OFFSET
0,7
COMMENTS
A skew Dyck path is a path in the first quadrant which begins at the origin, ends on the x-axis, consists of steps U=(1,1)(up), D=(1,-1)(down) and L=(-1,-1)(left) so that up and left steps do not overlap. The length of the path is defined to be the number of its steps. A primitive Dyck factor is a subpath of the form UPD that starts on the x-axis, P being a Dyck path.
Row sums yield A002212.
LINKS
E. Deutsch, E. Munarini, S. Rinaldi, Skew Dyck paths, J. Stat. Plann. Infer. 140 (8) (2010) 2192-2203.
FORMULA
EXAMPLE
T(4,2)=6 because we have (UD)(UD)UUDL, (UD)(UUDUDD), (UD)(UUUDDD), (UUDD)(UUDD), (UUDUDD)(UD) and (UUUDDD)(UD) (the primitive Dyck factors are shown between parentheses).
Triangle starts:
1;
0, 1;
1, 1, 1;
4, 3, 2, 1;
15, 11, 6, 3, 1;
MAPLE
G:=(3-3*z-sqrt(1-6*z+5*z^2))/(2-t+z+(t-1)*sqrt(1-4*z)+sqrt(1-6*z+5*z^2)): Gser:=simplify(series(G, z=0, 14)): for n from 0 to 11 do P[n]:=sort(coeff(Gser, z, n)) od: for n from 0 to 11 do seq(coeff(P[n], t, j), j=0..n) od; # yields sequence in triangular form
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,tabl
AUTHOR
Emeric Deutsch, Apr 02 2007
STATUS
approved