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A056431 Number of step cyclic shifted sequence structures using a maximum of four different symbols. 4
1, 2, 3, 7, 7, 33, 29, 149, 245, 1230, 1665, 15973, 18199, 134482, 376433, 1415209, 2634597, 26534612, 33499359, 287002711, 727425501, 3332040944, 5794658931, 61120855045, 93825569009, 601444738252 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
See A056371 for an explanation of step shifts. Under step cyclic shifts, abcde, bdace, bcdea, cdeab and daceb etc. are equivalent. Permuting the symbols will not change the structure.
REFERENCES
M. R. Nester (1999). Mathematical investigations of some plant interaction designs. PhD Thesis. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. [See A056391 for pdf file of Chap. 2]
LINKS
FORMULA
Use de Bruijn's generalization of Polya's enumeration theorem as discussed in reference.
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..4} A288627(n, k). - Andrew Howroyd, Jun 13 2017
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A281909 A083809 A092967 * A281947 A199466 A199966
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved

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