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A062200 Number of compositions of n such that two adjacent parts are not equal modulo 2. +0
6
1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 6, 6, 11, 16, 22, 37, 49, 80, 113, 172, 257, 377, 573, 839, 1266, 1874, 2798, 4175, 6204, 9274, 13785, 20577, 30640, 45665, 68072, 101393, 151169, 225193, 335659, 500162, 745342, 1110790, 1655187, 2466760, 3675822 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,4

COMMENT

Also (0,1)-strings such that all maximal blocks of 1's have even length and all maximal blocks of 0's have odd length.

REFERENCES

I. P. Goulden and D. M. Jackson, Combinatorial Enumeration, Wiley, N.Y., 1983,(Problems 2.4.3, 2.4.13).

FORMULA

a(n)= Sum_{j=0..n+1} binomial(n-j+1, 3*j-n+1). a(n) = 2*a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4).

G.f.: -(x^2-x-1)/(x^4-x^3-2*x^2+1). More generally, g.f. for the number of compositions of n such that two adjacent parts are not equal modulo p is 1/(1-Sum_{i=1..p} x^i/(1+x^i-x^p)).

CROSSREFS

Cf. A003242, A062201-A062203.

Sequence in context: A154028 A157793 A096375 this_sequence A114208 A014686 A053090

Adjacent sequences: A062197 A062198 A062199 this_sequence A062201 A062202 A062203

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Jun 13 2001

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