Search: id:A054491 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A054491 %S A054491 1,6,23,86,321,1198,4471,16686,62273,232406,867351,3236998,12080641, %T A054491 45085566,168261623,627960926,2343582081,8746367398,32641887511, %U A054491 121821182646,454642843073,1696750189646,6332357915511,23632681472398 %N A054491 a(n)=4a(n-1)-a(n-2), a(0)=1, a(1)=6. %C A054491 Bisection (even part) of Chebyshev sequence with Diophantine property. %C A054491 The odd part is A077234(n) with Diophantine companion A077235(n). %C A054491 -3*a(n)^2 + b(n)^2 = 13, with the companion sequence b(n)= A077236(n). %D A054491 I. Adler, Three Diophantine equations - Part II, Fib. Quart., 7(1969), pps. 181-193. %D A054491 A. H. Beiler, Recreations in the Theory of Numbers, Dover, N. Y., 1964, pps. 122-125, 194-196. %D A054491 E. I. Emerson, Recurrent Sequences in the Equation DQ^2=R^2+N, Fib. Quart., 7(1969), pps. 231-242. %H A054491 Index entries for sequences related to linear recurrences with constant coefficients %H A054491 Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences %H A054491 Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials. %F A054491 a(n)= (6*((2+sqrt(3))^n-(2-sqrt(3))^n)-((2+sqrt(3))^(n-1)-(2-sqrt(3))^(n-1)))/ (2*sqrt(3)). %F A054491 a(n)= 6*S(n-1, 4) - S(n-2, 4) = S(n, 4) + 2*S(n-1, 4), with S(n, x) := U(n, x/2) Chebyshev's polynomials of 2nd kind, A049310. S(-1, x) := 0, S(-2, x) := -1, S(n, 4)= A001353(n+1). %F A054491 G.f.: (1+2*x)/(1-4*x+x^2). %F A054491 Conjecture: a(n+1) = A001353(n+2) + 2*A001353(n+1) - Creighton Dement (creighton.k.dement(AT)uni-oldenburg.de), Nov 28 2004. Comment from Vim Wenders (vim(AT)gmx.li), Mar 26 2008: The conjecture is easily verified using a(n) = (6*((2+sqrt(3))^n-(2-sqrt(3))^n)-((2+sqrt(3))^(n-1)-(2-sqrt(3))^(n-1)))/ (2*sqrt(3)) and A001353(n)=[(2+sqrt(3))^n-(2-sqrt(3))^n]/(2*sqrt(3)). %Y A054491 Cf. A001353, A001834. %Y A054491 Sequence in context: A078798 A027043 A006815 this_sequence A013261 A013265 A038383 %Y A054491 Adjacent sequences: A054488 A054489 A054490 this_sequence A054492 A054493 A054494 %K A054491 easy,nonn %O A054491 0,2 %A A054491 Barry E. Williams, May 04 2000 %E A054491 More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), May 05 2000 %E A054491 Chebyshev comments from W. Lang (wolfdieter.lang(AT)physik.uni-karlsruhe.de), Nov 08 2002 Search completed in 0.001 seconds