OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
A. A. Dobrynin, I. Gutman, S. Klavzar, P. Zigert, Wiener Index of Hexagonal Systems, Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 72 (2002), pp. 247-294.
I. Gutman, S. Klavzar, M. Petkovsek, and P. Zigert, On Hosoya polynomials of benzenoid graphs, Comm. Math. Comp. Chem. (MATCH), 43, 2001, 49-66.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,1,-4,1,2,-1).
FORMULA
a(n) = 4*n^3 + 16*n^2 + 8*n + 2*(-1)^n*(n - 2) - 3.
G.f.: x*(27 + 55*x + 26*x^2 + 2*x^3 - 21*x^4 + 7*x^5)/((1+x)^2*(1-x)^4). - Bruno Berselli, Jul 27 2011
MAPLE
a := proc (n) options operator, arrow: 4*n^3+16*n^2+8*n+2*(-1)^n*(n-2)-3 end proc: seq(a(n), n = 1 .. 40);
PROG
(Magma) [4*n^3 + 16*n^2 + 8*n + 2*(-1)^n*(n - 2) - 3: n in [1..40]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jul 26 2011
(PARI) a(n)=4*n^3+16*n^2+8*n+2*(-1)^n*(n-2)-3 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 28 2011
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Emeric Deutsch, Jul 25 2011
STATUS
approved