OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
This automorphism of binary trees first swaps the left and right subtree of the root and then proceeds recursively to the (new) right subtree, to do the same operation there. This is one of those Catalan bijections which extend to a unique automorphism of the infinite binary tree, which in this case is A153141. See further comments there.
This bijection, Knick, is a SPINE-transformation of the simple swap: SPINE(*A069770) (i.e., row 1 of A122203). Furthermore, Knick and Knack (the inverse, *A069768) have a special property, that FORK and KROF transforms (explained in A122201 and A122202) transform them to their own inverses, i.e., to each other: FORK(Knick) = KROF(Knick) = Knack and FORK(Knack) = KROF(Knack) = Knick, thus this occurs also as a row 1 in A122287 and naturally, the double-fork fixes both, e.g., FORK(FORK(Knick)) = Knick. There are also other peculiar properties.
Note: the name in Finnish is "Niks".
REFERENCES
A. Karttunen, paper in preparation.
LINKS
PROG
CROSSREFS
Inverse permutation: "Knack", A069768. "n-th powers" (i.e. n-fold applications), from n=2 to 6: A073290, A073292, A073294, A073296, A073298.
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Antti Karttunen, Apr 16 2002; entry revised Dec 20 2008
STATUS
approved