OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Also, the number of chains in the power set of (n^2-n)/2-elements such that the first term of the chains is either an empty set or a set of (n^2-n)/2-elements.
The number of rooted chains of 2-element subsets of {0,1, 2, ..., n} that contain no consecutive integers.
The number of distinct rooted reflexive symmetric fuzzy matrices of order n.
The number of chains in the set consisting of all n X n reflexive symmetric matrices such that the first term of the chains is either reflexive symmetric matrix or unit matrix.
LINKS
S. R. Kannan and Rajesh Kumar Mohapatra, Counting the Number of Non-Equivalent Classes of Fuzzy Matrices Using Combinatorial Techniques, arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13678 [math.GM], 2019.
R. B. Nelsen and H. Schmidt, Jr., Chains in power sets, Math. Mag., 64 (1) (1991), 23-31.
M. Tărnăuceanu, The number of chains of subgroups of a finite elementary abelian p-group, arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08298 [math.GR], 2015.
FORMULA
a(n) = A000629((n^2-n)/2).
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
S. R. Kannan, Rajesh Kumar Mohapatra, Feb 29 2020
EXTENSIONS
Missing term a(6) = 162249649997008147763642 inserted by Georg Fischer, Jul 15 2024
STATUS
approved