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A001372
Number of unlabeled mappings (or mapping patterns) from n points to themselves; number of unlabeled endofunctions.
(Formerly M2671 N1069)
39
1, 1, 3, 7, 19, 47, 130, 343, 951, 2615, 7318, 20491, 57903, 163898, 466199, 1328993, 3799624, 10884049, 31241170, 89814958, 258604642, 745568756, 2152118306, 6218869389, 17988233052, 52078309200, 150899223268, 437571896993, 1269755237948, 3687025544605, 10712682919341, 31143566495273, 90587953109272, 263627037547365
OFFSET
0,3
REFERENCES
F. Bergeron, G. Labelle, and P. Leroux, Combinatorial Species and Tree-Like Structures, Cambridge, 1998, pp. 41, 209.
S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, Section 5.6.6.
R. A. Fisher, Contributions to Mathematical Statistics, Wiley, 1950, 41.401.
F. Harary and E. M. Palmer, Graphical Enumeration, Academic Press, NY, 1973, p. 70, Table 3.4.1.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000 (first 501 terms from Christian G. Bower)
A. L. Agore, A. Chirvasitu, and G. Militaru, The set-theoretic Yang-Baxter equation, Kimura semigroups and functional graphs, arXiv:2303.06700 [math.QA], 2023.
N. G. de Bruijn, Enumeration of mapping patterns, J. Combin. Theory, 12 (1972), 14-20.
N. G. de Bruijn and D. A. Klarner, Multisets of aperiodic cycles, SIAM J. Algebraic Discrete Methods 3 (1982), no. 3, 359--368. MR0666861(84i:05008).
Robert L. Davis, The number of structures of finite relations, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1953), 486-495.
Oscar Defrain, Antonio E. Porreca and Ekaterina Timofeeva, Polynomial-delay generation of functional digraphs up to isomorphism, arXiv:2302.13832 [cs.DS], 2023-2024.
Oscar Defrain, Antonio E. Porreca and Ekaterina Timofeeva, Polynomial-delay generation of functional digraphs up to isomorphism, Disc. Appl. Math., vol 357 (2024), pp. 24-33.
Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics, 2009; see page 480
Alexander Heaton, Songpon Sriwongsa, and Jeb F. Willenbring, Branching from the General Linear Group to the Symmetric Group and the Principal Embedding, Algebraic Combinatorics, vol. 4, issue 2 (2021), p. 189-200.
Florent Hivert, Jean-Christophe Novelli, and Jean-Yves Thibon, Commutative combinatorial Hopf algebras, arXiv:math/0605262 [math.CO], 2006.
Sujoy Mukherjee and Petr Vojtěchovský, Minimal representatives of endofunctions, Univ. Denver (2024).
Ronald C. Read, Note on number of functional digraphs, Math. Ann., vol. 143 (1961), pp. 109-111.
Sara Riva, Factorisation of Discrete Dynamical Systems, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Côte d'Azur (France 2023).
N. J. A. Sloane, Transforms
FORMULA
Euler transform of A002861.
a(n) ~ c * d^n / sqrt(n), where d = A051491 = 2.9557652856519949747148... (Otter's rooted tree constant), c = 0.442876769782206479836... (for a closed form see "Mathematical Constants", p.308). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 17 2015
EXAMPLE
The a(3) = 7 mappings are:
1->1, 2->2, 3->3
1->1, 2->2, 3->1 (equiv. to 1->1, 2->2, 3->2, or 1->1, 2->1, 3->3, etc.)
1->1, 2->3, 3->2
1->1, 2->1, 3->2
1->1, 2->1, 3->1
1->2, 2->3, 3->1
1->2, 2->1, 3->1
MAPLE
with(combstruct): M[ 2671 ] := [ F, {F=Set(K), K=Cycle(T), T=Prod(Z, Set(T))}, unlabeled ]:
a:=seq(count(M[2671], size=n), n=0..27); # added by W. Edwin Clark, Nov 23 2010
MATHEMATICA
Needs["Combinatorica`"];
nn=30; s[n_, k_]:=s[n, k]=a[n+1-k]+If[n<2 k, 0, s[n-k, k]]; a[1]=1; a[n_]:=a[n]=Sum[a[i] s[n-1, i] i, {i, 1, n-1}]/(n-1); rt=Table[a[i], {i, 1, nn}]; c=Drop[Apply[Plus, Table[Take[CoefficientList[CycleIndex[CyclicGroup[n], s]/.Table[s[j]->Table[Sum[rt[[i]] x^(k*i), {i, 1, nn}], {k, 1, nn}][[j]], {j, 1, nn}], x], nn], {n, 1, 30}]], 1]; CoefficientList[Series[Product[1/(1-x^i)^c[[i]], {i, 1, nn-1}], {x, 0, nn}], x] (* after code given by Robert A. Russell in A000081 *) (* Geoffrey Critzer, Oct 12 2012 *)
max = 40; A[n_] := A[n] = If[n <= 1, n, Sum[DivisorSum[j, #*A[#]&]*A[n-j], {j, 1, n-1}]/(n-1)]; H[t_] := Sum[A[n]*t^n, {n, 0, max}]; F = 1 / Product[1 - H[x^n], {n, 1, max}] + O[x]^max; CoefficientList[F, x] (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 01 2015, after Joerg Arndt *)
PROG
(PARI) N=66; A=vector(N+1, j, 1);
for (n=1, N, A[n+1] = 1/n * sum(k=1, n, sumdiv(k, d, d * A[d]) * A[n-k+1] ) );
A000081=concat([0], A);
H(t)=subst(Ser(A000081, 't), 't, t);
x='x+O('x^N);
F=1/prod(n=1, N, 1 - H(x^n));
Vec(F)
\\ Joerg Arndt, Jul 10 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,nice,easy
EXTENSIONS
More terms etc. from Paul Zimmermann, Mar 15 1996
Name edited by Keith J. Bauer, Jan 07 2024
STATUS
approved