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A001868
Number of n-bead necklaces with 4 colors.
19
1, 4, 10, 24, 70, 208, 700, 2344, 8230, 29144, 104968, 381304, 1398500, 5162224, 19175140, 71582944, 268439590, 1010580544, 3817763740, 14467258264, 54975633976, 209430787824, 799645010860, 3059510616424, 11728124734500, 45035996273872, 173215372864600, 667199944815064
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
From Richard L. Ollerton, May 07 2021: (Start)
Here, as in A000031, turning over is not allowed.
(1/n) * Dirichlet convolution of phi(n) and 4^n, n>0. (End)
REFERENCES
J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, p. 162.
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).
R. P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics, Cambridge, Vol. 2, 1999; see Problem 7.112(a).
LINKS
Joscha Diehl, Rosa Preiß, and Jeremy Reizenstein, Conjugation, loop and closure invariants of the iterated-integrals signature, arXiv:2412.19670 [math.RA], 2024. See p. 21.
E. N. Gilbert and J. Riordan, Symmetry types of periodic sequences, Illinois J. Math., 5 (1961), 657-665.
Yi Hu and Patrick Charbonneau, Numerical transfer matrix study of frustrated next-nearest-neighbor Ising models on square lattices, arXiv:2106.08442 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 2021.
Juhani Karhumäki, S. Puzynina, M. Rao, and M. A. Whiteland, On cardinalities of k-abelian equivalence classes, arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.03319 [math.CO], 2016.
FORMULA
a(n) = (1/n)*Sum_{d|n} phi(d)*4^(n/d) = A054611(n)/n, n>0.
G.f.: 1 - Sum_{n>=1} phi(n)*log(1 - 4*x^n)/n. - Herbert Kociemba, Nov 01 2016
a(0) = 1; a(n) = (1/n) * Sum_{k=1..n} 4^gcd(n,k). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Apr 17 2021
a(0) = 1; a(n) = (1/n)*Sum_{k=1..n} 4^(n/gcd(n,k))*phi(gcd(n,k))/phi(n/gcd(n,k)). - Richard L. Ollerton, May 07 2021
MAPLE
A001868 := proc(n) local d, s; if n = 0 then RETURN(1); else s := 0; for d in divisors(n) do s := s+phi(d)*4^(n/d); od; RETURN(s/n); fi; end;
MATHEMATICA
a[n_] := (1/n)*Total[ EulerPhi[#]*4^(n/#) & /@ Divisors[n]]; a[0] = 1; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 24}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 21 2011 *)
mx=40; CoefficientList[Series[1-Sum[EulerPhi[i] Log[1-4*x^i]/i, {i, 1, mx}], {x, 0, mx}], x] (* Herbert Kociemba, Nov 01 2016 *)
k=4; Prepend[Table[DivisorSum[n, EulerPhi[#] k^(n/#) &]/n, {n, 1, 30}], 1] (* Robert A. Russell, Sep 21 2018 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = if (n, sumdiv(n, d, eulerphi(d)*4^(n/d))/n, 1); \\ Michel Marcus, Nov 01 2016
CROSSREFS
Column 4 of A075195.
Cf. A054611.
Sequence in context: A212330 A291412 A366645 * A389350 A217696 A223014
KEYWORD
nonn,nice,easy
STATUS
approved