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A005970 Sum of squares of Lucas numbers.
(Formerly M4689)
+0
2
1, 10, 26, 75, 196, 520, 1361, 3570, 9346, 24475, 64076, 167760, 439201, 1149850, 3010346, 7881195, 20633236, 54018520, 141422321, 370248450, 969323026, 2537720635, 6643838876, 17393796000, 45537549121, 119218851370 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

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

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

A. Brousseau, Fibonacci and Related Number Theoretic Tables. Fibonacci Association, San Jose, CA, 1972, p. 20.

LINKS

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

FORMULA

G.f.: [1+7x-4x^2]/[(1-x)(1+x)(1-3x+x^2)]. - Ralf Stephan, Apr 23 2004

MAPLE

lucas := proc(n) option remember: if n=1 then RETURN(1) fi: if n=2 then RETURN(3) fi: lucas(n-1)+lucas(n-2) end: l[0] := 0: for i from 1 to 50 do l[i] := l[i-1]+lucas(i)^2; printf(`%d, `, l[i]) od:

A005970:=(-1-7*z+4*z**2)/(z-1)/(z+1)/(z**2-3*z+1); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A134420 A144255 A072379 this_sequence A051966 A092774 A024168

Adjacent sequences: A005967 A005968 A005969 this_sequence A005971 A005972 A005973

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms and Maple program from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), May 29 2000

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