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A117277 Number of partitions of n whose consecutive parts differ by 3. 0
1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 4, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 1, 3, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 1, 2, 4, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 6 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,5

COMMENTS

Also number of partitions of n such that if k is the largest part, then each of the parts 1,2,...,k-1 occurs exactly 3 times. Example: a(15)=3 because we have [3,3,2,2,2,1,1,1],[2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1] and [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1].

FORMULA

G.f.=sum(x^((3k^2-k)/2)/(1-x^k), k=1..infinity). In general, the generating function for the number of partitions in which consecutive parts differ by d is sum(x^(k(dk-d+2)/2)/(1-x^k), k=1..infinity). For d=0,1 and 2 one obtains A000005,A001227 and A038548, respectively.

EXAMPLE

a(15)=3 because we have [15],[9,6] and [8,5,2].

MAPLE

g:=sum(x^((3*k^2-k)/2)/(1-x^k), k=1..10): gser:=series(g, x=0, 140): seq(coeff(gser, x^n), n=1..135);

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000005, A001227, A038548.

Sequence in context: A003640 A107459 A087976 * A033831 A033105 A106703

Adjacent sequences:  A117274 A117275 A117276 * A117278 A117279 A117280

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Mar 07 2006

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