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A075729 Number of different hierarchical orderings that can be formed from n labeled elements: these are divided into groups and the elements in each group are then arranged in a "preferential arrangement" or "weak order" as in A000670. 22
1, 1, 4, 23, 173, 1602, 17575, 222497, 3188806, 50988405, 899222457, 17329515172, 362164300173, 8155216185781, 196789115887252, 5064722539020379, 138457553073641465, 4006059432756066914, 122284085809137076203, 3926775294104305483621, 132313462760902116605534 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

If all indviduals form a single society ("uniparate society"), then the number of different hierarchies for that single society is equal to the ordered Bell number Bell_ordered(n) (A000670).

REFERENCES

Thomas Wieder: The number of certain rankings and hierarchies formed from labeled or unlabeled elements and sets, Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol. 3, 2009, no. 55, 2707 - 2724. [From Thomas Wieder (thomas.wieder(AT)t-online.de), Nov 14 2009]

LINKS

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

INRIA, Algolib: The Algorithms Project's Library

K. A. Penson, P. Blasiak, G. Duchamp, A. Horzela and A. I. Solomon, Hierarchical Dobinski-type relations via substitution and the moment problem [J. Phys. A 37 (2004), 3475-3487]

N. J. A. Sloane and Thomas Wieder, The Number of Hierarchical Orderings, Order 21 (2004), 83-89.

Index entries for sequences related to parenthesizing

P. Flajolet and R. Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics, 2009; see page 571

Kruchinin Vladimir Victorovich, Composition of ordinary generating functions, arXiv:1009.2565

FORMULA

E.g.f.: exp(f(x)-1) where f(x) = 1/(2-exp(x)) = e.g.f. for A000670.

STIRLINGi transform of A000262.

a(n) = (n-1)! * Sum_k=1^n a(n-k)*b(k)/((n-k)!*(k-1)!); a(n) = a(n) + C(n-1, k-1)*a(n-k)*b(k) (where b(n) = A000670(n)). - Thomas Wieder, Dec 31 2002

In Latex notation, a(n) = sum_{ (m_1, m_2, \ldots, m_n)} \frac{ n! \; \prod_{j=1}^{n} B_j^{m_{j}} }{ \prod_{j=1}^{n} m_{j}! \; (j!)^{m_{j}}}, where the sum is over all $(m_1, m_2, \ldots, m_n)$ such that $ sum_{j=1}^{n} j m_j = n$. - Thomas Wieder, May 18, 2003

a(n) is asymptotic to exp(1/(4*ln(2))-3/4)/(2*sqrt(pi*sqrt(2*ln(2))))*n!*exp(-ln(ln(2))*n)*exp(sqrt(2*n/ln(2)))/n^(3/4). Calculated using the Maple package "algolib", using the command "equivalent(exp(1/(2-exp(x))-1), x, n);". - Thomas Wieder, Nov 12 2002

a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} A079641(n,k)*A000110(k). - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Sep 25 2006

a(n)=sum(sum(stirling2(n,k)*k!*binomial(k-1,m-1),k,m,n)/m!,m,1,n) [From Kruchinin Vladimir (kru(AT)ie.tusur.ru), Aug 10 2010]

EXAMPLE

E.g. a(3) = 23: Let the n = 3 indviduals be named 1, 2 and 3. Let a pair of parentheses () indicate a society and let square brackets [] denote a set of disparate societies. Finally, let the ranks be ordered from left to right and separated by a colon, e.g. (1,2:3) is a society with individual 3 on top and indviduals 1 and 2 on the same bottom rank.

Then the hierarchical ordering for n = 3 is composed of the following sets: [(1),(2),(3)], [(1,2)(3)], [(3,2)(1)], [(3,1)(2)], [(1:2)(3)], [(3:2)(1)], [(1:3)(2)], [(2:1)(3)], [(2:3)(1)], [(3:1)(2)], [(3:2:1)], [(1:3:2)], [(2:1:3)], [(1:2:3)], [(3:1:2)], [(2:3:1)], [(1,3:2)], [(3,2:1)], [(2,1:3)], [(3:1,2)],[(1:2,3)],[(2:3,1)] [(1,2,3)].

MAPLE

A075729 := n->n!*exp(1/4/ln(2)-3/4)/2/sqrt(Pi)/(2*ln(2))^(1/4)*exp(-n*ln(ln(2)))*exp(sqrt(2*n/ln(2)))*n^(-3/4);

with(combstruct); SetSeqSetL := [T, {T=Set(S), S=Sequence(U, card >= 1), U=Set(Z, card >=1)}, labeled]; seq(count(SetSeqSetL, size=j), j=1..12);

a(n):=sum(sum(stirling2(n, k)*k!*binomial(k-1, m-1), k, m, n)/m!, m, 1, n) (for Maxima) [From Kruchinin Vladimir (kru(AT)ie.tusur.ru), Aug 10 2010]

MATHEMATICA

Range[0, 20]!CoefficientList[Series[E^(1/(2 - E^x) - 1), {x, 0, 20}], x] (from Robert G. Wilson v Jul 13 2004)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000670, A075744. See A075900 for the unlabeled case.

Sequence in context: A053525 A113869 A084357 * A127131 A083355 A141763

Adjacent sequences:  A075726 A075727 A075728 * A075730 A075731 A075732

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

Thomas Wieder (wieder.thomas(AT)t-online.de) and N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Oct 06 2002

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