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A002849 Number of partitions of a subset of {1, 2, ..., n} into triples (X,Y,Z) each satisfying X+Y=Z, with the maximal possible number of such triples.
(Formerly M0980 N0368)
4
1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 10, 25, 12, 42, 8, 40, 204, 21, 135, 1002, 4228, 720, 5134, 29546, 4079, 35533, 3040, 28777, 281504, 20505, 212283, 2352469, 16907265, 1669221 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,4

REFERENCES

R. K. Guy, ``Sedlacek's Conjecture on Disjoint Solutions of x+y= z,'' Univ. Calgary, Dept. Mathematics, Research Paper No. 129, 1971.

R. K. Guy, ``Sedlacek's Conjecture on Disjoint Solutions of x+y= z,'' in Proc. Conf. Number Theory. Pullman, WA, 1971, pp. 221-223.

R. K. Guy, ``Packing [ 1,n ] with solutions of ax + by = cz; the unity of combinatorics,'' in Colloq. Internaz. Teorie Combinatorie. Rome, 1973, Atti Conv. Lincei. Vol. 17, Part II, pp. 173-179, 1976.

Richard K. Guy, The unity of combinatorics, in Proc. 25th Iran. Math. Conf., Tehran, (1994), Math. Appl. 329 (1994) 129-159, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, 1995.

Nigel Martin, Solving a conjecture of Sedlacek: maximal edge sets in the 3-uniform sumset hypergraphs, Discrete Mathematics, Volume 125, 1994, pp. 273-277.

R. J. Nowakowski, Generalizations of the Langford-Skolem problem, M.S. Thesis, Dept. Math., Univ. Calgary, May 1975. [From N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 30 2011]

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).

EXAMPLE

For m = 1 the unique solution is 1 + 2 = 3.

For m = 4 there are 8 solutions:

1.5..6.|.1.5..6..|.2..5..7.|.1..6..7

2.8.10.|.3.7.10..|.3..6..9.|.4..5..9

4.7.11.|.2.9.11..|.1.10.11.|.3..8.11

3.9.12.|.4.8.12..|.4..8.12.|.2.10.12

------------------------------------

2.4..6.|.2..6..8.|.3..4..7.|.3..5..8

1.9.10.|.4..5..9.|.1..8..9.|.2..7..9

3.8.11.|.3..7.10.|.5..6.11.|.4..6.10

5.7.12.|.1.11.12.|.2.10.12.|.1.11.12

PROG

(PARI program from Franklin T. Adams-Watters)

nxyz(v, t)={local(n, r, x2); r=0;

if(t==0, return(1));

for(i3=3*t, #v,

n=v[i3];

for(i1=1, i3-2,

x2=n-v[i1];

if(x2<=v[i1], break);

for(i2=i1+1, i3-1,

if(v[i2]>=x2,

if(v[i2]==x2,

r+=nxyz(vector(i3-3, k, v[if(k<i1, k, if(k<i2-1, k+1, k+2))]), t-1));

break))));

r}

a(n)=nxyz(vector(n, k, k), n\3-(n%12==6|n%12==9))

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002848, A108235, A161826.

Sequence in context: A122280 A057063 A108236 * A163234 A072984 A018841

Adjacent sequences:  A002846 A002847 A002848 * A002850 A002851 A002852

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Feb 10 2010, based on posting to the Sequence Fans Mailing List by Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Richard K. Guy, R. H. Hardin, Alois Heinz, Andrew Weimholt, Max Alekseyev and others.

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