OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Number of Schroeder paths (i.e., consisting of steps U=(1,1), D=(1,-1), H=(2,0) and never going below the x-axis) from (0,0) to (2n,0) with no peaks at odd level. Example: a(2)=3 because we have UUDD, UHD and HH. - Emeric Deutsch, Dec 06 2003
Number of 3-Motzkin paths of length n-1 (i.e., lattice paths from (0,0) to (n-1,0) that do not go below the line y=0 and consist of steps U=(1,1), D=(1,-1) and three types of steps H=(1,0)). Example: a(4)=36 because we have 27 HHH paths, 3 HUD paths, 3 UHD paths and 3 UDH paths. - Emeric Deutsch, Jan 22 2004
Number of rooted, planar trees having edges weighted by strictly positive integers (multi-trees) with weight-sum n. - Roland Bacher, Feb 28 2005
Number of skew Dyck paths of semilength n. A skew Dyck path is a path in the first quadrant which begins at the origin, ends on the x-axis, consists of steps U=(1,1)(up), D=(1,-1)(down) and L=(-1,-1)(left) so that up and left steps do not overlap. The length of the path is defined to be the number of its steps. - Emeric Deutsch, May 10 2007
Equivalently, number of self-avoiding paths of semilength n in the first quadrant beginning at the origin, staying weakly above the diagonal, ending on the diagonal, and consisting of steps r=(+1,0) (right), U=(0,+1) (up), and D=(0,-1) (down). Self-avoidance implies that factors UD and DU and steps D reaching the diagonal before the end are forbidden. The a(3) = 10 such paths are UrUrUr, UrUUrD, UrUUrr, UUrrUr, UUrUrD, UUrUrr, UUUDrD, UUUrDD, UUUrrD, and UUUrrr. - Joerg Arndt, Jan 15 2024
Hankel transform of [1,3,10,36,137,543,...] is A000012 = [1,1,1,1,...]. - Philippe Deléham, Oct 24 2007
From Gary W. Adamson, May 17 2009: (Start)
Starting (1, 3, 10, 36, ...) = INVERT transform of A007317: (1, 2, 5, 15, 51, ...). (End)
Binomial transform of A032357. - Philippe Deléham, Sep 17 2009
a(n) = number of rooted trees with n vertices in which each vertex has at most 2 children and in case a vertex has exactly one child, it is labeled left, middle or right. These are the hex trees of the Deutsch, Munarini, Rinaldi link. This interpretation yields the second MATHEMATICA recurrence below. - David Callan, Oct 14 2012
The left shift (1,3,10,36,...) of this sequence is the binomial transform of the left-shifted Catalan numbers (1,2,5,14,...). Example: 36 =1*14 + 3*5 + 3*2 + 1*1. - David Callan, Feb 01 2014
Number of Schroeder paths from (0,0) to (2n,0) with no level steps H=(2,0) at even level. Example: a(2)=3 because we have UUDD, UHD and UDUD. - José Luis Ramírez Ramírez, Apr 27 2015
This is the Riordan transform with the Riordan matrix A097805 (of the associated type) of the Catalan sequence A000108. See a Feb 17 2017 comment in A097805. - Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 17 2017
a(n) is the number of parking functions of size n avoiding the patterns 132 and 231. - Lara Pudwell, Apr 10 2023
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LINKS
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Nachum Dershowitz, Touchard's Drunkard, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 20 (2017), #17.1.5.
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M. Dziemianczuk, Enumerations of plane trees with multiple edges and Raney lattice paths, Discrete Mathematics 337 (2014): 9-24.
Ricardo Gómez Aíza, Trees with flowers: A catalog of integer partition and integer composition trees with their asymptotic analysis, arXiv:2402.16111 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 18.
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FORMULA
a(0)=1, for n > 0: a(n) = Sum_{j=0..n-1} Sum_{i=0..j} a(i)*a(j-i). G.f.: A(x) = 1 + x*A(x)^2/(1-x). - Mario Catalani (mario.catalani(AT)unito.it), Jun 19 2003
a(n) = Sum_{i=ceiling((n-1)/2)..n-1} (3^(2i+1-n)*binomial(n, i)*binomial(i, n-i-1))/n. - Emeric Deutsch, Jul 23 2002
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} binomial(2k, k)*binomial(n-1, k-1)/(k+1), i.e., binomial transform of the Catalan numbers 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, ... (A000108). a(n) = Sum_{k=0..floor((n-1)/2)} 3^(n-1-2*k)*binomial(2k, k)*binomial(n-1, 2k)/(k+1). - Emeric Deutsch, Aug 05 2002
D-finite with recurrence: a(1)=1, a(n) = (3(2n-1)*a(n-1)-5(n-2)*a(n-2))/(n+1) for n > 1. - Emeric Deutsch, Dec 18 2002
a(n) is asymptotic to c*5^n/n^(3/2) with c=0.63.... - Benoit Cloitre, Jun 23 2003
In closed form, c = (1/2)*sqrt(5/Pi) = 0.63078313050504... - Vaclav Kotesovec, Oct 04 2012
Reversion of Sum_{n>0} a(n)x^n = -Sum_{n>0} A001906(n)(-x)^n.
G.f. A(x) satisfies xA(x)^2 + (1-x)(1-A(x)) = 0.
G.f.: (1 - x - sqrt(1 - 6x + 5x^2))/(2x). For n > 1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) + Sum_{k=1..n-2} a(k)*a(n-k-1). - John W. Layman, Feb 22 2001
The Hankel transform of this sequence gives A001519 = 1, 2, 5, 13, 34, 89, ... E.g., Det([1, 1, 3, 10, 36; 1, 3, 10, 36, 137; 3, 10, 36, 137, 543; 10, 36, 137, 543, 2219; 36, 137, 543, 2219, 9285 ])= 34. - Philippe Deléham, Jan 25 2004
a(m+n+1) = Sum_{k>=0} A091965(m, k)*A091965(n, k) = A091965(m+n, 0). - Philippe Deléham, Sep 14 2005
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} 2^(n-k)*M(k)*binomial(n,k), where M(k) = A001006(k) is the k-th Motzkin number (from here it follows that a(n+1) and M(n) have the same parity). - Emeric Deutsch, May 10 2007
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} A097610(n,k)*3^k. - Philippe Deléham, Oct 02 2007
G.f.: 1/(1-x/(1-x-x/(1-x/(1-x-x/(1-x/(1-x-x/(1-... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, May 16 2009
G.f.: (1-x)/(1-2x-x^2/(1-3x-x^2/(1-3x-x^2/(1-3x-x^2/(1-3x-x^2/(1-.... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Oct 17 2009
G.f.: 1/(1-z/(1-z/(1-z/(...)))) where z=x/(1-x) (continued fraction); more generally g.f. C(x/(1-x)) where C(x) is the g.f. for the Catalan numbers (A000108). - Joerg Arndt, Mar 18 2011
a(n) = -5^(1/2)/(10*(n+1)) * (5*hypergeom([1/2, n], [1], 4/5) -3*hypergeom([1/2, n+1], [1], 4/5)) (for n>0). - Mark van Hoeij, Nov 12 2009
For n >= 1, a(n) = (1/(2*Pi))*Integral_{x=1..5} x^(n-1)*sqrt((x-1)*(5-x)) dx. - Groux Roland, Mar 16 2011
a(n+1) = [x^n](1-x^2)(1+3*x+x^2)^n. - Emanuele Munarini, May 18 2011
From Gary W. Adamson, Jul 21 2011: (Start)
a(n) = upper left term in M^(n-1), M = an infinite square production matrix as follows (with 3,2,2,2,... as the main diagonal):
3, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, ...
1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, ...
1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, ...
1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, ...
...
Alternatively, let M = the previous matrix but change the 3 to a 2. Then a(n) = sum of top row terms of M^(n-1). (End)
a(n) = hypergeometric([1-n,3/2],[3],-4), for n>0. - Peter Luschny, Aug 15 2012
a(n) = GegenbauerC(n-1, -n, -3/2)/n for n >= 1. - Peter Luschny, May 09 2016
E.g.f.: 1 + Integral (exp(3*x) * BesselI(1,2*x) / x) dx. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Jun 01 2020
G.f.: 1 + x/G(0) with G(k) = (1 - 3*x - x^2/G(k+1)) (continued fraction). - Nikolaos Pantelidis, Dec 12 2022
From Peter Bala, Feb 03 2024: (Start)
G.f.: 1 + x/(1 - x) * c(x/(1 - x))^2 = 1 + x/(1 - 5*x) * c(-x/(1 - 5*x))^2, where c(x) = (1 - sqrt(1 - 4*x))/(2*x) is the g.f. of the Catalan numbers A000108.
a(n+1) = Sum_{k = 0..n} binomial(n, k)*Catalan(k+1).
a(n+1) = hypergeom([-n, 3/2], [3], -4).
a(n+1) = 5^n * Sum_{k = 0..n} (-5)^(-k)*binomial(n, k)*Catalan(k+1).
a(n+1) = 5^n * hypergeom([-n, 3/2], [3], 4/5). (End)
EXAMPLE
G.f. = 1 + x + 3*x^2 + 10*x^3 + 36*x^4 + 137*x^5 + 543*x^6 + 2219*x^7 + 9285*x^8 + ...
MAPLE
t1 := series(1+ (1-3*x-(1-x)^(1/2)*(1-5*x)^(1/2))/(2*x), x, 50):
a[0] := 1: a[1] := 1: for n from 2 to 50 do a[n] := (3*(2*n-1)*a[n-1]-5*(n-2)*a[n-2])/(n+1) od: print(convert(a, list)); # Zerinvary Lajos, Jan 01 2007
a := n -> `if`(n=0, 1, simplify(GegenbauerC(n-1, -n, -3/2)/n)):
seq(a(n), n=0..23); # Peter Luschny, May 09 2016
MATHEMATICA
InverseSeries[Series[(y)/(1+3*y+y^2), {y, 0, 24}], x] (* then A(x)=1+y(x) *) (* Len Smiley, Apr 14 2000 *)
(* faster *)
a[0]=1; a[1]=1;
a[n_]/; n>=2 := a[n] = a[n-1] + Sum[a[i]a[n-1-i], {i, 0, n-1}];
Table[a[n], {n, 0, 14}] (* See COMMENTS above, [David Callan, Oct 14 2012] *)
(* fastest *)
s[0]=s[1]=1;
s[n_]/; n>=2 := s[n] = (3(2n-1)s[n-1]-5(n-2)s[n-2])/(n+1);
Table[s[n], {n, 0, 14 }] (* See Deutsch, Munarini, Rinaldi link, [David Callan, Oct 14 2012] *)
(* 2nd fastest *)
a[n_] := Hypergeometric2F1[3/2, 1-n, 3, -4]; a[0]=1; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 14}] (* Jean-François Alcover, May 16 2013 *)
CoefficientList[Series[(1 - x - Sqrt[1 - 6x + 5x^2])/(2x), {x, 0, 20}], x] (* Nikolaos Pantelidis, Jan 30 2023 *)
PROG
(PARI) {a(n) = polcoeff( (1 - x - sqrt(1 - 6*x + 5*x^2 + x^2 * O(x^n))) / 2, n+1)};
(PARI) {a(n) = if( n<1, n==0, polcoeff( serreverse( x / (1 + 3*x + x^2) + x * O(x^n)), n))}; /* Michael Somos */
(PARI) my(N=66, x='x+O('x^N)); Vec((1 - x - sqrt(1-6*x+5*x^2))/(2*x)) \\ Joerg Arndt, Jan 13 2024
(Maxima) makelist(sum(binomial(n, k)*binomial(n-k, k)*3^(n-2*k)/(k+1), k, 0, n/2), n, 0, 24); /* for a(n+1) */ /* Emanuele Munarini, May 18 2011 */
(Sage)
def A002212():
x, y, n = 1, 1, 1
while True:
yield x
n += 1
x, y = y, ((6*n - 3)*y - (5*n - 10)*x) / (n + 1)
a = A002212()
[next(a) for i in range(24)] # Peter Luschny, Oct 12 2013
(Magma) I:= [1, 3]; [1] cat [n le 2 select I[n] else ((6*n-3)*Self(n-1)-5*(n-2)*Self(n-2)) div (n+1): n in [1..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 15 2015
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Ronald C. Read
STATUS
approved