OFFSET
0,6
COMMENTS
Number of compositions (ordered partitions) of n into elements of the set {2,3,5}.
For n>=2, a(n) is number of compositions of n-2 with elements from the set {1,2,3} such that no two odd numbers appear consecutively. - Armend Shabani, Mar 01 2017
REFERENCES
D. H. Lehmer, Permutations with strongly restricted displacements. Combinatorial theory and its applications, II (Proc. Colloq., Balatonfured, 1969), pp. 755-770. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.
LINKS
Vladimir Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics Vol. 4, No 1 (2010), 119-135
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,1,1,0,1).
FORMULA
a(n) = a(n-2) + a(n-3) + a(n-5).
G.f.: -1/(x^5 + x^3 + x^2 - 1).
MATHEMATICA
CoefficientList[Series[-1/(x^5 + x^3 + x^2 - 1), {x, 0, 44}], x] (* Michael De Vlieger, Mar 02 2017 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Vladimir Baltic, Feb 17 2003
STATUS
approved