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A097692 Triangle read by rows: a(n,k) = number of paths of n upsteps U and n downsteps D that contain k UDUs. 2
1, 2, 4, 2, 10, 8, 2, 26, 30, 12, 2, 70, 104, 60, 16, 2, 192, 350, 260, 100, 20, 2, 534, 1152, 1050, 520, 150, 24, 2, 1500, 3738, 4032, 2450, 910, 210, 28, 2, 4246, 12000, 14952, 10752, 4900, 1456, 280, 32, 2 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

See A091869 for the distribution of the parameter "number of UDUs" on Dyck paths.

REFERENCES

Aristidis Sapounakis, Panagiotis Tsikouras, Ioannis Tasoulas, Kostas Manes, Strings of Length 3 in Grand-Dyck Paths and the Chung-Feller Property, Electr. J. Combinatorics, 19 (2012), #P2. - From N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 06 2013

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..45.

FORMULA

G.f. ((1 + x - x*y)/(1 - 3*x - x*y))^(1/2) = Sum_{n>=0, k>=0} a(n, k) x^n y^k.

EXAMPLE

Table begins

\ k 0, 1, 2, ...

n

0 | 1

1 | 2

2 | 4, 2

3 | 10, 8, 2

4 | 26, 30, 12, 2

5 | 70, 104, 60, 16, 2

6 |192, 350, 260, 100, 20, 2

7 |534, 1152, 1050, 520, 150, 24, 2

The path UDUDUD contains 2 UDUs and a(2,1) = 2 because each of UDUD, DUDU

contains one UDU.

MATHEMATICA

gfForBalancedByNumberUDU=Sqrt[(1 + x - x*y)/(1 - 3*x - x*y)]; Map[CoefficientList[ #, y]&, CoefficientList[Normal[Series[gfForBalancedByNumberUDU, {x, 0, 8}, {y, 0, 8}]], x]]

CROSSREFS

Column k=0 is A025565. The row sums are the (even) central binomial coefficients A000984.

Sequence in context: A086930 A099585 A097577 * A118920 A162982 A125755

Adjacent sequences:  A097689 A097690 A097691 * A097693 A097694 A097695

KEYWORD

nonn,tabf

AUTHOR

David Callan, Aug 19 2004; corrected Jun 10 2005

EXTENSIONS

Keyword tabl changed to tabf by Michel Marcus, Apr 07 2013

STATUS

approved

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