OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Same as Pisot sequences E(3, 6), L(3, 6), P(3, 6), T(3, 6). See A008776 for definitions of Pisot sequences.
Also least number m such that 2^n is the smallest proper divisor of m which is also a suffix of m in binary representation, see A080940. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 25 2003
Length of the period of the sequence Fibonacci(k) (mod 2^(n+1)). - Benoit Cloitre, Mar 12 2003
The sequence of first differences is this sequence itself. - Alexandre Wajnberg and Eric Angelini, Sep 07 2005
Subsequence of A122132. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 21 2006
Apart from the first term, a subsequence of A124509. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 04 2006
Total number of Latin n-dimensional hypercubes (Latin polyhedra) of order 3. - Kenji Ohkuma (k-ookuma(AT)ipa.go.jp), Jan 10 2007
Number of different ternary hypercubes of dimension n. - Edwin Soedarmadji (edwin(AT)systems.caltech.edu), Dec 10 2005
For n >= 1, a(n) is equal to the number of functions f:{1, 2, ..., n + 1} -> {1, 2, 3} such that for fixed, different x_1, x_2,...,x_n in {1, 2, ..., n + 1} and fixed y_1, y_2,...,y_n in {1, 2, 3} we have f(x_i) <> y_i, (i = 1,2,...,n). - Milan Janjic, May 10 2007
a(n) written in base 2: 11, 110, 11000, 110000, ..., i.e.: 2 times 1, n times 0 (see A003953). - Jaroslav Krizek, Aug 17 2009
Subsequence of A051916. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 20 2010
Numbers containing the number 3 in their Collatz trajectories. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 20 2012
a(n-1) gives the number of ternary numbers with n digits with no two adjacent digits in common; e.g., for n=3 we have 010, 012, 020, 021, 101, 102, 120, 121, 201, 202, 210 and 212. - Jon Perry, Oct 10 2012
If n > 1, then a(n) is a solution for the equation sigma(x) + phi(x) = 3x-4. This equation also has solutions 84, 3348, 1450092, ... which are not of the form 3*2^n. - Farideh Firoozbakht, Nov 30 2013
a(n) is the upper bound for the "X-ray number" of any convex body in E^(n + 2), conjectured by Bezdek and Zamfirescu, and proved in the plane E^2 (see the paper by Bezdek and Zamfirescu). - L. Edson Jeffery, Jan 11 2014
If T is a topology on a set V of size n and T is not the discrete topology, then T has at most 3 * 2^(n-2) many open sets. See Brown and Stephen references. - Ross La Haye, Jan 19 2014
Comment from Charles Fefferman, courtesy of Doron Zeilberger, Dec 02 2014: (Start)
Fix a dimension n. For a real-valued function f defined on a finite set E in R^n, let Norm(f, E) denote the inf of the C^2 norms of all functions F on R^n that agree with f on E. Then there exist constants k and C depending only on the dimension n such that Norm(f, E) <= C*max{ Norm(f, S) }, where the max is taken over all k-point subsets S in E. Moreover, the best possible k is 3 * 2^(n-1).
The analogous result, with the same k, holds when the C^2 norm is replaced, e.g., by the C^1, alpha norm (0 < alpha <= 1). However, the optimal analogous k, e.g., for the C^3 norm is unknown.
For the above results, see Y. Brudnyi and P. Shvartsman (1994). (End)
Also, coordination sequence for (infinity, infinity, infinity) tiling of hyperbolic plane. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 29 2015
The average of consecutive powers of 2 beginning with 2^1. - Melvin Peralta and Miriam Ong Ante, May 14 2016
For n > 1, a(n) is the smallest Zumkeller number with n divisors that are also Zumkeller numbers (A083207). - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Dec 09 2016
Also, for n >= 2, the number of length-n strings over the alphabet {0,1,2,3} having only the single letters as nonempty palindromic subwords. (Corollary 21 in Fleischer and Shallit) - Jeffrey Shallit, Dec 02 2019
Also, a(n) is the minimum link-length of any covering trail, circuit, path, and cycle for the set of the 2^(n+2) vertices of an (n+2)-dimensional hypercube. - Marco Ripà, Aug 22 2022
The known fixed points of maps n -> A163511(n) and n -> A243071(n). [See comments in A163511]. - Antti Karttunen, Sep 06 2023
The finite subsequence a(3), a(4), a(5), a(6) = 24, 48, 96, 192 is one of only two geometric sequences that can be formed with all interior angles (all integer, in degrees) of a simple polygon. The other sequence is a subsequence of A000244 (see comment there). - Felix Huber, Feb 15 2024
A level 1 Sierpiński triangle is a triangle. Level n+1 is formed from three copies of level n by identifying pairs of corner vertices of each pair of triangles. For n>2, a(n-3) is the radius of the level n Sierpiński triangle graph. - Allan Bickle, Aug 03 2024
REFERENCES
Jason I. Brown, Discrete Structures and Their Interactions, CRC Press, 2013, p. 71.
T. Ito, Method, equipment, program and storage media for producing tables, Publication number JP2004-272104A, Japan Patent Office (written in Japanese, a(2)=12, a(3)=24, a(4)=48, a(5)=96, a(6)=192, a(7)=384 (a(7)=284 was corrected)).
Kenji Ohkuma, Atsuhiro Yamagishi and Toru Ito, Cryptography Research Group Technical report, IT Security Center, Information-Technology Promotion Agency, JAPAN.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
K. Bezdek and Tudor Zamfirescu, A Characterization of 3-dimensional Convex Sets with an Infinite X-ray Number, in: Coll. Math. Soc. J. Bolyai 63., Intuitive Geometry, Szeged (Hungary), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991, pp. 33-38.
Allan Bickle, Properties of Sierpinski Triangle Graphs, Springer PROMS 448 (2021) 295-303.
Yuri Brudnyi and Pavel Shvartsman, Generalizations of Whitney's extension theorem, International Mathematics Research Notices 1994.3 (1994): 129-139.
J. W. Cannon and P. Wagreich, Growth functions of surface groups, Mathematische Annalen, 1992, Volume 293, pp. 239-257. See Prop. 3.1.
Tomislav Došlić, Kepler-Bouwkamp Radius of Combinatorial Sequences, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 17, 2014, #14.11.3.
John Elias, Illustration: 2^n+1 hexagram perimeters
Lukas Fleischer and Jeffrey Shallit, Words With Few Palindromes, Revisited, arxiv preprint arXiv:1911.12464 [cs.FL], November 27 2019.
A. Hinz, S. Klavzar, and S. Zemljic, A survey and classification of Sierpinski-type graphs, Discrete Applied Mathematics 217 3 (2017), 565-600.
Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences
Roberto Rinaldi and Marco Ripà, Optimal cycles enclosing all the nodes of a k-dimensional hypercube, arXiv:2212.11216 [math.CO], 2022.
Edwin Soedarmadji, Latin Hypercubes and MDS Codes, Discrete Mathematics, Volume 306, Issue 12, Jun 28 2006, Pages 1232-1239
D. Stephen, Topology on Finite Sets, American Mathematical Monthly, 75: 739 - 741, 1968.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2).
FORMULA
G.f.: 3/(1-2*x).
a(n) = 2*a(n - 1), n > 0; a(0) = 3.
a(n) = Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^(k reduced (mod 3))*binomial(n, k). - Benoit Cloitre, Aug 20 2002
a(n) = A118416(n + 1, 2) for n > 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 27 2006
a(n) = A000079(n)*3. - Omar E. Pol, Dec 16 2008
From Paul Curtz, Feb 05 2009: (Start)
a(n) = abs(b(n) - b(n+3)) with b(n) = (-1)^n*A084247(n). (End)
a(n) = 2^n + 2^(n + 1). - Jaroslav Krizek, Aug 17 2009
a(n) = (A000225(n) + 1)*3. - Martin Ettl, Nov 11 2012
E.g.f.: 3*exp(2*x). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, May 15 2016
A020651(a(n)) = 2. - Yosu Yurramendi, Jun 01 2016
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = 2/3. - Amiram Eldar, Oct 28 2020
MAPLE
MATHEMATICA
Table[3(2^n), {n, 0, 32}] (* Alonso del Arte, Mar 24 2011 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=3*2^n
(PARI) a(n)=3<<n \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 10 2012
(Magma) [3*2^n: n in [0..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, May 18 2011
(Haskell)
a007283 = (* 3) . (2 ^)
a007283_list = iterate (* 2) 3
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 18 2012, Feb 20 2012
(Maxima) A007283(n):=3*2^n$
makelist(A007283(n), n, 0, 30); /* Martin Ettl, Nov 11 2012 */
(Scala) (List.fill(40)(2: BigInt)).scanLeft(1: BigInt)(_ * _).map(3 * _) // Alonso del Arte, Nov 28 2019
(Python)
def A007283(n): return 3<<n # Chai Wah Wu, Feb 14 2023
CROSSREFS
Coordination sequences for triangular tilings of hyperbolic space: A001630, A007283, A054886, A078042, A096231, A163876, A179070, A265057, A265058, A265059, A265060, A265061, A265062, A265063, A265064, A265065, A265066, A265067, A265068, A265069, A265070, A265071, A265072, A265073, A265074, A265075, A265076, A265077.
Subsequence of the following sequences: A029744, A029747, A029748, A029750, A362804 (after 3), A364494, A364496, A364289, A364291, A364292, A364295, A364497, A364964, A365422.
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved