OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
a(n) = number of permutation tableaux of size n (A000142) for which each row is constant (all 1's, all 0's, or empty). For example, a(4)=19 counts all 4! permutation tableaux of size 4 except the following five: {{0, 1}, {1}}, {{1, 1}, {0, 1}}, {{0, 1}, {1, 1}}, {{1, 0}, {0, 1}}, {{1, 0}, {1, 1}}. - David Callan, Oct 06 2006
a(n) = number of distinct excedance specifications taken over all permutations on [n]. The excedance specification for a permutation (p_1, p_2, ..., p_n) is the sequence (a_1, a_2, ..., a_n) defined by a_i = 1, 0, or -1 according as p_i is greater than, equal to, or less than i. If all permutations with a given excedance specification are arranged in lex (dictionary) order, then the first--and only the first--avoids the pattern set {3142,3412,3421,4312,4321}. - David Callan, Jul 25 2008
a(n) = number of (-1,0,1)-sequences of length n such that the first nonzero entry is 1 and the last nonzero entry is -1 because these sequences are the valid excedance specifications. Example: a(3)=6 counts (1,1,-1), (1,0,-1), (1,-1,0), (1,-1,-1), (0,1,-1), (0,0,0). - David Callan, Jul 25 2008
Inverse binomial transformation leads to 0,1,0,3,3,9,... (offset 0), essentially to A062510. - R. J. Mathar, Jun 25 2011
A128308 is defined as A007318 * A128307; since A007318 is the Riordan array (1/(1-x), x/(1-x)) and A128307 is the Riordan array ((1-x)^2/(1-2x), x), the first column of A128308 has g.f. (1-2x)^2/((1-3x)(1-x)^2), which coincides with the g.f. of this sequence. - Peter J. Taylor, Jul 24 2014
Number of permutations of length n>0 avoiding the partially ordered pattern (POP) {1>2, 1>3, 4>3} of length 4. That is, number of length n permutations having no subsequences of length 4 in which the first element is larger than the second and third elements, and the fourth element is larger than the third element. - Sergey Kitaev, Dec 09 2020
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000 (corrected by Ray Chandler, Jan 19 2019)
M. Albert, R. Aldred, M. Atkinson, C. Handley, D. Holton, D. McCaughan and H. van Ditmarsch, Sorting Classes, Elec. J. of Comb. 12 (2005) R31
Alice L. L. Gao, Sergey Kitaev, On partially ordered patterns of length 4 and 5 in permutations, arXiv:1903.08946 [math.CO], 2019.
Alice L. L. Gao, Sergey Kitaev, On partially ordered patterns of length 4 and 5 in permutations, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 26(3) (2019), P3.26.
Sergey Kitaev and Artem Pyatkin, On permutations avoiding partially ordered patterns defined by bipartite graphs, arXiv:2204.08936 [math.CO], 2022.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (5,-7,3).
FORMULA
a(n) = (3^n-2*n+3)/4.
a(n) = +5*a(n-1) -7*a(n-2) +3*a(n-3). - R. J. Mathar, Jun 25 2011
a(n+1) = sum of row 1 terms of M^n, an infinite bidiagonal matrix with all 1's in the superdiagonal and (1,3,0,0,0,...) in the main diagonal, and the rest zeros. Example: a(5) = 59 = (sum of row 1 terms of M^4) = (1 + 40 + 13 + 4 + 1). - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 23 2011
G.f.: (1-2*x)^2/((1-3*x)*(1-x)^2). - R. J. Mathar, Jun 25 2011
MAPLE
A111277 := proc(n) (3^n-2*n+3)/4 ; end proc:
seq(A111277(n), n=0..30) ; # R. J. Mathar, Jun 25 2011
MATHEMATICA
Table[(3^n - 2n + 3)/4, {n, 26}] (* Robert G. Wilson v *)
PROG
(Magma) [(3^n-2*n+3)/4: n in [1..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 24 2011
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Len Smiley, Nov 01 2005
EXTENSIONS
a(0) and crossref to A128308 added by Peter J. Taylor, Jul 23 2014
STATUS
approved