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A014523 Number of Hamiltonian paths in a 4 X (2n+1) grid. 0
1, 4, 20, 111, 624, 3505, 19676, 110444, 619935, 3479776, 19532449, 109638260, 615414276, 3454402959, 19390027600, 108838828241, 610926955724, 3429215026140, 19248644351551, 108045225087424, 606472354675265 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

REFERENCES

K. L. Collins and L. B. Krompart, The number of Hamiltonian paths in a rectangular grid, Discrete Math. 169 (1997), 29-38.

Michael Dougherty, Christopher French, Benjamin Saderholm, and Wenyang Qian, Hankel Transforms of Linear Combinations of Catalan Numbers, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 14 (2011), Article 11.5.1

LINKS

Index entries for two-way infinite sequences

FORMULA

G.f.: (1-3x+x^2)/(1-7x+9x^2-7x^3+x^4). a(n)=7a(n-1)-9a(n-2)+7a(n-3)-a(n-4)=-a(-2-n).

PROG

(PARI) {a(n)= if(n<-1, -a(-2-n), polcoeff( (1-3*x+x^2)/ (1-7*x+9*x^2-7*x^3+x^4) +x*O(x^n), n))} /* Michael Somos Jun 14 2003 */

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A158827 A026156 A025183 * A153299 A081335 A136783

Adjacent sequences:  A014520 A014521 A014522 * A014524 A014525 A014526

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

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