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A129639 Number of meaningful differential operations of the k-th order on the space R^12. 2
12, 22, 40, 74, 136, 252, 464, 860, 1584, 2936, 5408, 10024, 18464, 34224, 63040, 116848, 215232, 398944, 734848, 1362080, 2508928, 4650432, 8566016, 15877568, 29246208, 54209408, 99852800, 185082496, 340918784, 631911168, 1163969536 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

12,1

COMMENTS

Also (starting 7,12,...) the number of zig-zag paths from top to bottom of a rectangle of width 7. [From Joseph Myers (jsm(AT)polyomino.org.uk), Dec 23 2008]

REFERENCES

B. Malesevic: Some combinatorial aspects of differential operation composition on the space R^n, Univ. Beograd, Publ. Elektrotehn. Fak., Ser. Mat. 9 (1998), 29-33.

LINKS

B. Malesevic, Some combinatorial aspects of differential operation composition on the space R^n

Joseph Myers, BMO 2008--2009 Round 1 Problem 1---Generalisation

FORMULA

f(k+6)=6*f(k+4)-10*f(k+2)+4*f(k)

MAPLE

NUM := proc(k :: integer) local i, j, n, Fun, Identity, v, A; n:=12; # <- DIMENSION Fun:=(i, j)->piecewise(((j=i+1) or (i+j=n+1)), 1, 0); Identity:=(i, j)->piecewise(i=j, 1, 0); v:=matrix(1, n, 1); A:=piecewise(k>1, (matrix(n, n, Fun))^(k-1), k=1, matrix(n, n, Identity)); return(evalm(v&*A&*transpose(v))[1, 1]); end:

CROSSREFS

Cf. A090989-A090995.

Sequence in context: A098955 A124885 A115745 * A153361 A200197 A115709

Adjacent sequences:  A129636 A129637 A129638 * A129640 A129641 A129642

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Branko Malesevic (malesevic(AT)etf.bg.ac.yu), May 31 2007

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Joseph Myers (jsm(AT)polyomino.org.uk), Dec 23 2008

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