These are binary sequences (sequences of 1's and 0's), and two sequences are considered the same if one can be transformed into the other by translation and/or exchanging 1 and 0. A periodic sequence can be represented by enclosing one period in parentheses (for example, (00011011)). Even sequences contain an even number of 1's and an even number of 0's. - Michael B. Porter, Dec 22 2019
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
For n=2, the sequences of length 2n=4 are (0000), (0001), (0011), and (0101). The other 12 possibilities are equivalent - for example, the sequence (1001) is a translation of (0011), and the sequence (1101) is equivalent to (0001) by exchanging 1's and 0's and then translating. Since three of these have an even number of 1's, a(2) = 3. - Michael B. Porter, Dec 22 2019