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A002895 Number of 2n-step polygons on diamond lattice.
(Formerly M3626 N1473)
+0
3
1, 4, 28, 256, 2716, 31504, 387136, 4951552, 65218204, 878536624, 12046924528, 167595457792, 2359613230144, 33557651538688, 481365424895488, 6956365106016256, 101181938814289564, 1480129751586116848 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENT

a(n) is the (2n)th moment of the distance from the origin of a 4-step random walk in the plane - Peter M.W. Gill (peter.gill(AT)nott.ac.uk), Mar 03 2004

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, David Broadhurst and M. L. Glasser, Elliptic integral evaluations of Bessel moments, arXiv:0801.0891.

C. Domb, On the theory of cooperative phenomena in crystals, Advances in Phys., 9 (1960), 149-361.

J. A. Hendrickson, Jr., On the enumeration of rectangular (0,1)-matrices, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 51 (1995), 291-313.

LINKS

L. B. Richmond, J. Shallit, Counting Abelian Squares, arXiv:0807.5028 [Math.CO]. [From R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Oct 30 2008]

FORMULA

Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n, k)^2 binomial(2n-2k, n-k) binomial(2k, k).

n^3*a(n) = 2*(2*n-1)*(5*n^2-5*n+2)*a(n-1)-64*(n-1)^3*a(n-2). - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Jul 16 2004

Sum_{n>=0} a(n)*x^n/n!^2 = BesselI(0, 2*sqrt(x))^4. - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Aug 01 2006

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002893.

Sequence in context: A112113 A103211 A064340 this_sequence A141004 A152410 A138272

Adjacent sequences: A002892 A002893 A002894 this_sequence A002896 A002897 A002898

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice,walk

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Mar 11 2003

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