1,1

Also, 3 ones in a row are not allowed - this additional condition is only relevant for a(3) which has no subsequences of length 4.

For n>=4, a(n) = the sum of all terms in the n-4th power of the 11 X 11 matrix:

[1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]

[0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]

[0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0]

[0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0]

[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0]

[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0]

[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1]

[1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]

[0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]

[0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0]

[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0]

because this matrix represents the transitions from the state where the last four bits are 0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100, 0101, 0110, 1000, 1001, 1010, 1100 to the state after the next bit, always avoiding three 1's out of the last four bits. - Joshua Zucker (joshua.zucker(AT)stanfordalumni.org), Aug 04 2006

Motivated by radar research. In the standard model to get a track on a target you have to get at least M detections out of N observations. See page 96 of Minkler and Minkler. I represented detections as ones and non-detections as zeros. Hence this sequence represents non-tracked situations with n observations.

G. Minkler and J. Minkler, CFAR: The Principles of Automatic Radar Detection in Clutter, Magellan, Baltimore, 1990.

a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) + a(n-4) - a(n-6) - suggested by Jon Schoenfield (jonschoAThiwaay.net)

Complementary to A118646: a(n) = 2^n - A118646(n).

Sequence in context: A083024 A003292 A007864 this_sequence A000802 A080005 A151992

Adjacent sequences: A118644 A118645 A118646 this_sequence A118648 A118649 A118650

nonn

Tanya Khovanova (tanyakh(AT)yahoo.com), May 10 2006, Aug 17 2006

More terms from Joshua Zucker (joshua.zucker(AT)stanfordalumni.org), Aug 04 2006