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A001268 One-half the number of permutations of length n with exactly 4 rising or falling successions.
(Formerly M4805 N2053)
5

%I M4805 N2053 #25 Dec 19 2021 09:54:54

%S 0,0,0,0,0,1,11,113,1099,11060,118484,1366134,16970322,226574211,

%T 3240161105,49453685911,802790789101,13815657556958,251309386257874,

%U 4818622686395380,97145520138758844,2054507019515346789,45484006970415223287,1052036480881734378541

%N One-half the number of permutations of length n with exactly 4 rising or falling successions.

%C (1/2) times number of permutations of 12...n such that exactly 4 of the following occur: 12, 23, ..., (n-1)n, 21, 32, ..., n(n-1).

%D F. N. David, M. G. Kendall and D. E. Barton, Symmetric Function and Allied Tables, Cambridge, 1966, p. 263.

%D N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

%D N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

%H Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A001268/b001268.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200</a>

%H J. Riordan, <a href="http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoms/1177700181">A recurrence for permutations without rising or falling successions</a>, Ann. Math. Statist. 36 (1965), 708-710.

%F Coefficient of t^4 in S[n](t) defined in A002464, divided by 2.

%F Recurrence (for n>5): (n-5)*(n^8 - 41*n^7 + 730*n^6 - 7358*n^5 + 45799*n^4 - 179702*n^3 + 432498*n^2 - 581244*n + 332100)*a(n) = (n^10 - 45*n^9 + 895*n^8 - 10301*n^7 + 75340*n^6 - 361190*n^5 + 1124682*n^4 - 2150033*n^3 + 2147364*n^2 - 499899*n - 544266)*a(n-1) - (n^10 - 44*n^9 + 869*n^8 - 10112*n^7 + 76390*n^6 - 388742*n^5 + 1336932*n^4 - 3028095*n^3 + 4237931*n^2 - 3198426*n + 917988)*a(n-2) - (n^10 - 43*n^9 + 823*n^8 - 9195*n^7 + 66108*n^6 - 318138*n^5 + 1033118*n^4 - 2224673*n^3 + 3023402*n^2 - 2325285*n + 761190)*a(n-3) + (n^8 - 33*n^7 + 471*n^6 - 3783*n^5 + 18594*n^4 - 56865*n^3 + 104723*n^2 - 104847*n + 42783)*(n-2)^2*a(n-4). - _Vaclav Kotesovec_, Aug 11 2013

%F a(n) ~ n!*exp(-2)/3. - _Vaclav Kotesovec_, Aug 11 2013

%p S:= proc(n) option remember; `if`(n<4, [1, 1, 2*t, 4*t+2*t^2]

%p [n+1], expand((n+1-t)*S(n-1) -(1-t)*(n-2+3*t)*S(n-2)

%p -(1-t)^2*(n-5+t)*S(n-3) +(1-t)^3*(n-3)*S(n-4)))

%p end:

%p a:= n-> ceil(coeff(S(n), t, 4)/2):

%p seq(a(n), n=0..25); # _Alois P. Heinz_, Jan 11 2013

%t S[n_] := S[n] = If[n<4, {1, 1, 2*t, 4*t + 2*t^2}[[n+1]], Expand[(n+1-t)*S[n-1] - (1-t)*(n-2+3*t)*S[n-2] - (1-t)^2*(n-5+t)*S[n-3] + (1-t)^3*(n-3)*S[n-4]]]; a[n_] := Ceiling[Coefficient[S[n], t, 4]/2]; Table [a[n], {n, 0, 25}] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Mar 24 2014, after _Alois P. Heinz_ *)

%Y Cf. A002464, A000130, A086852. Equals A086855/2. A diagonal of A010028.

%K nonn

%O 0,7

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_

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