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A030267 Compose the natural numbers with themselves, A(x) = B(B(x)) where B(x) = x/(1-x)^2 is the generating function for natural numbers.

1, 4, 14, 46, 145, 444, 1331, 3926, 11434, 32960, 94211, 267384, 754309, 2116936, 5914310, 16458034, 45638101, 126159156, 347769719, 956238170, 2623278946, 7181512964, 19622668679, 53522804976, 145753273225, 396323283724, 1076167858046, 2918447861686

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Christian G. Bower

Sum of pyramid weights of all nondecreasing Dyck paths of semilength n. (A pyramid in a Dyck word (path) is a factor of the form U^h D^h, where U=(1,1), D=(1,-1) and h is the height of the pyramid. A pyramid in a Dyck word w is maximal if, as a factor in w, it is not immediately preceded by a u and immediately followed by a d. The pyramid weight of a Dyck path (word) is the sum of the heights of its maximal pyramids.) Example: a(4) = 46. Indeed, there are 14 Dyck paths of semilength 4. One of them, namely UUDUDDUD is not nondecreasing because the valleys are at heights 1 and 0. The other 13, with the maximal pyramids shown between parentheses, are: (UD)(UD)(UD)(UD), (UD)(UD)(UUDD), (UD)(UUDD)(UD), (UD)U(UD)(UD)D, (UD)(UUUDDD), (UUDD)(UD)(UD), (UUDD)(UUDD), (UUUDDD)(UD), U(UD)(UD)(UD)D, U(UD)(UUDD)D, U(UUDD)(UD)D, UU(UD)(UD)DD and (UUUUDDDD). The pyramid weights of these paths are 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, and 4, respectively. Their sum is 46. a(n) = Sum_{k = 1..n} k*A121462(n, k). - Emeric Deutsch, Jul 31 2006
Number of 1s in all compositions of n, where compositions are understood with two different kinds of 1s, say 1 and 1' (n >= 1). Example: a(2) = 4 because the compositions of 2 are 11, 11', 1'1, 1'1', 2, having a total of 2 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 = 4 1s. Also number of k's in all compositions of n + k (k = 2, 3, ...). - Emeric Deutsch, Jul 21 2008
From Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 24 2019: (Start)
If c = (c(m): m >= 1) is the input sequence and b_k = (b_k(n): n >= 1) is the output sequence under the AIK[k] = INVERT[k] transform (see Bower's web link below), then the bivariate g.f. of the list of sequences (b_k: k >= 1) = ((b_k(n): n >= 1): k >= 1) is Sum_{n, k >= 1} b_k(n)*x^n*y^k = y*C(x)/(1 - y*C(x)), where C(x) = Sum_{m >= 1} c(m)*x^m is the g.f. of the input sequence.
Here, b_k(n) is the number of all (linear) compositions of n with k parts where a part of size m is colored with one of c(m) colors. Thus, Sum_{k = 1..n} k*b_k(n) is the total number of parts in all compositions of n.
If we differentiate the bivariate g.f. function above, i.e., Sum_{n, k >= 1} b_k(n)*x^n*y^k, with respect to y and set y = 1, we get the g.f. of the sequence (Sum_{k = 1..n} k*b_k(n): n >= 1). It is C(x)/(1 - C(x))^2.
When c(m) = m for all m >= 1, we have m-color compositions of n that were first studied by Agarwal (2000). The cyclic version of these m-color compositions were studied by Gibson (2017) and Gibson et al. (2018).
When c(m) = m for each m >= 1, we have C(x) = x/(1 - x)^2, and so C(x)/(1 - C(x))^2 = x * (1 - x)^2/(1 - 3*x + x^2)^2, which is the g.f. of the current sequence.
Hence, a(n) is the total number of parts in all m-color compositions of n (in the sense of Agarwal (2000)).
(End)
Series reversal gives A153294 starting from index 1, with alternating signs: 1, -4, 18, -86, 427, -2180, ... - Vladimir Reshetnikov, Aug 03 2019

			From _Petros Hadjicostas_, Jun 24 2019: (Start)
Recall that with m-color compositions, a part of size m may be colored with one of m colors.
We have a(1) = 1 because we only have one colored composition, namely 1_1, that has only 1 part.
We have a(2) = 4 because we have the following colored compositions of n = 2: 2_1, 2_2, 1_1 + 1_1; hence, a(2) = 1 + 1 + 2 = 4.
We have a(3) = 14 because we have the following colored compositions of n = 3: 3_1, 3_2, 3_3, 1_1 + 2_1, 1_1 + 2_2, 2_1 + 1_1, 2_2 + 1_1, 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1; hence, a(3) = 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 = 14.
We have a(14) = 46 because we have the following colored compositions of n = 4:
(i) 4_1, 4_2, 4_3, 4_4; with a total of 4 parts.
(ii) 1_1 + 3_1, 1_1 + 3_2, 1_1 + 3_3, 3_1 + 1_1, 3_2 + 1_1, 3_3 + 1_1, 2_1 + 2_1, 2_1 + 2_2, 2_2 + 2_1, 2_2 + 2_2; with a total of 2 x 10 = 20 parts.
(iii) 1_1 + 1_1 + 2_1, 1_1 + 1_1 + 2_2, 1_1 + 2_1 + 1_1, 1_1 + 2_2 + 1_1, 2_1 + 1_1 + 1_1, 2_2 + 1_1 + 1_1; with a total of 3 x 6 = 18 parts.
(iv) 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1; with a total of 4 parts.
Hence, a(4) = 4 + 20 + 18 + 4 = 46.
(End)

R. P. Grimaldi, Compositions and the alternate Fibonacci numbers, Congressus Numerantium, 186, 2007, 81-96.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..200
A. K. Agarwal, n-colour compositions, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 31 (11) (2000), 1421-1427.
E. Barcucci, A. Del Lungo, S. Fezzi, and R. Pinzani, Nondecreasing Dyck paths and q-Fibonacci numbers, Discrete Math., 170 (1997), 211-217.
C. G. Bower, Transforms (2).
R. X. F. Chen and L. W. Shapiro, On sequences G(n) satisfying G(n)=(d+2)G(n-1)-G(n-2), J. Integer Seq. 10 (2007), Article #07.8.1; see Proposition 17.
Éva Czabarka, Rigoberto Flórez, and Leandro Junes, Some Enumerations on Non-Decreasing Dyck Paths, Electron. J. Combin., 22(1) (2015), #P1.3.
Éva Czabarka, Rigoberto Flórez, and Leandro Junes, A Discrete Convolution on the Generalized Hosoya Triangle, J. Integer Seq., 18 (2015), Article #15.1.6.
Éva Czabarka, Rigoberto Flórez, Leandro Junes, and José L. Ramírez, Enumerations of peaks and valleys on non-decreasing Dyck paths, Discrete Math. 341 (10) (2018), 2789-2807.
A. Denise and R. Simion, Two combinatorial statistics on Dyck paths, Discrete Math., 137 (1995), 155-176.
Rigoberto Flórez, Leandro Junes, Luisa M. Montoya, and José L. Ramírez, Counting Subwords in Non-Decreasing Dyck Paths, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 28 (2025), Article 25.1.6. See pp. 6, 14-15, 17, 19.
Meghann Moriah Gibson, Combinatorics of compositions, Master of Science, Georgia Southern University, 2017.
Meghann Moriah Gibson, Daniel Gray, and Hua Wang, Combinatorics of n-color compositions, Discrete Mathematics 341 (2018), 3209-3226.
Milan Janjic, Hessenberg Matrices and Integer Sequences, J. Integer Seq. 13 (2010), Article #10.7.8.
N. J. A. Sloane, Transforms.
Index entries for two-way infinite sequences
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (6,-11,6,-1).

Partial sums of A038731. First differences of A001870.

Cf. A001629 (right-shifted inverse Binomial Transform), A023610 (inverse Binomial Transform of left-shifted sequence), A030279, A045623, A088305, A121462, A153294, A279282, A307415, A308723.

with(combinat): L[0]:=2: L[1]:=1: for n from 2 to 60 do L[n]:=L[n-1] +L[n-2] end do: seq(2*fibonacci(2*n)*1/5+(1/5)*n*L[2*n],n=1..30); # Emeric Deutsch, Jul 21 2008

Table[Sum[k Binomial[n+k-1,2k-1],{k,n}],{n,30}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[ {6,-11,6,-1},{1,4,14,46},30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 01 2011 *)

a(n)=(2*n*fibonacci(2*n+1)+(2-n)*fibonacci(2*n))/5

a(n) = -a(-n) = (2n * F(2n+1) + (2 - n) * F(2n))/5 with F(n) = A000045(n) (Fibonacci numbers).
G.f.: x * (1 - x)^2/(1 - 3*x + x^2)^2.
a(n) = Sum_{k = 1..n} k*C(n + k - 1, 2*k - 1).
a(n) = (2/5)*F(2*n) + (1/5)*n*L(2*n), where F(k) are the Fibonacci numbers (F(0)=0, F(1)=1) and L(k) are the Lucas numbers (L(0) = 2, L(1) = 1). - Emeric Deutsch, Jul 21 2008
a(0) = 1, a(1) = 4, a(2) = 14, a(3) = 46, a(n) = 6*a(n-1) - 11*a(n-2) + 6*a(n-3) - a(n-4). - Harvey P. Dale, Aug 01 2011
a(n) = ((3 - sqrt(5))^n*(5*n - 2*sqrt(5)) + (3 + sqrt(5))^n*(5*n + 2*sqrt(5)))/ (25*2^n). - Peter Luschny, Mar 07 2022
E.g.f.: exp(3*x/2)*(15*x*cosh(sqrt(5)*x/2) + sqrt(5)*(4 + 5*x)*sinh(sqrt(5)*x/2))/25. - Stefano Spezia, Mar 04 2025

Name clarified using a comment of the author by Peter Luschny, Aug 03 2019

A032198 "CIK" (necklace, indistinct, unlabeled) transform of 1,2,3,4,...

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 3, 6, 13, 25, 58, 121, 283, 646, 1527, 3601, 8678, 20881, 50823, 124054, 304573, 750121, 1855098, 4600201, 11442085, 28527446, 71292603, 178526881, 447919418, 1125750145, 2833906683, 7144450566, 18036423973

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Christian G. Bower

nonn

			From _Petros Hadjicostas_, Jan 07 2018: (Start)
We give some examples to illustrate the theory of C. G. Bower about transforms given in the weblink above. We assume we have boxes of different sizes and colors that we place on a circle to form a necklace. Two boxes of the same size and same color are considered identical (indistinct and unlabeled). We do, however, change the roles of the sequences (a(n): n>=1) and (b(n): n>=1) that appear in the weblink above. We assume (a(n): n>=1) = CIK((b(n): n>=1)).
Since b(1) = 1, b(2) = 2, b(3) = 3, etc., a box that can hold 1 ball only can be of 1 color only, a box that can hold 2 balls only can be one of 2 colors only, a box that can hold 3 balls can be one of 3 colors, and so on.
To prove that a(3) = 6, we consider three cases. In the first case, we have a single box that can hold 3 balls, and thus we have 3 possibilities for the 3 colors the box can be. In the second case, we have a box that can hold 2 balls and a box that can hold 1 ball. Here, we have 2 x 1 = 2 possibilities. In the third case, we have 3 identical boxes, each of which can hold 1 ball. This gives rise to 1 possibility. Hence, a(3) = 3 + 2 + 1 = 6.
To prove that a(4) = 13, we consider 5 cases: a box with 4 balls (4 possibilities), one box with 3 balls and one box with 1 ball (3 possibilities), two identical boxes each with 2 balls (3 possibilities), one box with 2 balls and two identical boxes each with 1 ball (2 possibilities), and four identical boxes each with 1 ball (1 possibility). Thus, a(4) = 4 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 13.
(End)

Vaclav Kotesovec, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
A. K. Agarwal, n-colour compositions, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 31 (11) (2000), 1421-1427.
C. G. Bower, Transforms (2).
Joshua P. Bowman, Compositions with an Odd Number of Parts, and Other Congruences, J. Int. Seq (2024) Vol. 27, Art. 24.3.6. See p. 31.
P. Flajolet and M. Soria, The Cycle Construction, SIAM J. Discr. Math., vol. 4 (1), 1991, pp. 58-60.
P. Flajolet and M. Soria, The Cycle Construction. [pdf file]
Meghann Moriah Gibson, Combinatorics of compositions, Master of Science, Georgia Southern University, 2017.
Meghann Moriah Gibson, Daniel Gray, and Hua Wang, Combinatorics of n-color compositions, Discrete Mathematics 341 (2018), 3209-3226.
Index entries for sequences related to necklaces

Cf. A000032, A001906, A004146, A005248, A032170, A032287, A088305, A308723, A308747.

Equals A005594(n) - 1.

nmax = 30;
f[x_] = Sum[n*x^n, {n, 1, nmax}];
gf = Sum[(EulerPhi[n]/n)*Log[1/(1 - f[x^n])] + O[x]^nmax, {n, 1, nmax}]/x;
CoefficientList[gf, x] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 29 2018, after Joerg Arndt *)

N = 66;  x = 'x + O('x^N);
f(x)=sum(n=1, N, n*x^n );
gf = sum(n=1, N, eulerphi(n)/n*log(1/(1-f(x^n)))  );
v = Vec(gf)
/* Joerg Arndt, Jan 21 2013 */

a(n) = 1/n*Sum_{d divides n} phi(n/d)*A004146(d). - Vladeta Jovovic, Feb 15 2003
From Petros Hadjicostas, Jan 07 2018: (Start)
a(n) = -2 + (1/n)*Sum_{d|n} phi(n/d)*A005248(d) = -2 + (1/n)*Sum_{d|n} phi(n/d)*L(2*d), where L(n) = A000032(n) is the usual Lucas sequence.
G.f.: -Sum_{n >= 1} (phi(n)/n)*log(1 - B(x^n)), where B(x) = x + 2*x^2 + 3*x^3 + 4*x^4 + ... = x/(1-x)^2.
G.f.: -2*x/(1 - x) - Sum_{n>=1} (phi(n)/n)*log(1 - 3*x^n + x^(2*n)).
(End)
From Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 19 2019: (Start)
According to Gibson et al. (2018), a(n) is the number of m-color cyclic compositions of n where each part of size m has m possible colors. This is nothing else than the CIK transform of the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
Using the theory of Flajolet and Soria (1991), Gibson et al. (2018, Eq. (1.1)) proved that the g.f. of a(n) is Sum_{s >= 1} (phi(s)/s) * log((1 - x^s)^2/(1 - 3*x^s + x^(2*s))), which is exactly the same g.f. as the ones above.
Gibson et al. (2018, p. 3210) also proved that a(n) ~ (2/(3-sqrt(5)))^n/n for large n. See also Chapter 3 in Gibson (2017).
(End)

A307415 Total number of parts in all symmetric m-color cyclic compositions of n (that is, the total number of parts in all achiral cyclic compositions of n where a part with size m can be colored with one of m colors).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 4, 10, 26, 53, 116, 215, 434, 766, 1480, 2539, 4776, 8045, 14864, 24722, 45094, 74305, 134236, 219619, 393790, 640646, 1141844, 1849175, 3279696, 5291353, 9346396, 15031450, 26458994, 42438221, 74479940, 119182319, 208629386, 333170830, 581904544, 927617347, 1616924664

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Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 24 2019

nonn

Cyclic compositions of a positive integer n are equivalence classes of ordered partitions of n such that two such partitions are equivalent if one can be obtained from the other by rotation. These were first studied by Sommerville (1909).
Symmetric cyclic compositions or circular palindromes or achiral cyclic compositions are those cyclic compositions that have at least one axis of symmetry. They were also studied by Sommerville (1909, pp. 301-304).
Let c = (c(m): m >= 1) be the input sequence and let b_k = (b_k(n): n >= 1) be the output sequence under Bower's CPAL[k] (circular palindrome with k boxes) transform of c; that is, b_k(n) = (CPAC[k] c)n for n >= 1. Hence, b_k(n) is the number of symmetric cyclic compositions of n with k parts, where a part of size m can be colored with one of c(m) colors. If C(x) = Sum{m >= 1} c(m)*x^m is the g.f. of the input sequence c, then the bivariate g.f. of the list of sequences (b_k: k >= 1) = ((CPAL[k] c): k >= 1) = ((b_k(n): n >= 1): k >= 1) is Sum_{n,k >= 1} b_k(n)*x^n*y^k = (1 + y*C(x))^2/(2 * (1 - y^2*C(x^2))) - (1/2).
Here, Sum_{k=1..n} k*b_k(n) is the total number of parts in all symmetric colored cyclic compositions of n (where the coloring of parts is done according to the input sequence c). To find the g.f. of the sequence (Sum_{k=1..n} k*b_k(n): n >= 1), we differentiate the above bivariate g.f. (i.e., Sum_{n,k >= 1} b_k(n)*x^n*y^k) w.r.t. y and set y = 1. We get (1 + C(x)) * (C(x) + C(x^2))/(1 - C(x^2))^2.
For the current sequence, the input sequence is c(m) = m for m >= 1, and we are dealing with the so-called "m-color" compositions. m-color linear compositions were studied by Agarwal (2000), whereas m-color cyclic compositions were studied by Gibson (2017) and Gibson et al. (2018).
Thus, for the current sequence, a(n) is the total number of parts in all symmetric (achiral) m-color cyclic compositions of n (where a part of size m may be colored with one of m colors). Since C(x) = x/(1 - x)^2, we get that (1 + C(x)) * (C(x) + C(x^2))/(1 - C(x^2))^2 = (x^2 - x + 1) * x * (x^2 + 3*x + 1) * (x + 1)^2/((x^2 + x - 1)^2 * (x^2 - x - 1)^2).
The roots of the denominator (x^2 + x - 1)^2 * (x^2 - x - 1)^2 are phi, -phi, 1/phi, -1/phi, where phi = (1 + sqrt(5))/2 = A001622 is the golden ratio. Each of these roots is double, so a(n) = (c_1 + d_1*n) * phi^n + (c_2 + d_2*n) * (-phi)^n + (c_3 + d_3*n) * (1/phi)^n + (c_4 + d_4*n) * (-1/phi)^n, and the constants c_i, d_i (i = 1, 2, 3, 4) can be determined from the first eight terms of (a(n): n >= 1). Since, however, the Fibonacci numbers (A000045(n): n >= 0) can be expressed in terms of phi, after some tedious algebra, we may derive the formula given below.

			We have a(1) = 1 because we only have one symmetric cyclic composition of n = 1, namely 1_1, which has 1 part.
We have a(2) = 4 because we have the following colored achiral cyclic compositions of n = 2: 2_1, 2_2, 1_1 + 1_1; hence, a(2) = 1 + 1 + 2 = 4.
We have a(3) = 10 because we have the following colored achiral cyclic compositions of n = 3: 3_1, 3_2, 3_3, 1_1 + 2_1, 1_1 + 2_2, 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1; hence, a(3) = 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 = 10.
We have a(4) = 26 because we have the following colored achiral cyclic compositions of n = 4: 4_1, 4_2, 4_3, 4_4, 1_1 + 3_1, 1_1 + 3_2, 1_1 + 3_3, 2_1 + 2_1, 2_1 + 2_2, 2_2 + 2_2, 1_1 + 2_1 + 1_1, 1_1 + 2_2 + 1_1, 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1; hence, a(4) = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4 = 26.
We have a(5) = 53 because we have the following colored achiral cyclic compositions of n = 5:
(i) With one part: 5_1, 5_2, 5_3, 5_4, 5_5; i.e., a total of 5 parts.
(ii) With two parts: 1_1 + 4_1, 1_1 + 4_2, 1_1 + 4_3, 1_1 + 4_4, 2_1 + 3_1, 2_1 + 3_2, 2_1 + 3_3, 2_2 + 3_1, 2_2 + 3_2, 2_2 + 3_3; i.e., a total of 20 parts.
(iii) With three parts: 1_1 + 3_1 + 1_1, 1_1 + 3_2 + 1_1, 1_1 + 3_3 + 1_1, 2_1 + 1_1 + 2_1, 2_2 + 1_1 + 2_2; i.e., a total of 15 parts.
(iv) With four parts: 1_1 + 1_1 + 2_1 + 1_1, 1_1 + 1_1 + 2_2 + 1_1 (here, the axis of symmetry passes through one of the 1's and through 2); i.e., a total of 8 parts.
(v) With five parts: 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1; i.e., a total of 5 parts.
Thus, a(5) = 5 + 20 + 15 + 8 + 5 = 53.

A. K. Agarwal, n-colour compositions, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 31(11) (2000), 1421-1427.
C. G. Bower, Transforms (2).
Petros Hadjicostas, Generalized colored circular palindromic compositions, Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory, 9(2) (2020), 173-186.
Meghann Moriah Gibson, Combinatorics of compositions, Master of Science, Georgia Southern University, 2017.
Meghann Moriah Gibson, Daniel Gray, and Hua Wang, Combinatorics of n-color compositions, Discrete Mathematics 341 (2018), 3209-3226.
D. M. Y. Sommerville, On certain periodic properties of cyclic compositions of numbers, Proc. London Math. Soc. S2-7(1) (1909), 263-313.

Cf. A000045, A001622, A030267, A032198, A032287, A088305, A308723.

a(n) = (n/5) * (11*F(n) + 7*F(n-1)) + (-1)^n * (n/5) * (-4*F(n) + 7*F(n-1)) - (2/5) * (5*F(n+1) + 3*F(n)) - (-1)^n * (2/5) * (3*F(n) - 5*F(n-1)) for n >= 1, where F(n) = A000045(n) is the n-th Fibonacci number.

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

A308817 Total number of parts in all m-color dihedral compositions of n (that is, the total number of parts in all dihedral compositions of n where a part of size m may be colored with one of m colors).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 4, 10, 26, 56, 138, 299, 726, 1686, 4158, 10130, 25678, 64725, 166538, 428456, 1112226, 2888604, 7533750, 19653903, 51367462, 134277878, 351284164, 919080550, 2405427698, 6295780309, 16480373968, 43141303978, 112939105716, 295664584064, 774042041090, 2026429360115, 5305210333758

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Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 26 2019

nonn

Cyclic compositions of a positive integer n are equivalence classes of ordered partitions of n such that two such partitions are equivalent iff one can be obtained from the other by rotation. These were first studied by Sommerville (1909).
Symmetric cyclic compositions or circular palindromes or achiral cyclic compositions are those cyclic compositions that have at least one axis of symmetry. They were also studied by Sommerville (1909, pp. 301-304).
Dihedral compositions of a positive integer n are equivalence classes of ordered partitions of n such that two such partitions are equivalent iff one can be obtained from the other by rotation or reflection. See, for example, Knopfmacher and Robbins (2013).
The number of dihedral compositions of n (of any kind) is the average of the corresponding numbers of cyclic and symmetric cyclic compositions of n.
Let c = (c(m): m >= 1) be the input sequence and let b_k = (b_k(n): n >= 1) be the output sequence under Bower's DIK[k] ("bracelet, indistinct, unlabeled" with k boxes) transform of c; that is, b_k(n) = (DIK[k] c)n for n >= 1. Hence, b_k(n) is the number of dihedral compositions of n with k parts, where a part of size m can be colored with one of c(m) colors. If C(x) = Sum{m >= 1} c(m)*x^m is the g.f. of the input sequence c, then the bivariate g.f. of the list of sequences (b_k: k >= 1) = ((DIK[k] c): k >= 1) = ((b_k(n): n >= 1): k >= 1) is Sum_{n,k >= 1} b_k(n)*x^n*y^k = (1 + y * C(x))^2/(4 * (1 - y^2 * C(x^2))) - (1/4) - (1/2) * Sum_{d >= 1} (phi(d)/d) * log(1 - y^d * C(x^d)).
Here, Sum_{k=1..n} k*b_k(n) is the total number of parts in all colored dihedral compositions of n (where the coloring of parts is done according to the input sequence c). To find the g.f. of the sequence (Sum_{k=1..n} k*b_k(n): n >= 1), we differentiate the above bivariate g.f. (i.e., Sum_{n,k >= 1} b_k(n)*x^n*y^k) w.r.t. y and set y = 1. We get (1 + C(x)) * (C(x) + C(x^2))/(2 * (1 - C(x^2))^2) + (1/2) * Sum_{d >= 1} phi(d) * C(x^d)/(1 - C(x^d)).
For the current sequence, the input sequence is c(m) = m for m >= 1, and we are dealing with the so-called "m-color" compositions. m-color linear compositions were studied by Agarwal (2000), whereas m-color cyclic compositions were studied by Gibson (2017) and Gibson et al. (2018).
Thus, for the current sequence, a(n) is the total number of parts in all m-color dihedral compositions of n (where a part of size m may be colored with one of m colors). Since C(x) = x/(1 - x)^2, we get that (1 + C(x)) * (C(x) + C(x^2))/(2 * (1 - C(x^2))^2) + (1/2) * Sum_{d >= 1} phi(d) * C(x^d)/(1 - C(x^d))  = (1/2) * (x^2 - x + 1) * x * (x^2 + 3*x + 1) * (x + 1)^2/((x^2 + x - 1)^2 * (x^2 - x - 1)^2) + (1/2) * Sum_{s >= 1} phi(s) * x^s/(1 - 3*x^s + x^(2*s)).

			We have a(1) = 1 because 1_1 is the only m-color dihedral composition of n = 1 and the total number of parts is 1.
We have a(2) = 4 because 2_1, 2_2, 1_1 + 1_1 are all the m-color dihedral compositions of 2 and the total number of parts is 1 + 1 + 2 = 4.
We have a(3) = 10 because 3_1, 3_2, 3_3, 1_1 + 2_1, 1_1 + 2_2, 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1 are all the m-color dihedral compositions of n = 3 and the total number of parts is 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 = 10.
We have a(4) = 26 because 4_1, 4_2, 4_3, 4_4, 1_1 + 3_1, 1_1 + 3_2, 1_1 + 3_3, 2_1 + 2_1, 2_1 + 2_2, 2_2 + 2_2, 1_1 + 2_1 + 1_1, 1_1 + 2_2 + 1_1, 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1 + 1_1 are all the m-color dihedral compositions of n = 4 and the total number of parts is 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4 = 26.
Note that a(n) = A307415(n) = A308723(n) for n = 1, 2, 3, 4 because all cyclic compositions of n when 1 <= n <= 4 are symmetric as well (and thus are dihedral).
For n = 5, we have A307415(5) = 53 <> 59 = A308723(5), in which case, a(n) = (53 + 59)/2 = 56. For example, 1_1 + 2_1 + 3_1 is a dihedral composition of n = 5, but it is not symmetric, so it corresponds to two (inequivalent) cyclic compositions: 1_1 + 2_1 + 3_1 and 3_1 + 2_1 + 1_1. Similarly, 1_1 + 2_1 + 2_2 is a dihedral composition of n = 5, but it is not symmetric, so it corresponds to two (inequivalent) cyclic compositions: 1_1 + 2_1 + 2_2 and 2_2 + 2_1 + 1_1.

A. K. Agarwal, n-colour compositions, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 31 (11) (2000), 1421-1427.
C. G. Bower, Transforms (2).
Petros Hadjicostas, Generalized colored circular palindromic compositions, Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory, 9(2) (2020), 173-186.
Meghann Moriah Gibson, Combinatorics of compositions, Master of Science, Georgia Southern University, 2017.
Meghann Moriah Gibson, Daniel Gray, and Hua Wang, Combinatorics of n-color compositions, Discrete Mathematics 341 (2018), 3209-3226.
Arnold Knopfmacher and Neville Robbins, Some properties of dihedral compositions, Util. Math. 92 (2013), 207-220.
D. M. Y. Sommerville, On certain periodic properties of cyclic compositions of numbers, Proc. London Math. Soc. S2-7(1) (1909), 263-313.

Cf. A000045, A030267, A032198, A032287, A088305, A307415, A308723.

a(n) = (A307415(n) + A308723(n))/2 for n >= 1.
a(n) = (n/10) * (11*F(n) + 7*F(n-1)) + (-1)^n * (n/10) * (-4*F(n) + 7*F(n-1)) - (1/5) * (5*F(n+1) + 3*F(n)) - (-1)^n * (1/5) * (3*F(n) - 5*F(n-1)) + (1/2) * Sum_{s|n} phi(n/s) * F(2*s) for n >= 1, where F(n) = A000045(n) (Fibonacci numbers).
G.f.: (1/2) * (x^2 - x + 1) * x * (x^2 + 3*x + 1) * (x + 1)^2/((x^2 + x - 1)^2 * (x^2 - x - 1)^2) + (1/2) * Sum_{s >= 1} phi(s) * x^s/(1 - 3*x^s + x^(2*s)).

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