OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Arises in enumeration of certain pattern-avoiding permutations.
LINKS
Z. Stankova and J. West, Explicit enumeration of 321, hexagon-avoiding permutations, Discrete Math., 280 (2004), 165-189.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,-4,3,1,-1).
FORMULA
G.f.: x*(1 - 2*x + x^2 - x^3 - x^4)/(1 - 4*x + 4*x^2 - 3*x^3 - x^4 + x^5). [Maksym Voznyy (voznyy(AT)mail.ru), Aug 12 2009; corrected by R. J. Mathar, Sep 16 2009]
MAPLE
a[1]:=1: a[2]:=2: a[3]:=5: a[4]:=14: a[5]:=42: for n from 6 to 32 do a[n]:=4*a[n-1]-4*a[n-2]+3*a[n-3]+a[n-4]-a[n-5] od: seq(a[j], j=1..32); # Emeric Deutsch, Apr 12 2005
MATHEMATICA
LinearRecurrence[{4, -4, 3, 1, -1}, {1, 2, 5, 14, 42}, 40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jul 14 2024 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 04 2004
EXTENSIONS
Edited by Emeric Deutsch, Apr 12 2005
STATUS
approved