A001845 Centered octahedral numbers (crystal ball sequence for cubic lattice).
1, 7, 25, 63, 129, 231, 377, 575, 833, 1159, 1561, 2047, 2625, 3303, 4089, 4991, 6017, 7175, 8473, 9919, 11521, 13287, 15225, 17343, 19649, 22151, 24857, 27775, 30913, 34279, 37881, 41727, 45825, 50183, 54809, 59711, 64897, 70375, 76153, 82239
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References
- L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 81.
- N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
- N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
Links
- T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
- Luciano Ancora, The Square Pyramidal Number and other figurate numbers, ch. 4.
- Bela Bajnok, Additive Combinatorics: A Menu of Research Problems, arXiv:1705.07444 [math.NT], May 2017. See Section 2.3.
- D. Bump, K. Choi, P. Kurlberg, and J. Vaaler, A local Riemann hypothesis, I pages 16 and 17
- J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, Low-Dimensional Lattices VII: Coordination Sequences, Proc. Royal Soc. London, A453 (1997), 2369-2389 (pdf).
- Milan Janjić, Two Enumerative Functions
- Milan Janjić, Hessenberg Matrices and Integer Sequences, J. Int. Seq. 13 (2010) # 10.7.8.
- Milan Janjić, On Restricted Ternary Words and Insets, arXiv:1905.04465 [math.CO], 2019.
- G. Kreweras, Sur les hiérarchies de segments, Cahiers Bureau Universitaire Recherche Opérationnelle, Cahier 20, Inst. Statistiques, Univ. Paris, 1973.
- G. Kreweras, Sur les hiérarchies de segments, Cahiers du Bureau Universitaire de Recherche Opérationnelle, Institut de Statistique, Université de Paris, #20 (1973). (Annotated scanned copy)
- T. P. Martin, Shells of atoms, Phys. Reports, 273 (1996), 199-241, eq. (10).
- 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
- R. G. Stanton and D. D. Cowan, Note on a "square" functional equation, SIAM Rev., 12 (1970), 277-279.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Haüy Construction
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Octahedral Number
- Index entries for crystal ball sequences
- Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,-6,4,-1).
Crossrefs
Sums of 2 consecutive terms give A008412.
(1/12)*t*(2*n^3 - 3*n^2 + n) + 2*n - 1 for t = 2, 4, 6, ... gives A049480, A005894, A063488, A001845, A063489, A005898, A063490, A057813, A063491, A005902, A063492, A005917, A063493, A063494, A063495, A063496.
Partial sums of A005899.
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/column 3 of A008288.
Programs
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Haskell
a001845 n = (2 * n + 1) * (2 * n ^ 2 + 2 * n + 3) `div` 3 -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Dec 15 2013
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Mathematica
Table[(4 n^3 - 6 n^2 + 8 n - 3)/3, {n, 100}] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jan 15 2011 *) LinearRecurrence[{4, -6, 4, -1}, {1, 7, 25, 63}, 40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jun 05 2013 *) CoefficientList[Series[(1 + x)^3/(-1 + x)^4, {x, 0, 20}], x] (* Eric W. Weisstein, Sep 27 2017 *)
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PARI
a(n)=(2*n+1)*(2*n^2+2*n+3)/3 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Dec 06 2011
Formula
G.f.: (1+x)^3 /(1-x)^4. [conjectured (correctly) by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation]
a(n) = (2*n+1)*(2*n^2 + 2*n + 3)/3.
First differences of A014820(n). - Alexander Adamchuk, May 23 2006
a(n) = a(n-1) + 4*n^2 + 2, a(0)=1. - Vincenzo Librandi, Mar 27 2011
a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - 6*a(n-2) + 4*a(n-3) - a(n-4), with a(0)=1, a(1)=7, a(2)=25, a(3)=63. - Harvey P. Dale, Jun 05 2013
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..min(3,n)} 2^k * binomial(3,k) * binomial(n,k). See Bump et al. - Tom Copeland, Sep 05 2014
From Luciano Ancora, Jan 08 2015: (Start)
E.g.f.: exp(x)*(3 + 18*x + 18*x^2 + 4*x^3)/3. - Stefano Spezia, Mar 14 2024
Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(n*a(n-1)*a(n)) = 5/6 - log(2) = (1 - 1/2 + 1/3) - log(2). - Peter Bala, Mar 21 2024
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