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A080937 Number of Catalan paths (nonnegative, starting and ending at 0, step +/-1) of 2*n steps with all values <= 5. 15
1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 131, 417, 1341, 4334, 14041, 45542, 147798, 479779, 1557649, 5057369, 16420730, 53317085, 173118414, 562110290, 1825158051, 5926246929, 19242396629, 62479659622, 202870165265, 658715265222, 2138834994142 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

With interpolated zeros (1,0,1,0,2,...), counts closed walks of length n at start or end node of P_6. The sequence (0,1,0,2,...) counts walks of length n between the start and second node. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Jan 26 2005

REFERENCES

P. Duncan and Einar Steingrimsson, Pattern avoidance in ascent sequences, Arxiv preprint arXiv:1109.3641, 2011

Aleksandar Ilic and Andreja Ilic, On the number of restricted Dyck paths, Filomat 25:3 (2011), 191-201; DOI: 10.2298/FIL1103191I, http://operator.pmf.ni.ac.rs/www/pmf/publikacije/filomat/2011/F25-3-2011/F25-3-17.pdf

LINKS

Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (5,-6,1).

FORMULA

a(n) =A080934(n, 5)

G.f.: (1-4*x+3*x^2)/(1-5*x+6*x^2-x^3). - Ralf Stephan (ralf(AT)ark.in-berlin.de), May 13 2003

a(n) = 5*a(n-1)-6*a(n-2)+a(n-3) - Herbert Kociemba (kociemba(AT)t-online.de), Jun 11 2004

a(n)=A096976(2*n) - Floor van Lamoen (fvlamoen(AT)hotmail.com), Nov 02 2005

a(n)=(4/7-4/7*cos(1/7*Pi)^2)*(4*(cos(Pi/7))^2)^n+(1/7-2/7*cos(1/7*Pi)+4/7*cos(1/7*Pi)^2)*(4*(cos(2*Pi/7))^2)^n+(2/7+2/7*cos(1/7*Pi))*(4*(cos(3*Pi/7))^2)^n for n>=0. [From Richard Choulet (richardchoulet(AT)yahoo.fr), Apr 19 2010]

PROG

(PARI) a=vector(99); a[1]=1; a[2]=2; a[3]=5; for(n=4, #a, a[n]=5*a[n-1]-6*a[n-2]+a[n-3]); a \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 10 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000007, A000012, A011782, A001519, A007051, A080937, A024175, A080938, A033191 which essentially provide the same sequence for different limits and tend to A000108.

Cf. A094790, A094789, A005021.

Sequence in context: A148327 A092493 A148328 * A196417 A054392 A006930

Adjacent sequences:  A080934 A080935 A080936 * A080938 A080939 A080940

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Feb 25 2003

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