login
This site is supported by donations to The OEIS Foundation.
Logo

Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A002526 Number of permutations of length n within distance 3 of a fixed permutation.
(Formerly M1671 N0657)
20
1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 78, 230, 675, 2069, 6404, 19708, 60216, 183988, 563172, 1725349, 5284109, 16177694, 49526506, 151635752, 464286962, 1421566698, 4352505527, 13326304313, 40802053896, 124926806216, 382497958000, 1171122069784 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

For positive n, a(n) equals the permanent of the nXn matrix with 1's along the seven central diagonals, and 0's everywhere else. [From John M. Campbell, Jul 09 2011]

REFERENCES

R. Lagrange, Quelques re'sultats dans la me'trique des permutations, Annales Scientifiques de l'\'{E}cole Normale Sup\'{e}rieure, Paris, 79 (1962), 199-241.

D. H. Lehmer, Permutations with strongly restricted displacements. Combinatorial theory and its applications, II (Proc. Colloq., Balatonfured, 1969), pp. 755-770. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.

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).

LINKS

R. H. Hardin, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..400, Jul 11 2010

Torleiv Klove, Spheres of Permutations under the Infinity Norm - Permutations with limited displacement. Reports in Informatics, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway, no. 376, November 2008. (Table 3, top row)

R. Lagrange, Quelques re'sultats dans la me'trique des permutations, Annales Scientifiques de l'\'{E}cole Normale Sup\'{e}rieure, Paris, 79 (1962), 199-241.

Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,2,0,10,8,-2,-16,-10,-2,4,2,0,2,1).

FORMULA

G.f.: (1-x-2*x^2-2*x^4+x^7+x^8)/(1-2*x-2*x^2-10*x^4-8*x^5+2*x^6+16*x^7+10*x^8+2*x^9-4*x^10-2*x^11-2*x^13-x^14)

a(0)=1, a(1)=1, a(2)=2, a(3)=6, a(4)=24, a(5)=78, a(6)=230, a(7)=675, a(8)=2069, a(9)=6404, a(10)=19708, a(11)=60216, a(12)=183988, a(13)=563172, a(n)=2*a(n-1)+2*a(n-2)+10*a(n-4)+8*a(n-5)- 2*a(n-6)- 16*a(n-7)- 10*a(n-8)-2*a(n-9)+4*a(n-10)+2*a(n-11)+2*a(n-13)+a(n-14) [From Harvey P. Dale, June 22 2011]

MATHEMATICA

CoefficientList[Series[(1-x-2x^2-2x^4+x^7+x^8)/(1-2x-2x^2-10x^4-8x^5+ 2x^6+ 16x^7+10x^8+2x^9-4x^10-2x^11-2x^13-x^14), {x, 0, 50}], x] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[{2, 2, 0, 10, 8, -2, -16, -10, -2, 4, 2, 0, 2, 1}, {1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 78, 230, 675, 2069, 6404, 19708, 60216, 183988, 563172}, 51] (* From Harvey P. Dale, June 22 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) Vec((1-x-2*x^2-2*x^4+x^7+x^8)/(1-2*x-2*x^2-10*x^4-8*x^5+2*x^6+16*x^7+10*x^8+2*x^9-4*x^10-2*x^11-2*x^13-x^14)+O(x^99)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 16, 2011

CROSSREFS

The 14 sequences in Klove's Table 3 are A002526, A002527, A002529, A188379, A188491, A188492, A188493, A188494, A002528, A188495, A188496, A188497, A188498, A002526.

Cf. A002524.

Sequence in context: A147938 A147929 A147921 * A117665 A068777 A095110

Adjacent sequences:  A002523 A002524 A002525 * A002527 A002528 A002529

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
Recent Additions | More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement .

Last modified February 13 08:12 EST 2012. Contains 205451 sequences.