2 + 2*x + 1)*exp(x). - G. C. Greubel, Jul 14 2017
a(n) = A002378(n) + A002061(n). - Bruce J. Nicholson, Aug 06 2017
From Amiram Eldar, Jul 15 2020: (Start)
Sum_{n>=0} 1/a(n) = (1 + (Pi/sqrt(2))*coth(Pi/sqrt(2)))/2.
Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n/a(n) = (1 + (Pi/sqrt(2))*csch(Pi/sqrt(2)))/2. (End)
From Amiram Eldar, Feb 05 2021: (Start)
Product_{n>=0} (1 + 1/a(n)) = sqrt(2)*csch(Pi/sqrt(2))*sinh(Pi).
Product_{n>=1} (1 - 1/a(n)) = (Pi/sqrt(2))*csch(Pi/sqrt(2)). (End)
From Leo Tavares, May 23 2022: (Start)
a(n) = A000384(n+1) - 3*n.
a(n) = 3*A000217(n) + A000217(n-2). (End)
a(n) = a(-n) for all n in Z and A037235(n) = Sum_{k=0..n-1} a(k). - Michael Somos, Oct 19 2022

Revised description from Noam Katz (noamkj(AT)hotmail.com), Jan 28 2001

A005899 Number of points on surface of octahedron; also coordination sequence for cubic lattice: a(0) = 1; for n > 0, a(n) = 4n^2 + 2.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 6, 18, 38, 66, 102, 146, 198, 258, 326, 402, 486, 578, 678, 786, 902, 1026, 1158, 1298, 1446, 1602, 1766, 1938, 2118, 2306, 2502, 2706, 2918, 3138, 3366, 3602, 3846, 4098, 4358, 4626, 4902, 5186, 5478, 5778, 6086, 6402, 6726, 7058, 7398, 7746, 8102, 8466

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Also, the number of regions the plane can be cut into by two overlapping concave (2n)-gons. - Joshua Zucker, Nov 05 2002
If X is an n-set and Y_i (i=1,2,3) are mutually disjoint 2-subsets of X then a(n-5) is equal to the number of 5-subsets of X intersecting each Y_i (i=1,2,3). - Milan Janjic, Aug 26 2007
Binomial transform of a(n) is A055580(n). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Apr 15 2014
The identity (4*n^2+2)^2 - (n^2+1)*(4*n)^2 = 4 can be written as a(n)^2 - A002522(n)*A008586(n)^2 = 4. - Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 15 2014
Also the least number of unit cubes required, at the n-th iteration, to surround a 3D solid built from unit cubes, in order to hide all its visible faces, starting with a unit cube. - R. J. Cano, Sep 29 2015
Also, coordination sequence for "tfs" 3D uniform tiling. - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 10 2018
Also, the number of n-th order specular reflections arriving at a receiver point from an emitter point inside a cuboid with reflective faces. - Michael Schutte, Sep 18 2018

H. S. M. Coxeter, "Polyhedral numbers," in R. S. Cohen et al., editors, For Dirk Struik. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1974, pp. 25-35.
Gmelin Handbook of Inorg. and Organomet. Chem., 8th Ed., 1994, TYPIX search code (225) cF8
B. Grünbaum, Uniform tilings of 3-space, Geombinatorics, 4 (1994), 49-56. See tilings #16 and #22.
R. W. Marks and R. B. Fuller, The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller. Anchor, NY, 1973, p. 46.
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..1000
Barry Balof, Restricted tilings and bijections, J. Integer Seq. 15 (2012), no. 2, Article 12.2.3, 17 pp.
J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, Low-Dimensional Lattices VII: Coordination Sequences, Proc. Royal Soc. London, A453 (1997), 2369-2389 (pdf).
Pierre de la Harpe, On the prehistory of growth of groups, arXiv:2106.02499 [math.GR], 2021.
R. W. Grosse-Kunstleve, Coordination Sequences and Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
R. W. Grosse-Kunstleve, G. O. Brunner and N. J. A. Sloane, Algebraic Description of Coordination Sequences and Exact Topological Densities for Zeolites, Acta Cryst., A52 (1996), pp. 879-889.
Milan Janjic, Two Enumerative Functions
Milan Janjić, On Restricted Ternary Words and Insets, arXiv:1905.04465 [math.CO], 2019.
M. O'Keeffe, Coordination sequences for lattices, Zeit. f. Krist., 210 (1995), 905-908.
M. O'Keeffe, Coordination sequences for lattices, Zeit. f. Krist., 210 (1995), 905-908. [Annotated scanned copy]
Carlos I. Perez-Sanchez, The Spectral Action on quivers, arXiv:2401.03705 [math.RT], 2024.
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
Reticular Chemistry Structure Resource (RCSR), The pcu tiling (or net)
Reticular Chemistry Structure Resource (RCSR), The tfs tiling (or net)
B. K. Teo and N. J. A. Sloane, Magic numbers in polygonal and polyhedral clusters, Inorgan. Chem. 24 (1985),4545-4558.
N. J. A. Sloane, Illustration of a(0)=1, a(1)=6, a(2)=18 (from Teo-Sloane 1985)
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (3,-3,1).

Partial sums give A001845.
Column 2 * 2 of array A188645.
Cf. A001844, A002522, A008586, A010014, A055580, A195322, A206399.
Cf. A000384, A014105, A000217, A008574, A008412, A035597.
The 28 uniform 3D tilings: cab: A299266, A299267; crs: A299268, A299269; fcu: A005901, A005902; fee: A299259, A299265; flu-e: A299272, A299273; fst: A299258, A299264; hal: A299274, A299275; hcp: A007899, A007202; hex: A005897, A005898; kag: A299256, A299262; lta: A008137, A299276; pcu: A005899, A001845; pcu-i: A299277, A299278; reo: A299279, A299280; reo-e:  A299281, A299282; rho: A008137, A299276; sod: A005893, A005894; sve: A299255, A299261; svh: A299283, A299284; svj: A299254, A299260; svk: A010001, A063489; tca: A299285, A299286; tcd: A299287, A299288; tfs: A005899, A001845; tsi: A299289, A299290; ttw: A299257, A299263; ubt: A299291, A299292; bnn: A007899, A007202. See the Proserpio link in A299266 for overview.
Row 3 of A035607, A266213, A343599.
Column 3 of A113413, A119800, A122542.

[4*n^2 + 2 : n in [0..50]]; // Wesley Ivan Hurt, Oct 26 2015

A005899:=n->4*n^2 + 2; seq(A005899(n), n=0..50); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Apr 15 2014

Join[{1},4Range[40]^2+2] (* or *) Join[{1},LinearRecurrence[{3,-3,1},{6,18,38},40]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 08 2011 *)

Vec(((1+x)/(1-x))^3 + O(x^100)) \\ Altug Alkan, Oct 26 2015

G.f.: ((1+x)/(1-x))^3. - Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
Binomial transform of [1, 5, 7, 1, -1, 1, -1, 1, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Nov 02 2007
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) - 3*a(n-2) + a(n-3), with a(0)=1, a(1)=6, a(2)=18, a(3)=38. - Harvey P. Dale, Nov 08 2011
Recurrence: n*a(n) = (n-2)*a(n-2) + 6*a(n-1), a(0)=1, a(1)=6. - Fung Lam, Apr 15 2014
For n > 0, a(n) = A001844(n-1) + A001844(n) = (n-1)^2 + 2n^2 + (n+1)^2. - Doug Bell, Aug 18 2015
For n > 0, a(n) = A010014(n) - A195322(n). - R. J. Cano, Sep 29 2015
For n > 0, a(n) = A000384(n+1) + A014105(n-1). - Bruce J. Nicholson, Oct 08 2017
a(n) = A008574(n) + A008574(n-1) + a(n-1). - Bruce J. Nicholson, Dec 18 2017
a(n) = 2*d*Hypergeometric2F1(1-d, 1-n, 2, 2) where d=3, n>0. - Shel Kaphan, Feb 16 2023
a(n) = A035597(n)*3/n, for n>0. - Shel Kaphan, Feb 26 2023
E.g.f.: exp(x)*(2 + 4*x + 4*x^2) - 1. - Stefano Spezia, Mar 08 2023
Sum_{n>=0} 1/a(n) = 3/4 + Pi *sqrt(2)*coth( Pi/sqrt 2)/8 = 1.31858... - R. J. Mathar, Apr 27 2024

A003499 a(n) = 6*a(n-1) - a(n-2), with a(0) = 2, a(1) = 6.

Original entry on oeis.org

2, 6, 34, 198, 1154, 6726, 39202, 228486, 1331714, 7761798, 45239074, 263672646, 1536796802, 8957108166, 52205852194, 304278004998, 1773462177794, 10336495061766, 60245508192802, 351136554095046, 2046573816377474, 11928306344169798, 69523264248641314

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Two times Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind evaluated at 3.
Also 2(a(2*n)-2) and a(2*n+1)-2 are perfect squares. - Mario Catalani (mario.catalani(AT)unito.it), Mar 31 2003
Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind evaluated at 3, then multiplied by 2. - Michael Somos, Apr 07 2003
Also gives solutions > 2 to the equation x^2 - 3 = floor(x*r*floor(x/r)) where r=sqrt(2). - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 14 2004
Output of Lu and Wu's formula for the number of perfect matchings of an m X n Klein bottle where m and n are both even specializes to this sequence for m=2. - Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Jul 04 2009
It appears that for prime P = 8*n +- 3, that a((P-1)/2) == -6 (mod P) and for all composites C = 8*n +- 3, there is at least one i < (C-1)/2 such that a(i) == -6 (mod P). Only a few of the primes P of the form 8*n +-3, e.g., 29, had such an i less than (P-1)/2. As for primes P = 8*n +- 1, it seems that the sum of the two adjacent terms, a((P-1)/2) and a((P+1)/2), is congruent to 8 (mod P). - Kenneth J Ramsey, Feb 14 2012 and Mar 05 2012
For n >= 1, a(n) is also the curvature of circles (rounded to the nearest integer) successively inscribed toward angle 90 degree of tangent lines, starting with a unit circle. The expansion factor is 5.828427... or 1/(3 - 2*sqrt(2)), which is also 3 + 2*sqrt(2) or A156035. See illustration in links. - Kival Ngaokrajang, Sep 04 2013
Except for the first term, positive values of x (or y) satisfying x^2 - 6*x*y + y^2 + 32 = 0. - Colin Barker, Feb 08 2014

A. H. Beiler, Recreations in the Theory of Numbers, Dover, NY, 1964, p. 198.
Jay Kappraff, Beyond Measure, A Guided Tour Through Nature, Myth and Number, World Scientific, 2002; pp. 480-481.
Thomas Koshy, Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers with Applications, 2001, Wiley, pp. 77-79.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..300
Seyed Hassan Alavi, Ashraf Daneshkhah, and Cheryl E. Praeger, Symmetries of biplanes, arXiv:2004.04535 [math.GR], 2020. See Lemma 7.9 p. 21.
Peter Bala, Some simple continued fraction expansions for an infinite product, Part 1
Hacène Belbachir, Soumeya Merwa Tebtoub, and László Németh, Ellipse Chains and Associated Sequences, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.8.5.
P. Bhadouria, D. Jhala, and B. Singh, Binomial Transforms of the k-Lucas Sequences and its Properties, The Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science (JMCS), Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 81-92; sequence K_3.
S. Falcon, Relationships between Some k-Fibonacci Sequences, Applied Mathematics, 2014, 5, 2226-2234.
Refik Keskin and Olcay Karaatli, Some New Properties of Balancing Numbers and Square Triangular Numbers, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 15 (2012), #12.1.4.
Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences
W. Lu and F. Y. Wu, Close-packed dimers on nonorientable surfaces, arXiv:cond-mat/0110035 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 2001-2002; Physics Letters A, 293(2002), 235-246. [From Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Jul 04 2009]
Kival Ngaokrajang, Illustration of initial terms
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]
Soumeya M. Tebtoub, Hacène Belbachir, and László Németh, Integer sequences and ellipse chains inside a hyperbola, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Algebras, Graphs and Ordered Sets (ALGOS 2020), hal-02918958 [math.cs], 17-18.
Index entries for recurrences a(n) = k*a(n - 1) +/- a(n - 2)
Index entries for two-way infinite sequences
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (6,-1).

A081555(n) = 1 + a(n).
Bisection of A002203.
First row of array A103999.
Row 1 * 2 of array A188645. A174501.

a:=[2,6];; for n in [3..25] do a[n]:=6*a[n-1]-a[n-2]; od; a; # G. C. Greubel, Jan 16 2020

I:=[2,6]; [n le 2 select I[n] else 6*Self(n-1) -Self(n-2): n in [1..25]]; // G. C. Greubel, Jan 16 2020

R:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), 25); Coefficients(R!( (2-6*x)/(1 - 6*x + x^2) )); // Marius A. Burtea, Jan 16 2020

A003499:=-2*(-1+3*z)/(1-6*z+z**2); # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation

a[0]=2; a[1]=6; a[n_]:= 6a[n-1] -a[n-2]; Table[a[n], {n,0,25}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 30 2004 *)
Table[Tr[MatrixPower[{{6, -1}, {1, 0}}, n]], {n, 25}] (* Artur Jasinski, Apr 22 2008 *)
LinearRecurrence[{6, -1}, {2, 6}, 25] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Feb 26 2012 *)
CoefficientList[Series[(2-6x)/(1-6x+x^2), {x,0,25}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 07 2013 *)
(* From Eric W. Weisstein, Apr 17 2018 *)
Table[(3-2Sqrt[2])^n + (3+2Sqrt[2])^n, {n,0,25}]//Expand
Table[(1+Sqrt[2])^(2n) + (1-Sqrt[2])^(2n), {n,0,25}]//FullSimplify
Join[{2}, Table[Fibonacci[4n, 2]/Fibonacci[2n, 2], {n, 25}]]
2*ChebyshevT[Range[0, 25], 3] (* End *)

PARI
```
a(n)=2*real((3+quadgen(32))^n)
```
PARI
```
a(n)=2*subst(poltchebi(abs(n)),x,3)
```

a(n)=if(n<0,a(-n),polsym(1-6*x+x^2,n)[n+1])

[lucas_number2(n,6,1) for n in range(37)] # Zerinvary Lajos, Jun 25 2008

G.f.: (2-6*x)/(1 - 6*x + x^2).
a(n) = (3+2*sqrt(2))^n + (3-2*sqrt(2))^n = 2*A001541(n).
For all sequence elements n, 2*n^2 - 8 is a perfect square. Limit_{n->infinity} a(n)/a(n-1) = 3 + 2*sqrt(2). - Gregory V. Richardson, Oct 06 2002
a(2*n)+2 is a perfect square, 2(a(2*n+1)+2) is a perfect square. a(n), a(n-1) and A077445(n), n > 0, satisfy the Diophantine equation x^2 + y^2 - 3*z^2 = -8. - Mario Catalani (mario.catalani(AT)unito.it), Mar 24 2003
a(n+1) is the trace of n-th power of matrix {{6, -1}, {1, 0}}. - Artur Jasinski, Apr 22 2008
a(n) = Product_{r=1..n} (4*sin^2((4*r-1)*Pi/(4*n)) + 4). [Lu/Wu] - Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Jul 04 2009
a(n) = (1 + sqrt(2))^(2*n) + (1 + sqrt(2))^(-2*n). - Gerson Washiski Barbosa, Sep 19 2010
For n > 0, a(n) = A001653(n) + A001653(n+1). - Charlie Marion, Dec 27 2011
For n > 0, a(n) = b(4*n)/b(2*n) where b(n) is the Pell sequence, A000129. - Kenneth J Ramsey, Feb 14 2012
From Peter Bala, Jan 06 2013: (Start)
Let F(x) = Product_{n >= 0} (1 + x^(4*n+1))/(1 + x^(4*n+3)). Let alpha = 3 - 2*sqrt(2). This sequence gives the simple continued fraction expansion of 1 + F(alpha) = 2.16585 37786 96882 80543 ... = 2 + 1/(6 + 1/(34 + 1/(198 + ...))). Cf. A174501.
Also F(-alpha) = 0.83251219269380007634 ... has the continued fraction representation 1 - 1/(6 - 1/(34 - 1/(198 - ...))) and the simple continued fraction expansion 1/(1 + 1/((6-2) + 1/(1 + 1/((34-2) + 1/(1 + 1/((198-2) + 1/(1 + ...))))))). Cf. A174501 and A003500.
F(alpha)*F(-alpha) has the simple continued fraction expansion 1/(1 + 1/((6^2-4) + 1/(1 + 1/((34^2-4) + 1/(1 + 1/((198^2-4) + 1/(1 + ...))))))).
(End)
G.f.: G(0), where G(k) = 1 + 1/(1 - x*(8*k-9)/( x*(8*k-1) - 3/G(k+1) )); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Aug 12 2013
Inverse binomial transform of A228568 [Bhadouria]. - R. J. Mathar, Nov 10 2013
From Peter Bala, Oct 16 2019: (Start)
4*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n) - 8/a(n)) = 1.
8*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n) + 4/a(n)) = 1.
Series acceleration formulas for sum of reciprocals:
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/a(n) = 1/4 - 8*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n)*(a(n)^2 - 8)) and
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = 1/8 + 4*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n)*(a(n)^2 + 4)).
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/a(n) = ( (theta_3(3-2*sqrt(2)))^2 - 1 )/4 and
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = ( 1 - (theta_3(2*sqrt(2)-3))^2 )/4, where theta_3(x) = 1 + 2*Sum_{n >= 1} x^(n^2) (see A000122). Cf. A153415 and A067902.
(End)
E.g.f.: 2*exp(3*x)*cosh(2*sqrt(2)*x). - Stefano Spezia, Oct 18 2019
a(2*n)+2 = a(n)^2. - Greg Dresden and Shraya Pal, Jun 29 2021

A023039 a(n) = 18*a(n-1) - a(n-2).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 9, 161, 2889, 51841, 930249, 16692641, 299537289, 5374978561, 96450076809, 1730726404001, 31056625195209, 557288527109761, 10000136862780489, 179445175002939041, 3220013013190122249, 57780789062419261441

Offset: 0

David W. Wilson

The primitive Heronian triangle 3*a(n) +- 2, 4*a(n) has the latter side cut into 2*a(n) +- 3 by the corresponding altitude and has area 10*a(n)*A060645(n). - Lekraj Beedassy, Jun 25 2002
Chebyshev polynomials T(n,x) evaluated at x=9.
{a(n)} gives all (unsigned, integer) solutions of Pell equation a(n)^2 - 80*b(n)^2 = +1 with b(n) = A049660(n), n >= 0.
{a(n)} gives all possible solutions for x in Pell equation x^2 - D*y^2 = 1 for D=5, D=20 and D=80. The corresponding values for y are A060645 (D=5), A207832 (D=20) and A049660 (D=80). - Herbert Kociemba, Jun 05 2022
Also gives solutions to the equation x^2 - 1 = floor(x*r*floor(x/r)) where r=sqrt(5). - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 14 2004
Appears to give all solutions > 1 to the equation: x^2 = ceiling(x*r*floor(x/r)) where r=sqrt(5). - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 24 2004
For all terms x of the sequence, 5*x^2 - 5 is a square, A004292(n)^2.
The a(n) are the x-values in the nonnegative integer solutions of x^2 - 5y^2 = 1, see A060645(n) for the corresponding y-values. - Sture Sjöstedt, Nov 29 2011
Rightmost digits alternate repeatedly: 1 and 9 in fact, a(2) = 18*9 - 1 == 1 (mod 10); a(3) = 18*1 - 9 == 9 (mod 10) therefore a(2n) == 1 (mod 10), a(2n+1) == 9 (mod 10). - Carmine Suriano, Oct 03 2013

			G.f. = 1 + 9*x + 161*x^2 + 2889*x^3 + 51841*x4 + 930249*x^5 + 16692641*x^6 + ...

Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..750 (terms 0..200 from Vincenzo Librandi)
Hacène Belbachir, Soumeya Merwa Tebtoub, and László Németh, Ellipse Chains and Associated Sequences, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.8.5.
Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences
Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (18,-1).

Cf. A001077, A115032.
Row 2 of array A188645.
Row 4 of A322790.

I:=[1, 9]; [n le 2 select I[n] else 18*Self(n-1)-Self(n-2): n in [1..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Feb 13 2012

a := n -> hypergeom([n, -n], [1/2], -4):
seq(simplify(a(n)), n=0..16); # Peter Luschny, Jul 26 2020

LinearRecurrence[{18, -1}, {1, 9}, 50] (* Sture Sjöstedt, Nov 29 2011 *)
CoefficientList[Series[(1-9*x)/(1-18*x+x^2), {x, 0, 50}], x] (* G. C. Greubel, Dec 19 2017 *)

{a(n) = fibonacci(6*n) / 2 + fibonacci(6*n - 1)}; /* Michael Somos, Aug 11 2009 */

x='x+O('x^30); Vec((1-9*x)/(1-18*x+x^2)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Dec 19 2017

a(n) ~ (1/2)*(sqrt(5) + 2)^(2*n). - Joe Keane (jgk(AT)jgk.org), May 15 2002
Limit_{n->infinity} a(n)/a(n-1) = phi^6 = 9 + 4*sqrt(5). - Gregory V. Richardson, Oct 13 2002
a(n) = T(n, 9) = (S(n, 18) - S(n-2, 18))/2, with S(n, x) := U(n, x/2) and T(n, x), resp. U(n, x), are Chebyshev's polynomials of the first, resp. second, kind. See A053120 and A049310. S(-2, x) := -1, S(-1, x) := 0, S(n, 18)=A049660(n+1).
a(n) = sqrt(80*A049660(n)^2 + 1) (cf. Richardson comment).
a(n) = ((9 + 4*sqrt(5))^n + (9 - 4*sqrt(5))^n)/2.
G.f.: (1 - 9*x)/(1 - 18*x + x^2).
a(n) = cosh(2*n*arcsinh(2)). - Herbert Kociemba, Apr 24 2008
a(n) = A001077(2*n). - Michael Somos, Aug 11 2009
From Johannes W. Meijer, Jul 01 2010: (Start)
a(n) = 2*A167808(6*n+1) - A167808(6*n+3).
Limit_{k->infinity} a(n+k)/a(k) = a(n) + A060645(n)*sqrt(5).
Limit_{n->infinity} a(n)/A060645(n) = sqrt(5).
(End)
a(n) = (1/2)*A087215(n) = (1/2)*(sqrt(5) + 2)^(2*n) + (1/2)*(sqrt(5) - 2)^(2*n).
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/( a(n) - 5/a(n) ) = 1/8. Compare with A005248, A002878 and A075796. - Peter Bala, Nov 29 2013
a(n) = 2*A115032(n-1) - 1 = S(n, 18) - 9*S(n-1, 18), with A115032(-1) = 1, and see the above formula with S(n, 18) using its recurrence. - Wolfdieter Lang, Aug 22 2014
a(n) = A128052(3n). - A.H.M. Smeets, Oct 02 2017
a(n) = A049660(n+1) - 9*A049660(n). - R. J. Mathar, May 24 2018
a(n) = hypergeom([n, -n], [1/2], -4). - Peter Luschny, Jul 26 2020
a(n) = L(6*n)/2 for L(n) the Lucas sequence A000032(n). - Greg Dresden, Dec 07 2021
a(n) = cosh(6*n*arccsch(2)). - Peter Luschny, May 25 2022

Chebyshev and Pell comments from Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 08 2002

Sture Sjöstedt's comment corrected and reformulated by Wolfdieter Lang, Aug 24 2014

A078986 Chebyshev T(n,19) polynomial.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 19, 721, 27379, 1039681, 39480499, 1499219281, 56930852179, 2161873163521, 82094249361619, 3117419602578001, 118379850648602419, 4495316905044313921, 170703662541035326579, 6482243859654298096081, 246154563004322292324499, 9347391150304592810234881, 354954709148570204496600979, 13478931556495363178060602321

Offset: 0

Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 10 2003

a(n+1)^2 - 10*(6*A078987(n))^2 = 1, n >= 0 (Pell equation +1, see A033313 and A033317).
Also gives solutions to the equation x^2 - 1 = floor(x*r*floor(x/r)) where r=sqrt(10). - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 14 2004
Numbers n such that 10*(n^2 - 1) is a square. - Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 08 2010

Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..632
Hacène Belbachir, Soumeya Merwa Tebtoub, and László Németh, Ellipse Chains and Associated Sequences, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.8.5.
Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences
Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (38,-1).

Row 3 of array A188645.

LinearRecurrence[{38, -1},{1, 19},15] (* Ray Chandler, Aug 11 2015 *)

a(n) = polchebyshev(n, 1, 19); \\ Michel Marcus, Jan 14 2018

[lucas_number2(n,38,1)/2 for n in range(0, 16)] # Zerinvary Lajos, Nov 07 2009

a(n) = 38*a(n-1) - a(n-2), a(-1) := 19, a(0)=1.
G.f.: (1-19*x)/(1-38*x+x^2).
a(n) = T(n, 19) = (S(n, 38)-S(n-2, 38))/2 = S(n, 38)-19*S(n-1, 38) with T(n, x), resp. S(n, x), Chebyshev's polynomials of the first, resp. second, kind. See A053120 and A049310. S(n, 38) = A078987(n).
a(n) = (ap^n + am^n)/2 with ap := 19+6*sqrt(10) and am := 19-6*sqrt(10).
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} ((-1)^k)*(n/(2*(n-k)))*binomial(n-k, k)*(2*19)^(n-2*k), n >= 1.
a(n) = cosh(2*arcsinh(3)*n). - Herbert Kociemba, Apr 24 2008

More terms from Indranil Ghosh, Feb 04 2017

A188647 Array read by antidiagonals of a(n) = a(n-1)*k-((k-1)/(k^n)) where a(0)=1 and k=(sqrt(x^2+1)+x)^2 for integers x>=1.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 5, 1, 29, 17, 1, 169, 305, 37, 1, 985, 5473, 1405, 65, 1, 5741, 98209, 53353, 4289, 101, 1, 33461, 1762289, 2026009, 283009, 10301, 145, 1, 195025, 31622993, 76934989, 18674305, 1050601, 21169, 197, 1, 1136689, 567451585, 2921503573, 1232221121, 107151001, 3090529, 39005, 257, 1

Offset: 0

Charles L. Hohn, Apr 06 2011

Conjecture: Given function f(x, y)=(sqrt(x^2+y)+x)^2; constant k=f(x, y); and initial term a(0)=1; then for all integers x>=1 and y=[+-]1, k may be irrational, but sequence a(n)=a(n-1)*k-((k-1)/(k^n)) always produces integer sequences; y=1 results shown here; y=-1 results are A188646.

Also square array A(n,k), n >= 1, k >= 0, read by antidiagonals, where A(n,k) is (1/sqrt(n^2+1)) * T_{2*k+1}(sqrt(n^2+1)), with T the Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind. - Seiichi Manyama, Jan 02 2019

			Square array begins:
     | 0    1       2          3             4
-----+---------------------------------------------
   1 | 1,   5,     29,       169,          985, ...
   2 | 1,  17,    305,      5473,        98209, ...
   3 | 1,  37,   1405,     53353,      2026009, ...
   4 | 1,  65,   4289,    283009,     18674305, ...
   5 | 1, 101,  10301,   1050601,    107151001, ...
   6 | 1, 145,  21169,   3090529,    451196065, ...
   7 | 1, 197,  39005,   7722793,   1529074009, ...
   8 | 1, 257,  66305,  17106433,   4413393409, ...
   9 | 1, 325, 105949,  34539049,  11259624025, ...
  10 | 1, 401, 161201,  64802401,  26050404001, ...
  11 | 1, 485, 235709, 114554089,  55673051545, ...
  12 | 1, 577, 333505, 192765313, 111418017409, ...
  13 | 1, 677, 459005, 311204713, 210996336409, ...
  14 | 1, 785, 617009, 484968289, 381184458145, ...
  15 | 1, 901, 812701, 733055401, 661215159001, ...
  ...

Row 1 is A001653, row 2 is A007805, row 3 is A097315, row 4 is A078988, row 5 is A097727, row 6 is A097730, row 7 is A097733, row 8 is A097736, row 9 is A097739, row 10 is A097742, row 11 is A097767, row 12 is A097770, row 13 is A097773.
Column 1 is A053755.
A(n,n) gives A323012.
Cf. A188645, A188646 (f(x, y) as above with y=-1).

A(n,k) = 2 * A188645(n,k) - A(n,k-1).

A(n,k) = Sum_{j=0..k} binomial(2*k+1,2*j)*(n^2+1)^(k-j)*n^(2*j). - Seiichi Manyama, Jan 02 2019

Edited and extended by Seiichi Manyama, Jan 02 2019

A087215 Lucas(6n): a(n) = 18a(n-1) - a(n-2), starting with a(0) = 2 and a(1) = 18.

Original entry on oeis.org

2, 18, 322, 5778, 103682, 1860498, 33385282, 599074578, 10749957122, 192900153618, 3461452808002, 62113250390418, 1114577054219522, 20000273725560978, 358890350005878082, 6440026026380244498, 115561578124838522882, 2073668380220713167378

Offset: 0

Nikolay V. Kosinov (kosinov(AT)unitron.com.ua), Oct 19 2003

a(n+1)/a(n) converges to 9 + sqrt(80) = 17.9442719... a(0)/a(1) = 2/18; a(1)/a(2) = 18/322; a(2)/a(3) = 322/5778; a(3)/a(4) = 5778/103682; etc.
Lim_{n -> oo} a(n)/a(n+1) = 0.05572809000084... = 1/(9 + sqrt(80)) = 9 - sqrt(80).
From Peter Bala, Oct 13 2019: (Start)
Let F(x) = Product_{n >= 0} (1 + x^(4*n+1))/(1 + x^(4*n+3)). Let Phi = (1/2)*(sqrt(5) - 1). This sequence gives the partial denominators in the simple continued fraction expansion of the number F(Phi^6) = 1.0555459720... = 1 + 1/(18 + 1/(322 + 1/(5778 + ...))).
Also F(-Phi^6) = 0.9444348576... has the continued fraction representation 1 - 1/(18 - 1/(322 - 1/(5788 - ...))) and the simple continued fraction expansion 1/(1 + 1/((18 - 2) + 1/(1 + 1/((322 - 2) + 1/(1 + 1/((5788 - 2) + 1/(1 + ...))))))).
F(Phi^6)*F(-Phi^6) = 0.9968944099... has the simple continued fraction expansion 1/(1 + 1/((18^2 - 4) + 1/(1 + 1/((322^2 - 4) + 1/(1 + 1/((5788^2 - 4) + 1/(1 + ...))))))).
1/2 + (1/2)*F(Phi^6)/F(-Phi^6) = 1.0588241282... has the simple continued fraction expansion 1 + 1/((18 - 2) + 1/(1 + 1/((5778 - 2) + 1/(1 + 1/(1860498 - 2) + 1/(1 + ...))))). (End)

			a(4) = 103682 = 18*a(3) - a(2) = 18*5778 - 322 = (9 + sqrt(80))^4 + (9 - sqrt(80))^4 = 103681.99999035512... + 0.00000964487... = 103682.

J. M. Borwein and P. B. Borwein, Pi and the AGM, Wiley, 1987, p. 91.
R. P. Stanley. Enumerative combinatorics. Vol. 2, volume 62 of Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.

Colin Barker, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..750
Hacène Belbachir, Soumeya Merwa Tebtoub, and László Németh, Ellipse Chains and Associated Sequences, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.8.5.
P. Bhadouria, D. Jhala, and B. Singh, Binomial Transforms of the k-Lucas Sequences and its Properties, The Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science (JMCS), Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 81-92; sequence R_4.
Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences
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 (18,-1).

Cf. A074919.
Row 2 * 2 of array A188645.
Cf. Lucas(k*n): A000032 (k = 1), A005248 (k = 2), A014448 (k = 3), A056854 (k = 4), A001946 (k = 5), A087281 (k = 7), A087265 (k = 8), A087287 (k = 9), A065705 (k = 10), A089772 (k = 11), A089775 (k = 12).

[ Lucas(6*n) : n in [0..100]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Apr 14 2011

a[0] = 2; a[1] = 18; a[n_] := 18a[n - 1] - a[n - 2]; Table[ a[n], {n, 0, 15}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 30 2004 *)
Table[LucasL[6n], {n, 0, 18}]  (* or *) CoefficientList[Series[2*(1 - 9*x)/(1 - 18*x + x^2), {x, 0, 17}], x] (* Indranil Ghosh, Mar 15 2017 *)

Vec(2*(1-9*x)/(1-18*x+x^2) + O(x^20)) \\ Colin Barker, Jan 24 2016

a(n) = if(n<2, 17^n + 1, 18*a(n - 1) - a(n - 2));
for(n=0, 17, print1(a(n),", ")) \\ Indranil Ghosh, Mar 15 2017

a(n) = A000032(6*n).
a(n) = 18*a(n-1) - a(n-2), starting with a(0) = 2 and a(1) = 18.
a(n) = (9 + sqrt(80))^n + (9 - sqrt(80))^n.
G.f.: 2*(1-9*x)/(1-18*x+x^2). - Philippe Deléham, Nov 17 2008
a(n) = 2*A023039(n). - R. J. Mathar, Oct 22 2010
From Peter Bala, Oct 13 2019: (Start)
a(n) = F(6*n+6)/F(6) - F(6*n-6)/F(6) = A049660(n+1) - A049660(n-1).
a(n) = trace(M^n), where M is the 2 X 2 matrix [0, 1; 1, 1]^6 = [5, 8; 8, 13].
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).
16*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n) - 20/a(n)) = 1: (20 = Lucas(6) + 2 and 16 = Lucas(6) - 2)
20*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n) + 16/a(n)) = 1.
Series acceleration formulas for sum of reciprocals:
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/a(n) = 1/16 - 20*Sum_{n >= 1} 1/(a(n)*(a(n)^2 - 20)).
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = 1/20 + 16*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(a(n)*(a(n)^2 + 16)).
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/a(n) = ( (theta_3(9-4*sqrt(5)))^2 - 1 )/4 and
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = ( 1 - (theta_3(4*sqrt(5)-9))^2 )/4,
where theta_3(x) = 1 + 2*Sum_{n >= 1} x^(n^2) (see A000122). Cf. A153415 and A003499.
x*exp(Sum_{n >= 1} a(n)*x^/n) = x + 18*x^2 + 323*x^3 + ... is the o.g.f. for A049660. (End)
E.g.f.: 2*exp(9*x)*cosh(4*sqrt(5)*x). - Stefano Spezia, Oct 18 2019
a(n) = L(2n-1)^2 * F(2n+1) + L(2n+1)^2 * F(2n-1), where F(n) = A000045(n) and L(n) = A000032(n). - Diego Rattaggi, Nov 12 2020
From  Peter Bala, Apr 16 2025: (Start)
a(n) = Lucas(2*n)^3 - 3*Lucas(2*n) = 2*T(3, (1/2)*Lucas(2*n)), where T(k, x) denotes the k-th Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind; more generally, for k >= 0, Lucas(2*k*n) = 2*T(k, Lucas(2*n)/2).
Sum_{n >= 1} 1/a(n) = (1/4) * (theta_3(9 - sqrt(80))^2 - 1) and
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = (1/4) * (1 - theta_3(sqrt(80) - 9)^2), where theta_3(x) = 1 + 2*Sum_{n >= 1} x^(n^2) (see A000122). See Borwein and Borwein, Proposition 3.5 (i), p. 91. Cf. A153415 and A003499. (End)

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