OFFSET
0,6
COMMENTS
Values in the range 0..2^n-1 correspond to length n binary vectors. The Hamming weight is the number of 1 bits. Reflected Gray code is described in A003188 and A014550.
Rows can be subdivided into subsequences of vectors having the same Hamming weight. Within each subsequence, adjacent values will differ by 2 bits. For example, the subsequence of length 5 vectors with Hamming weight 2 is 00011, 00110, 00101, 01100, 01010, 01001, 11000, 10100, 10010, 10001 (in decimal 3, 6, 5, 12, 10, 9, 24, 20, 18, 17).
A revolving door algorithm can be used to enumerate values of the same weight in the required order. See Knuth ("Gray codes for combinations", p. 362) for additional information.
REFERENCES
D. Knuth, The art of computer programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1, Addison-Wesley, 2011.
F. Ruskey, Combinatorial Generation. Working Version (1j-CSC 425/520), 2003.
LINKS
Valentin Bakoev, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..65535
Valentin Bakoev, Some problems and algorithms related to the weight order relation on the n-dimensional Boolean cube, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, Vol. 13 No 3, 2150021 (2021); arXiv preprint, arXiv:1811.04421 [cs.DM], 2018-2020.
Valentin Bakoev, Ordering the Boolean Cube Vectors by Their Weights and with Minimal Change, Int'l Conf. Algebraic Informatics (CAI 2022) Lecture Notes Comp. Sci. (LNCS) Vol. 13706, 43-54.
Sage Reference Manual, Gray codes
FORMULA
The n-th row is the concatenation of the subsequences g(n, 0), ..., g(n, n), where the subsequences are defined as follows:
g(n, 0) = (0),
g(n, n) = (2^n - 1),
g(n, k) = g(n-1, k) concatenate (g^r(n-1, k-1) + 2^(n-1)) for 0 < k < n.
In the above, g^r(n-1, k-1) + 2^(n-1) means the 2^(n-1) is added to each member of the subsequence g(n-1, k-1) in reversed order.
EXAMPLE
Triangle T(n,k) begins:
n=0: 0;
n=1: 0, 1;
n=2: 0, 1, 2, 3;
n=3: 0, 1, 2, 4, 3, 6, 5, 7;
n=4: 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 3, 6, 5, 12, 10, 9, 7, 13, 14, 11, 15;
n=5: 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 3, 6, 5, 12, 10, 9, 24, 20, 18, 17, 7, 13, 14, 11, 25, 26, 28, 21, 22, 19, 15, 27, 30, 29, 23, 31;
...
For row n = 3, the binary words of length 3 in reflected Gray code order are 000, 001, 011, 010, 110, 111, 101, 100. Arranging these by Hamming weight but otherwise preserving the order gives 000, 001, 010, 100, 011, 110, 101, 111. As decimal numbers these are 0, 1, 2, 4, 3, 6, 5, 7, which is row 3.
MAPLE
b:= proc(n) b(n):= `if`(n<2, n, Bits[Xor](n, b(iquo(n, 2)))) end:
h:= proc(n) h(n):= add(i, i=Bits[Split](n)) end:
T:= n-> sort([$0..2^n-1], (x, y)-> h(x)<h(y) or h(x)=h(y) and b(x)<b(y))[]:
seq(T(n), n=0..6); # Alois P. Heinz, Mar 01 2022
MATHEMATICA
b[n_] := If[n < 2, n, BitXor[n, b[Quotient[n, 2]]]];
h[n_] := DigitCount[n, 2, 1];
T[n_] := SortBy[{h, b}][Range[0, 2^n - 1]];
Table[T[n], {n, 0, 6}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 21 2022, after Alois P. Heinz *)
PROG
(PARI) row(n)=vecsort(vector(2^n, i, i--; bitxor(i, i>>1)), (x, y) -> cmp(hammingweight(x), hammingweight(y)))
{ for(n=0, 5, print(row(n))) } \\ Andrew Howroyd, Feb 28 2022
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,tabf
AUTHOR
Valentin Bakoev, Feb 26 2022
STATUS
approved