Search: id:A000172 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A000172 M1971 N0781 %S A000172 1,2,10,56,346,2252,15184,104960,739162,5280932,38165260,278415920, %T A000172 2046924400,15148345760,112738423360,843126957056,6332299624282, %U A000172 47737325577620,361077477684436,2739270870994736,20836827035351596 %N A000172 Franel number a(n) = Sum C(n,k)^3, k=0..n. %C A000172 Cusick gives a general method of deriving recurrences for the r-th order Franel numbers (this is the sequence of third-order Franel numbers), with [(r+3)/2] terms. %C A000172 Comment from Matthijs Coster, Apr 28, 2004: This is the Taylor expansion of a special point on a curve described by Beauville. %C A000172 a(1) = 2 is the only prime Franel number. Semiprime Franel numbers include: a(2) = 10 = 2 * 5, a(4) = 346 = 2 * 173, a(8) = 739162 = 2 * 369581. - Jonathan Vos Post (jvospost3(AT)gmail.com), May 22 2005 %C A000172 Number of permutations of 3 distinct letters (ABCD) each with n copies such that free fixed points. E.g. if AAAAABBBBBCCCCC n=3*5 letters permutations then free fixed points n5=2252 - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Feb 02 2006 %D A000172 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %D A000172 N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence). %D A000172 R. Askey, Orthognal Polynomials and Special Functions, SIAM, 1975; see p. 43. %D A000172 P. Barrucand, A combinatorial identity, Problem 75-4, SIAM Rev., 17 (1975), 168. Solution by D. R. Breach, D. McCarthy, D. Monk and P. E. O'Neil, SIAM Rev. 18 (1976), 303. %D A000172 Arnaud Beauville, Les familles stables de courbes sur P_1 admettant quatre fibres singulieres, Comptes Rendus, Academie Science Paris, no. 294, May 24 1982. %D A000172 Matthijs Coster, Over 6 families van krommen [On 6 families of curves], Master's Thesis (unpublished), Aug 26 1983. %D A000172 T. W. Cusick, Recurrences for sums of powers of binomial coefficients, J. Combin. Theory, A 52 (1989), 77-83. %D A000172 C. Elsner, On recurrence formulae for sums involving binomial coefficients, Fib. Q., 43 (No. 1, 2005), 31-45. %D A000172 J. Franel, Intermediaire des Mathematiciens, 1894. %D A000172 M. Klamkin, ed., Problems in Applied Mathematics: Selections from SIAM Review, SIAM, 1990; see pp. 148-149. %D A000172 J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, p. 193. %H A000172 T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..100 %H A000172 Nick Hobson, Python program for this sequence %H A000172 V. Strehl, Recurrences and Legendre transform %H A000172 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics. %H A000172 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics. %H A000172 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Schmidt's Problem %H A000172 David Callan, A combinatorial interpretation for the identity Sum_{k=0}^{n} binom{n}{k} Sum_{j=0}^{k} binom{k}{j}^{3}= Sum_{k=0}^{n} binom{n}{k}^{2}binom{2k}{k} . %F A000172 A002893(n) = Sum_{m=0..n} binomial(n, m) a(m) [Barrucand] %F A000172 Sum C(n, k)^3, k=0..n = (-1)^n Integral_{0..infinity} L_k(x)^3 exp(-x) dx. - from Askey's book, p. 43. %F A000172 (n+1)^2 * a(n+1) = (7n^2+7n+2) * a(n) + 8n^2 * a(n-1) [Franel] - Felix Goldberg (felixg(AT)tx.technion.ac.il), Jan 31 2001 %F A000172 a(n) ~ 2*3^(-1/2)*pi^-1*n^-1*2^(3*n) - Joe Keane (jgk(AT)jgk.org), Jun 21 2002 %Y A000172 Cf. A002893, A052144, A005260, A096191. Second row of array A094424. %Y A000172 Cf. A033581. %Y A000172 Sequence in context: A122826 A108490 A165817 this_sequence A097971 A093303 A075870 %Y A000172 Adjacent sequences: A000169 A000170 A000171 this_sequence A000173 A000174 A000175 %K A000172 nonn,easy,nice %O A000172 0,2 %A A000172 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). Search completed in 0.002 seconds