OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
An achiral coloring is identical to its reflection. The Schläfli symbols for the tesseract and the hyperoctahedron are {4,3,3} and {3,3,4} respectively. Both figures are regular 4-D polyhedra and they are mutually dual.
LINKS
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (8,-28,56,-70,56,-28,8,-1).
FORMULA
a(n) = binomial(binomial(n+1,2)+3,4) - binomial(binomial(n,2),4).
a(n) = n^2 * (n+1)^2 * (n+3) * (n^2 -2n +4) / 48.
a(n) = 1*C(n,1) + 13*C(n,2) + 84*C(n,3) + 282*C(n,4) + 465*C(n,5) + 360*C(n,6) + 105*C(n,7), where the coefficient of C(n,k) is the number of achiral colorings using exactly k colors.
From Stefano Spezia, Oct 04 2020: (Start)
G.f.: x*(1 + 7*x + 34*x^2 + 56*x^3 + 8*x^4 - x^5)/(1 - x)^8.
a(n) = 8*a(n-1) - 28*a(n-2) + 56*a(n-3) - 70*a(n-4) + 56*a(n-5) - 28*a(n-6) + 8*a(n-7) - a(n-8) for n > 8.
(End)
MATHEMATICA
Table[Binomial[Binomial[n+1, 2]+3, 4] - Binomial[Binomial[n, 2], 4], {n, 30}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert A. Russell, Oct 03 2020
STATUS
approved