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A005972 Sum of fourth powers of Lucas numbers.
(Formerly M5358)
+0
1
1, 82, 338, 2739, 17380, 122356, 829637, 5709318, 39071494, 267958135, 1836197336, 12586569192, 86266785673, 591288786874, 4052734152890, 27777904133691, 190392453799372, 1304969641560028, 8944394070807629 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

A. Brousseau, Fibonacci and Related Number Theoretic Tables. Fibonacci Association, San Jose, CA, 1972, p. 21.

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

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+76x-164x^2-79x^3+16x^4]/[(1-x)^2(1+3x+x^2)(1-7x+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)^4; printf(`%d, `, l[i]) od:

A005972:=(1+76*z-164*z**2-79*z**3+16*z**4)/(z**2-7*z+1)/(z**2+3*z+1)/(z-1)**2; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A116341 A102956 A031696 this_sequence A082972 A031422 A002309

Adjacent sequences: A005969 A005970 A005971 this_sequence A005973 A005974 A005975

KEYWORD

nonn

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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