OFFSET
0,2
LINKS
Ross La Haye, Binary Relations on the Power Set of an n-Element Set, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 12 (2009), Article 09.2.6.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (10,-35,50,-24).
FORMULA
a(n) = (1/2)(4^n - 2*3^n + 5*2^n - 2) = 3*StirlingS2(n+1,4) + StirlingS2(n+1,3) + 2*StirlingS2(n+1,2) + 1.
G.f.: (1-7*x+13*x^2-x^3)/((1-x)*(1-2*x)*(1-3*x)*(1-4*x)). [Colin Barker, Jul 30 2012]
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 8 because for P(A) = {{},{1},{2},{1,2}} we have for case 0 {{},{1}}, {{},{2}}, {{},{1,2}} and we have for case 1 {{1},{2}} and we have for case 3 {{},{}}, {{1},{1}}, {{2},{2}}, {{1,2},{1,2}}. There are 0 {x,y} of P(A) in this example that fall under case 2.
MATHEMATICA
LinearRecurrence[{10, -35, 50, -24}, {1, 3, 8, 24}, 30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 29 2020 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Ross La Haye, Jan 12 2008
STATUS
approved