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A007559 Triple factorial numbers (3*n-2)!!! with leading 1 added.
(Formerly M3627)
69
1, 1, 4, 28, 280, 3640, 58240, 1106560, 24344320, 608608000, 17041024000, 528271744000, 17961239296000, 664565853952000, 26582634158080000, 1143053268797440000, 52580450364682240000, 2576442067869429760000 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

a(n) = number of increasing quaternary trees on n vertices. (See A001147 for ternary and A000142 for binary trees.) - David Callan (callan(AT)stat.wisc.edu), Mar 30 2007

Starting (1, 4, 28, 280,...) = INVERT transform of A107716: (1, 3, 21,...) [From Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), Oct 22 2009]

a(n) is the product of the positive integers k <= 3*n that have k modulo 3 = 1. - Peter Luschny, Jun 23 2011

See A094638 for connections to differential operators. - Tom Copeland, Sep 20 2011

REFERENCES

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

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..100

W. Lang, On generalizations of Stirling number triangles, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 3 (2000), #00.2.4.

FORMULA

a(n) = product(k=0..n-1, 3*k+1 ).

a(n) = (3*n-2)!!!

E.g.f.: (1-3*x)^(-1/3).

a(n) ~ 2^(1/2)*pi^(1/2)*Gamma(1/3)^-1*n^(-1/6)*3^n*e^-n*n^n*{1 - 1/36*n^-1 - ...}. - Joe Keane (jgk(AT)jgk.org), Nov 22 2001

a(n) = 3^n*Pochhammer(1/3, n).

a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} (-3)^(n-k)*A048994(n, k) .- Philippe DELEHAM (kolotoko(AT)wanadoo.fr), Oct 29 2005

a(n) = n!*(sum(m/n*sum(binomial(k,n-m-k)*(-1/3)^(n-m-k)*binomial(k+n-1,n-1),k,1,n-m),m,1,n)+1), n>1. [From Kruchinin Vladimir (kru(AT)ie.tusur.ru), Aug 09 2010]

Contribution from Gary W. Adamson, Jul 19 2011: (Start)

a(n) = upper left term in M^n, M = a variant of Pascal (1,3) triangle (Cf. A095660); as an infinite square production matrix:

  1, 3, 0, 0, 0,...

  1, 4, 3, 0, 0,...

  1, 5, 7, 3, 0,...

  ...

  a(n+1) = sum of top row terms of M^n. (end)

EXAMPLE

1 + x + 4*x^2 + 28*x^3 + 280*x^4 + 3640*x^5 + 58240*x^6 + 1106560*x^7 + ...

a(3) = 28 and a(4) = 280; with top row of M^3 = (28, 117, 108, 27), sum = 280.

MAPLE

A007559 := n -> mul(k, k = select(k-> k mod 3 = 1, [$1 .. 3*n])): seq(A007559(n), n = 0 .. 17);

- Peter Luschny, Jun 23 2011

MATHEMATICA

a[ n_] := If[ n < 0, 0, Product[k, {k, 1, 3 n - 2, 3}]] (* Michael Somos, Oct 14 2011 *)

PROG

(Maxima) a(n):=if n=1 then 1 else (n)!*(sum(m/n*sum(binomial(k, n-m-k)*(-1/3)^(n-m-k)* binomial (k+n-1, n-1), k, 1, n-m), m, 1, n)+1);  [From Kruchinin Vladimir (kru(AT)ie.tusur.ru), Aug 09 2010]

(PARI) {a(n) = if( n<0, 0, prod(k=0, n-1, 3*k + 1))} /* Michael Somos, Oct 14 2011 */

(Pari) x='x+O('x^33); /* that many terms */

Vec(serlaplace((1-3*x)^(-1/3))) /* show terms */ /* Joerg Arndt, Apr 24 2011 */

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001147, A004987, A032031, A008544, A051141. a(n)= A035469(n, 1), n >= 1, (first column of triangle A035469(n, m)).

Cf. A107716 [From Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), Oct 22 2009]

Cf. A095660 [From Gary W. Adamson, Jul 19 2011]

Sequence in context: A032274 A182964 A178599 * A138208 A071212 A090353

Adjacent sequences:  A007556 A007557 A007558 * A007560 A007561 A007562

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Better description from Wolfdieter Lang (wolfdieter.lang(AT)physik.uni-karlsruhe.de).

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