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Expansion of 1/((1-x)*(1-x^4)). |
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OFFSET
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0,5
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COMMENT
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Arises from Gleason's theorem on self-dual codes: 1/((1-x^2)*(1-x^8)) is the Molien series for the real 2-dimensional Clifford group (a dihedral group of order 16) of genus 1.
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REFERENCES
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D. J. Benson, Polynomial Invariants of Finite Groups, Cambridge, 1993, p. 100.
F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane, Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, 1977, Chapter 19, Problem 3, p. 602.
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LINKS
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T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..1000
INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 211
G. Nebe, E. M. Rains and N. J. A. Sloane, Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory, Springer, Berlin, 2006.
Index entries for Molien series
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FORMULA
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a(n)= floor((n+3)/4), n>0;
a(n)= {sum{k=0..n, (k+1)cos(pi*(n-k)/2}+1/4[cos(n*Pi/2)+1+(-1)^n] }/2 - Paolo P. Lava (ppl(AT)spl.at), Oct 09 2006
Also, a(n)=Ceiling (n/4), n>=1. - Mohammad K. Azarian (azarian(AT)evansville.edu), May 22 2007
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MATHEMATICA
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Table[Floor[(n + 3)/4], {n, 1, 80}] - Stefan Steinerberger (stefan.steinerberger(AT)gmail.com), Apr 03 2006
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A008718, A024186, A110160, A110868, A110869, A110876, A110880.
Cf. A008620, A002265.
a(n)=A010766(n+4, 4).
Sequence in context: A055679 A056172 A091373 this_sequence A002265 A110655 A144075
Adjacent sequences: A008618 A008619 A008620 this_sequence A008622 A008623 A008624
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KEYWORD
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nonn,easy,nice
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AUTHOR
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N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).
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EXTENSIONS
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More terms from Stefan Steinerberger (stefan.steinerberger(AT)gmail.com), Apr 03 2006
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