OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Old name was: A061684 appears to count the periodic points for a certain map. If so, then this is the sequence of the numbers of orbits of length n.
LINKS
Y. Puri and T. Ward, Arithmetic and growth of periodic orbits, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 4 (2001), #01.2.1.
J.-M. Sixdeniers, K. A. Penson and A. I. Solomon, Extended Bell and Stirling Numbers From Hypergeometric Exponentiation, J. Integer Seqs. Vol. 4 (2001), #01.1.4.
Thomas Ward, Exactly realizable sequences. [local copy].
FORMULA
If b(n) is the (n+1)th term in A061684, then a(n) = (1/n)*Sum_{d|n}mu(d)b(n/d).
EXAMPLE
The sequence A061684 begins 1,1,5,64,1613, so a(3)=(b(3)-b(1))/3=21.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Thomas Ward, Feb 24 2004
EXTENSIONS
Name clarified by Michel Marcus, May 14 2015
STATUS
approved