OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
For n >= 2, a(n) is the number of permutations p on the set [n] with the properties that abs(p(i)-i) <= 3 for all i and p(j) <= 2+j for j = 1,2.
For n >= 2, a(n) is also the permanent of the n X n matrix that has ones on its diagonal, ones on its three superdiagonals, ones on its three subdiagonals (with the exception of zeros in the (4,1) and (5,2)-entries), and is zero elsewhere.
This is row 3 of Kløve's Table 3.
REFERENCES
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
Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Torleiv Kløve, 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.
R. Lagrange, Quelques résultats dans la métrique des permutations, Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 79 (1962), 199-241.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2, 2, 0, 10, 8, -2, -16, -10, -2, 4, 2, 0, 2, 1).
FORMULA
G.f.: 2*x^2 * (x^4+x^3-x^2-x-1) / (x^14+2*x^13+2*x^11 +4*x^10 -2*x^9 -10*x^8 -16*x^7-2*x^6 +8*x^5+10*x^4 +2*x^2+2*x-1). - Alois P. Heinz, Apr 08 2011
MAPLE
MATHEMATICA
a[n_] := If [n <= 1, 0, Permanent[Table[If[Abs[j-i]<4 && {i, j} != {4, 1} && {i, j} != {5, 2}, 1, 0], {i, 1, n}, {j, 1, n}]]]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 30}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 12 2014, after Maple *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Name and comments edited and terms a(12)-a(30) from Nathaniel Johnston, Apr 08 2011
STATUS
approved