OFFSET
1,3
LINKS
Colin Barker, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Path Graph
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Total Dominating Set
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1).
FORMULA
a(n) = ((-1)^n*(n - 2)^2 + (6 + n)^2 - 2*(n - 2)*(n + 6)*cos(n*Pi/2) - 48*sin(n*Pi/2))/6.
a(n) = 3*a(n-4) - 3*a(n-8) + a(n-12).
G.f.: x^2*(1 + 2*x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 - 3*x^5 - 2*x^6 - x^7 + x^9 + x^10) / ((1 - x)^3*(1 + x)^3*(1 + x^2)^3). - Colin Barker, Dec 25 2019
MATHEMATICA
Table[Piecewise[{{1, Mod[n, 4] == 0}, {((n + 2)/4)^2, Mod[n, 4] == 2}, {(n - 1)/4, Mod[n, 4] == 1}, {(n + 5)/4, Mod[n, 4] == 3}}], {n, 20}]
Table[((-1)^n (n - 2)^2 + (6 + n)^2 - 2 (n - 2) (n + 6) Cos[n Pi/2] - 48 Sin[n Pi/2])/64, {n, 20}]
LinearRecurrence[{0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1}, {0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 3, 1, 2, 9, 4, 1}, 20]
PROG
(PARI) concat(0, Vec(x^2*(1 + 2*x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 - 3*x^5 - 2*x^6 - x^7 + x^9 + x^10) / ((1 - x)^3*(1 + x)^3*(1 + x^2)^3) + O(x^70))) \\ Colin Barker, Dec 25 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Eric W. Weisstein, Apr 11 2018
STATUS
proposed