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A110319 Triangle read by rows: T(n,k) (1<=k<=n) is number of RNA secondary structures of size n (i.e. with n nodes) having k blocks (an RNA secondary structure can be viewed as a restricted noncrossing partition). 2
1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0, 0, 1, 6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 6, 10, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 20, 15, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 10, 50, 21, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 50, 105, 28, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 15, 175, 196, 36, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 105, 490, 336, 45, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 21, 490, 1176, 540, 55, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 196 (list; table; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,9

COMMENTS

Row sums yield the RNA secondary structure numbers (A004148). Column sums yield the Catalan numbers (A000108). A rearrangement of the Narayana numbers triangle (A001263). Sum(k*T(n,k),k=1..n)=A110320(n).

REFERENCES

W. R. Schmitt and M. S. Waterman, Linear trees and RNA secondary structure, Discrete Appl. Math., 51, 317-323, 1994.

P. R. Stein and M. S. Waterman, On some new sequences generalizing the Catalan and Motzkin numbers, Discrete Math., 26, 1978, 261-272.

M. Vauchassade de Chaumont and G. Viennot, Polynomes orthogonaux et problemes d'enumeration en biologie moleculaire, Publ. I.R.M.A. Strasbourg, 1984, 229/S-08, Actes 8e Sem. Lotharingien, pp. 79-86.

FORMULA

T(n, k)=(1/k)*binomial(k, n-k)*binomial(k, n-k+1). G.f.=[1-tz-tz^2-sqrt(1-2tz-2tz^2+t^2*z^2-2t^2*z^3+t^2*z^4)]/[2tz^2].

EXAMPLE

T(5,4)=6 because we have 13/2/4/5, 14/2/3/5. 15/2/3/4, 1/24/3/5, 1/25/3/4 and 1/2/35/4.

MAPLE

T:=(n, k)->(1/k)*binomial(k, n-k)*binomial(k, n-k+1): for n from 1 to 14 do seq(T(n, k), k=1..n) od; # yields sequence in triangular form

CROSSREFS

Cf. A004148, A000108, A001263, A089732, A110320.

Sequence in context: A117389 A122083 A098158 * A036872 A036871 A036876

Adjacent sequences:  A110316 A110317 A110318 * A110320 A110321 A110322

KEYWORD

nonn,tabl

AUTHOR

Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Jul 19 2005

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