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A114487 Number of Dyck paths of semilength n having no UUDD's starting at level 0. 1
1, 1, 1, 3, 10, 31, 98, 321, 1078, 3686, 12789, 44919, 159407, 570704, 2058817, 7476621, 27310345, 100275628, 369886451, 1370066394, 5093778398, 19002602171, 71109895075, 266855940177, 1004045604976, 3786790901401, 14313706230574 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,4

COMMENTS

Column 0 of A114486.

REFERENCES

A. Sapounakis, I. Tasoulas and P. Tsikouras, Counting strings in Dyck paths, Discrete Math., 307 (2007), 2909-2924.

FORMULA

G.f.=2/[1+2z^2+sqrt(1-4z)].

EXAMPLE

a(3)=3 because we have UDUDUD, UUDUDD and UUUDDD, where U=(1,1), D=(1,-1).

MAPLE

G:=2/(1+2*z^2+sqrt(1-4*z)): Gser:=series(G, z=0, 33): 1, seq(coeff(Gser, z^n), n=1..30);

CROSSREFS

Cf. A114486.

Sequence in context: A068094 A100058 A002160 * A017934 A005510 A005725

Adjacent sequences:  A114484 A114485 A114486 * A114488 A114489 A114490

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Nov 30 2005

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