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A006150 Number of Dyck paths.
(Formerly M4013)
3
1, 1, 5, 55, 1001, 26026, 884884, 37119160, 1844536720, 105408179176, 6774025632340, 481155055944150, 37259723952950625, 3111129272480118750, 277587585343361452500, 26268551497229678505000 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

a(n) is the determinant of the 4X4 Hankel matrix [a_0, a_1, a_2, a_3 ; a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4 ; a_2, a_3, a_4, a_5 ; a_3, a_4, a_5, a_6] with a_j=A000108(n+j) . - Philippe DELEHAM (kolotoko(AT)wanadoo.fr), Apr 12 2007

REFERENCES

S. J. Cyvin and I. Gutman, Kekule structures in benzenoid hydrocarbons, Lecture Notes in Chemistry, No. 46, Springer, New York, 1988 (see p. 183).

M. de Sainte-Catherine, Couplages et Pfaffiens en Combinatoire. Physique et Informatique. Ph.D Dissertation, Universit\'{e} Bordeaux I, 1983.

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

FORMULA

a(n)=Det[Table[binomial[i+3, j-i+4], {i, 1, n}, {j, 1, n}]] - David Callan (callan(AT)stat.wisc.edu), Jul 20 2005

MAPLE

with (linalg): ctln:= proc(n) option remember; binomial (2*n, n)/ (n+1) end: a:= n-> det (Matrix(4, (i, j)-> ctln (i+j-2+n))): seq (a(n), n=0..20); [From Alois P. Heinz (heinz(AT)hs-heilbronn.de), Sep 10 2008]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A135861 A141361 A203013 * A140049 A130031 A119399

Adjacent sequences:  A006147 A006148 A006149 * A006151 A006152 A006153

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Alois P. Heinz (heinz(AT)hs-heilbronn.de), Sep 10 2008

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