login
This site is supported by donations to The OEIS Foundation.
Logo

Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A059760 a(n) is the number of edges (one-dimensional faces) in the convex polytope of real n X n doubly stochastic matrices. The vertices are the n! permutation matrices. If A(p1) and A(p2) are two permutation matrices corresponding to permutations p1 and p2 the closed interval between these two matrices forms an edge of the polytope iff the permutation p1*(p2^-1) is a cycle, i.e. its cycle decomposition in the symmetric group S_n contains exactly one nontrivial cycle. 11
0, 1, 15, 240, 5040, 147240, 5959800, 323850240, 22800476160, 2017745251200, 219066851203200, 28615863103027200, 4425987756321331200, 799788468703877452800, 166940001463941433728000 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

FORMULA

a(n) = 1/2* n! * (Sum k=2...n C(n, k)*(k-1)!)

EXAMPLE

a(3) = 15 because there are 3! = 6 vertices and C(6,2) intervals and in this case all are edges so a(3) = C(6,2) = 15

MAPLE

with(combinat): for n from 1 to 30 do printf(`%d, `, 1/2* n! * sum(binomial(n, k)*(k-1)!, k=2..n)) od:

CROSSREFS

Cf. A059615.

Note that b(n) = (Sum k=2...n C(n, k)*(k-1)!) gives sequence A006231.

Sequence in context: A090411 A154806 A133199 * A059615 A163031 A065920

Adjacent sequences:  A059757 A059758 A059759 * A059761 A059762 A059763

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Noam Katz (noamkj(AT)hotmail.com), Feb 20 2001

EXTENSIONS

More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Feb 21 2001

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
Recent Additions | More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement .

Last modified February 14 09:18 EST 2012. Contains 205614 sequences.