A246039 Number of odd terms in f^n, where f = (1/x+1+x)*(1/y+y)+1.

1, 7, 7, 29, 7, 49, 29, 103, 7, 49, 49, 203, 29, 203, 103, 373, 7, 49, 49, 203, 49, 343, 203, 721, 29, 203, 203, 841, 103, 721, 373, 1407, 7, 49, 49, 203, 49, 343, 203, 721, 49, 343, 343, 1421, 203, 1421, 721, 2611, 29, 203, 203, 841, 203, 1421, 841, 2987, 103, 721, 721, 2987, 373, 2611, 1407, 5277

Offset: 0

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 21 2014

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

This is the number of ON cells in a certain 2-D CA in which the neighborhood of a cell is defined by f, and in which a cell is ON iff there was an odd number of ON cells in the neighborhood at the previous generation.

This is the odd-rule cellular automaton defined by OddRule 575 (see Ekhad-Sloane-Zeilberger "Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid" link).

Run Length Transform of A246038.

The Run Length Transform of a sequence {S(n), n>=0} is defined to be the sequence {T(n), n>=0} given by T(n) = Product_i S(i), where i runs through the lengths of runs of 1's in the binary expansion of n. E.g. 19 is 10011 in binary, which has two runs of 1's, of lengths 1 and 2. So T(19) = S(1)*S(2). T(0)=1 (the empty product).

Examples

			Here is the neighborhood:
[X, X, X]
[0, X, 0]
[X, X, X]
which contains a(1) = 7 ON cells.
		

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..8192
• Shalosh B. Ekhad, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, A Meta-Algorithm for Creating Fast Algorithms for Counting ON Cells in Odd-Rule Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01796, 2015; see also the Accompanying Maple Package.
• Shalosh B. Ekhad, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid, arXiv:1503.04249, 2015.
• N. J. A. Sloane, On the No. of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, Video of talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Feb. 05 2015: Part 1, Part 2
• N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168, 2015
• Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata

Crossrefs

Other CA's that use the same rule but with different cell neighborhoods: A160239, A102376, A071053, A072272, A001316, A246034, A246035. A246037.

Cf. A246038.

Programs

Maple

C:=f->subs({x=1, y=1}, f);
# Find number of ON cells in CA for generations 0 thru M defined by rule
# that cell is ON iff number of ON cells in nbd at time n-1 was odd
# where nbd is defined by a polynomial or Laurent series f(x, y).
OddCA:=proc(f, M) global C; local n, a, i, f2, p;
f2:=simplify(expand(f)) mod 2;
a:=[]; p:=1;
for n from 0 to M do a:=[op(a), C(p)]; p:=expand(p*f2) mod 2; od:
lprint([seq(a[i], i=1..nops(a))]);
end;
f:=(1/x+1+x)*(1/y+y)+1 mod 2;
OddCA(f, 70);

Mathematica

(* f = A246038 *) f[0]=1; f[1]=7; f[2]=29; f[3]=103; f[4]=373; f[n_] := f[n] = 8 f[n-4] + 8 f[n-3] + 3 f[n-1]; Table[Times @@ (f[Length[#]]&) /@ Select[Split[IntegerDigits[n, 2]], #[[1]] == 1&], {n, 0, 63}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 12 2017 *)