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A121244
Number of score vectors for tournaments on n nodes that do not determine the tournament uniquely.
0
0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 11, 41, 136, 437, 1397, 4490, 14554, 47683, 158093, 530265, 1797631, 6153650, 21252343, 73986392, 259434758, 915667537, 3251026851, 11605063370, 41631062856, 150021553132, 542875085143, 1972049524959
OFFSET
1,5
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Score Sequence.
FORMULA
This sequence is the difference between A000571 (Number of different scores that are possible in an n-team round-robin tournament) and A000570 (Number of tournaments on n nodes determined by their score vectors).
EXAMPLE
For n = 3 there are two possible score sequences: {0,1,2} and {1,1,1}. Both of them uniquely define the corresponding tournament. Hence a(3) = 0.
The first occurrence of a sequence that doesn't define a tournament happens for n = 5. There are two such sequences {1,1,2,3,3} and {1,2,2,2,3}. Let's consider the first sequence: {1,1,2,3,3}. Let's take the two best players - the persons with 3 wins - as one of them should win the game with another, there is only one other person who won a game with one of the two best players. It could happen that this player has score 1 or 2. Thus we can get two different tournaments with the same score vector.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A024522 A144841 A203245 * A203574 A070778 A260267
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Tanya Khovanova, Aug 22 2006
STATUS
approved