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A005161 Number of alternating sign 2n+1 X 2n+1 matrices symmetric with respect to both horizontal and vertical axes.
(Formerly M1700)
1
1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 33, 286, 4420, 109820, 4799134, 340879665, 42235307100, 8564558139000 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,4

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

R. P. Stanley, A baker's dozen of conjectures concerning plane partitions, pp. 285-293 of "Combinatoire Enumerative (Montreal 1985)", Lect. Notes Math. 1234, 1986.

LINKS

I. Gessel and G. Xin, The generating function of ternary trees and continued fractions

P. Pyatov, Raise and Peel Models of fluctuating interfaces and combinatorics of Pascal's hexagon. [From Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Aug 15 2008]

D. P. Robbins, Symmetry classes of alternating sign matrices, arXiv:math.CO/0008045

FORMULA

Robbins gives a simple (conjectured) formula.

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A053042 A174432 A012874 * A062970 A088125 A064940

Adjacent sequences:  A005158 A005159 A005160 * A005162 A005163 A005164

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,more

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms (from the P. Pyatov paper) from Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Aug 15 2008

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