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A033282
Triangle read by rows: T(n, k) is the number of diagonal dissections of a convex n-gon into k+1 regions.
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1, 1, 2, 1, 5, 5, 1, 9, 21, 14, 1, 14, 56, 84, 42, 1, 20, 120, 300, 330, 132, 1, 27, 225, 825, 1485, 1287, 429, 1, 35, 385, 1925, 5005, 7007, 5005, 1430, 1, 44, 616, 4004, 14014, 28028, 32032, 19448, 4862, 1, 54, 936, 7644, 34398, 91728, 148512, 143208, 75582, 16796
OFFSET
3,3
COMMENTS
T(n+3, k) is also the number of compatible k-sets of cluster variables in Fomin and Zelevinsky's cluster algebra of finite type A_n. Take a row of this triangle regarded as a polynomial in x and rewrite as a polynomial in y := x+1. The coefficients of the polynomial in y give a row of the triangle of Narayana numbers A001263. For example, x^2 + 5*x + 5 = y^2 + 3*y + 1. - Paul Boddington, Mar 07 2003
Number of standard Young tableaux of shape (k+1,k+1,1^(n-k-3)), where 1^(n-k-3) denotes a sequence of n-k-3 1's (see the Stanley reference).
Number of k-dimensional 'faces' of the n-dimensional associahedron (see Simion, p. 168). - Mitch Harris, Jan 16 2007
Mirror image of triangle A126216. - Philippe Deléham, Oct 19 2007
For relation to Lagrange inversion or series reversion and the geometry of associahedra or Stasheff polytopes (and other combinatorial objects) see A133437. - Tom Copeland, Sep 29 2008
Row generating polynomials 1/(n+1)*Jacobi_P(n,1,1,2*x+1). Row n of this triangle is the f-vector of the simplicial complex dual to an associahedron of type A_n [Fomin & Reading, p. 60]. See A001263 for the corresponding array of h-vectors for associahedra of type A_n. See A063007 and A080721 for the f-vectors for associahedra of type B and type D respectively. - Peter Bala, Oct 28 2008
f-vectors of secondary polytopes for Grobner bases for optimization and integer programming (see De Loera et al. and Thomas). - Tom Copeland, Oct 11 2011
From Devadoss and O'Rourke's book: The Fulton-MacPherson compactification of the configuration space of n free particles on a line segment with a fixed particle at each end is the n-Dim Stasheff associahedron whose refined f-vector is given in A133437 which reduces to A033282. - Tom Copeland, Nov 29 2011
Diagonals of A132081 are rows of A033282. - Tom Copeland, May 08 2012
The general results on the convolution of the refined partition polynomials of A133437, with u_1 = 1 and u_n = -t otherwise, can be applied here to obtain results of convolutions of these polynomials. - Tom Copeland, Sep 20 2016
The signed triangle t(n, k) =(-1)^k* T(n+2, k-1), n >= 1, k = 1..n, seems to be obtainable from the partition array A111785 (in Abramowitz-Stegun order) by adding the entries corresponding to the partitions of n with the number of parts k. E.g., triangle t, row n=4: -1, (6+3) = 9, -21, 14. - Wolfdieter Lang, Mar 17 2017
The preceding conjecture by Lang is true. It is implicit in Copeland's 2011 comments in A086810 on the relations among a gf and its compositional inverse for that entry and inversion through A133437 (a differently normalized version of A111785), whose integer partitions are the same as those for A134685. (An inversion pair in Copeland's 2008 formulas below can also be used to prove the conjecture.) In addition, it follows from the relation between the inversion formula of A111785/A133437 and the enumeration of distinct faces of associahedra. See the MathOverflow link concernimg Loday and the Aguiar and Ardila reference in A133437 for proofs of the relations between the partition polynomials for inversion and enumeration of the distinct faces of the A_n associahedra, or Stasheff polytopes. - Tom Copeland, Dec 21 2017
The rows seem to give (up to sign) the coefficients in the expansion of the integer-valued polynomial (x+1)*(x+2)^2*(x+3)^2*...*(x+n)^2*(x+n+1)/(n!*(n+1)!) in the basis made of the binomial(x+i,i). - F. Chapoton, Oct 07 2022
Chapoton's observation above is correct: the precise expansion is (x+1)*(x+2)^2*(x+3)^2*...*(x+n)^2*(x+n+1)/ (n!*(n+1)!) = Sum_{k = 0..n-1} (-1)^k*T(n+2,n-k-1)*binomial(x+2*n-k,2*n-k), as can be verified using the WZ algorithm. For example, n = 4 gives (x+1)*(x+2)^2*(x+3)^2*(x+4)^2*(x+5)/(4!*5!) = 14*binomial(x+8,8) - 21*binomial(x+7,7) + 9*binomial(x+6,6) - binomial(x+5,5). - Peter Bala, Jun 24 2023
REFERENCES
S. Devadoss and J. O'Rourke, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Princeton Univ. Press, 2011 (See p. 241.)
Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1994. Exercise 7.50, pages 379, 573.
T. K. Petersen, Eulerian Numbers, Birkhauser, 2015, Section 5.8.
LINKS
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Paul Barry, On the Inverses of a Family of Pascal-Like Matrices Defined by Riordan Arrays, Journal of Integer Sequences, 16 (2013), #13.5.6.
Paul Barry, Three Études on a sequence transformation pipeline, arXiv:1803.06408 [math.CO], 2018.
Paul Barry, On the f-Matrices of Pascal-like Triangles Defined by Riordan Arrays, arXiv:1805.02274 [math.CO], 2018.
Paul Barry, Generalized Catalan Numbers Associated with a Family of Pascal-like Triangles, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 22 (2019), Article 19.5.8.
Karin Baur and P. P. Martin, The fibres of the Scott map on polygon tilings are the flip equivalence classes, arXiv:1601.05080 [math.CO], 2016.
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A. Cayley, On the partitions of a polygon, Proc. London Math. Soc., 22 (1891), 237-262 = Collected Mathematical Papers. Vols. 1-13, Cambridge Univ. Press, London, 1889-1897, Vol. 13, pp. 93ff. (See p. 239.)
Adrian Celestino and Yannic Vargas, Schröder trees, antipode formulas and non-commutative probability, arXiv:2311.07824 [math.CO], 2023.
F. Chapoton, Enumerative properties of generalized associahedra, Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B51b (2004), 16 pp.
Manosij Ghosh Dastidar and Michael Wallner, Bijections and congruences involving lattice paths and integer compositions, arXiv:2402.17849 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 16.
J. De Loera, J. Rambau, and F. Leal, Triangulations of Point Sets [From Tom Copeland Oct 11 2011]
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Brian Drake, Ira M. Gessel, and Guoce Xin, Three Proofs and a Generalization of the Goulden-Litsyn-Shevelev Conjecture on a Sequence Arising in Algebraic Geometry, J. of Integer Sequences, Vol. 10 (2007), Article 07.3.7.
Cassandra Durell and Stefan Forcey, Level-1 Phylogenetic Networks and their Balanced Minimum Evolution Polytopes, arXiv:1905.09160 [math.CO], 2019.
P. Flajolet and M. Noy, Analytic Combinatorics of Non-crossing Configurations, Discrete Math., 204, 1999, 203-229.
S. Fomin and N. Reading, Root systems and generalized associahedra, Lecture notes for IAS/Park-City 2004, arXiv:math/0505518 [math.CO], 2005-2008. [From Peter Bala, Oct 28 2008]
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S. Fomin and A. Zelevinsky, Y-systems and generalized associahedra, Ann. of Math. (2) 158 (2003), no. 3, 977-1018.
Ivan Geffner, Marc Noy, Counting Outerplanar Maps, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 24(2) (2017), #P2.3.
Rijun Huang, Fei Teng, and Bo Feng, Permutation in the CHY-Formulation, arXiv:1801.08965 [hep-th], 2018.
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FORMULA
G.f. G = G(t, z) satisfies (1+t)*G^2 - z*(1-z-2*t*z)*G + t*z^4 = 0.
T(n, k) = binomial(n-3, k)*binomial(n+k-1, k)/(k+1) for n >= 3, 0 <= k <= n-3.
From Tom Copeland, Nov 03 2008: (Start)
Two g.f.s (f1 and f2) for A033282 and their inverses (x1 and x2) can be derived from the Drake and Barry references.
1. a: f1(x,t) = y = {1 - (2t+1) x - sqrt[1 - (2t+1) 2x + x^2]}/[2x (t+1)] = t x + (t + 2 t^2) x^2 + (t + 5 t^2 + 5 t^3) x^3 + ...
b: x1 = y/[t + (2t+1)y + (t+1)y^2] = y {1/[t/(t+1) + y] - 1/(1+y)} = (y/t) - (1+2t)(y/t)^2 + (1+ 3t + 3t^2)(y/t)^3 +...
2. a: f2(x,t) = y = {1 - x - sqrt[(1-x)^2 - 4xt]}/[2(t+1)] = (t/(t+1)) x + t x^2 + (t + 2 t^2) x^3 + (t + 5 t^2 + 5 t^3) x^4 + ...
b: x2 = y(t+1) [1- y(t+1)]/[t + y(t+1)] = (t+1) (y/t) - (t+1)^3 (y/t)^2 + (t+1)^4 (y/t)^3 + ...
c: y/x2(y,t) = [t/(t+1) + y] / [1- y(t+1)] = t/(t+1) + (1+t) y + (1+t)^2 y^2 + (1+t)^3 y^3 + ...
x2(y,t) can be used along with the Lagrange inversion for an o.g.f. (A133437) to generate A033282 and show that A133437 is a refinement of A033282, i.e., a refinement of the f-polynomials of the associahedra, the Stasheff polytopes.
y/x2(y,t) can be used along with the indirect Lagrange inversion (A134264) to generate A033282 and show that A134264 is a refinement of A001263, i.e., a refinement of the h-polynomials of the associahedra.
f1[x,t](t+1) gives a generator for A088617.
f1[xt,1/t](t+1) gives a generator for A060693, with inverse y/[1 + t + (2+t) y + y^2].
f1[x(t-1),1/(t-1)]t gives a generator for A001263, with inverse y/[t + (1+t) y + y^2].
The unsigned coefficients of x1(y t,t) are A074909, reverse rows of A135278. (End)
G.f.: 1/(1-x*y-(x+x*y)/(1-x*y/(1-(x+x*y)/(1-x*y/(1-(x+x*y)/(1-x*y/(1-.... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Feb 06 2009
Let h(t) = (1-t)^2/(1+(u-1)*(1-t)^2) = 1/(u + 2*t + 3*t^2 + 4*t^3 + ...), then a signed (n-1)-th row polynomial of A033282 is given by u^(2n-1)*(1/n!)*((h(t)*d/dt)^n) t, evaluated at t=0, with initial n=2. The power series expansion of h(t) is related to A181289 (cf. A086810). - Tom Copeland, Sep 06 2011
With a different offset, the row polynomials equal 1/(1 + x)*Integral_{0..x} R(n,t) dt, where R(n,t) = Sum_{k = 0..n} binomial(n,k)*binomial(n+k,k)*t^k are the row polynomials of A063007. - Peter Bala, Jun 23 2016
n-th row polynomial = ( LegendreP(n-1,2*x + 1) - LegendreP(n-3,2*x + 1) )/((4*n - 6)*x*(x + 1)), n >= 3. - Peter Bala, Feb 22 2017
n*T(n+1, k) = (4n-6)*T(n, k-1) + (2n-3)*T(n, k) - (n-3)*T(n-1, k) for n >= 4. - Fang Lixing, May 07 2019
EXAMPLE
The triangle T(n, k) begins:
n\k 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
3: 1
4: 1 2
5: 1 5 5
6: 1 9 21 14
7: 1 14 56 84 42
8: 1 20 120 300 330 132
9: 1 27 225 825 1485 1287 429
10: 1 35 385 1925 5005 7007 5005 1430
11: 1 44 616 4004 14014 28028 32032 19448 4862
12: 1 54 936 7644 34398 91728 148512 143208 75582 16796
... reformatted. - Wolfdieter Lang, Mar 17 2017
MAPLE
T:=(n, k)->binomial(n-3, k)*binomial(n+k-1, k)/(k+1): seq(seq(T(n, k), k=0..n-3), n=3..12); # Muniru A Asiru, Nov 24 2018
MATHEMATICA
t[n_, k_] = Binomial[n-3, k]*Binomial[n+k-1, k]/(k+1);
Flatten[Table[t[n, k], {n, 3, 12}, {k, 0, n-3}]][[1 ;; 52]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jun 16 2011 *)
PROG
(PARI) Q=(1+z-(1-(4*w+2+O(w^20))*z+z^2+O(z^20))^(1/2))/(2*(1+w)*z); for(n=3, 12, for(m=1, n-2, print1(polcoef(polcoef(Q, n-2, z), m, w), ", "))) \\ Hugo Pfoertner, Nov 19 2018
(PARI) for(n=3, 12, for(k=0, n-3, print1(binomial(n-3, k)*binomial(n+k-1, k)/(k+1), ", "))) \\ G. C. Greubel, Nov 19 2018
(Magma) [[Binomial(n-3, k)*Binomial(n+k-1, k)/(k+1): k in [0..(n-3)]]: n in [3..12]]; // G. C. Greubel, Nov 19 2018
(Sage) [[ binomial(n-3, k)*binomial(n+k-1, k)/(k+1) for k in (0..(n-3))] for n in (3..12)] # G. C. Greubel, Nov 19 2018
CROSSREFS
Cf. diagonals: A000012, A000096, A033275, A033276, A033277, A033278, A033279; A000108, A002054, A002055, A002056, A007160, A033280, A033281; row sums: A001003 (Schroeder numbers, first term omitted). See A086810 for another version.
A007160 is a diagonal. Cf. A001263.
With leading zero: A086810.
Cf. A019538 'faces' of the permutohedron.
Cf. A063007 (f-vectors type B associahedra), A080721 (f-vectors type D associahedra), A126216 (mirror image).
Cf. A248727 for a relation to f-polynomials of simplices.
Cf. A111785 (contracted partition array, unsigned; see a comment above).
Antidiagonal sums give A005043. - Jordan Tirrell, Jun 01 2017
Sequence in context: A021468 A209830 A209695 * A126350 A204111 A079502
KEYWORD
nonn,tabl,easy
EXTENSIONS
Missing factor of 2 for expansions of f1 and f2 added by Tom Copeland, Apr 12 2009
STATUS
approved