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A006366 Number of cyclically symmetric plane partitions in the n-cube; also number of 2n X 2n half-turn symmetric alternating sign matrices divided by number of n X n alternating sign matrices.
(Formerly M1529)
5
1, 2, 5, 20, 132, 1452, 26741, 826540, 42939620, 3752922788, 552176360205, 136830327773400, 57125602787130000, 40191587143536420000, 47663133295107416936400, 95288872904963020131203520, 321195665986577042490185260608 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

In the 1995 Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences this sequence appears twice, as both M1529 and M1530.

REFERENCES

G. E. Andrews, Plane partitions (III): the Weak Macdonald Conjecture, Invent. Math., 53 (1979), 193-225.

D. M. Bressoud, Proofs and Confirmations, Camb. Univ. Press, 1999; Eq. (6.7) on page 198, except the formula given is incorrect. It should be as shown here.

W. F. Lunnon "The Pascal matrix", Fib. Quart. vol. 15 (1977) pp. 201-204.

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

G. Kuperberg, Symmetry classes of alternating-sign matrices under one roof, arXiv math.CO/0008184

P. Di Francesco, P. Zinn-Justin and J.-B. Zuber, Determinant formulae for some tiling problems...

FORMULA

Product( (3*i-1)/(3*i-2) * Product ( (n+i+j-1)/(2*i+j-1), j=i..n), i=1..n).

MAPLE

A006366 := proc(n) local i, j; mul((3*i - 1)*mul((n + i + j - 1)/(2*i + j - 1), j = i .. n)/(3*i - 2), i = 1 .. n) end;

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=prod(i=0, n-1, (3*i+2)*(3*i)!/(n+i)!)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A005130, also A003827, A005156, A005158, A005160-A005164, A048601, A050204.

Sequence in context: A076795 A130293 A156073 * A012317 A118181 A140988

Adjacent sequences:  A006363 A006364 A006365 * A006367 A006368 A006369

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

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

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