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A005774 Number of directed animals of size n (k=1 column of A038622); number of (s(0), s(1), ..., s(n)) such that s(i) is a nonnegative integer and |s(i) - s(i-1)| <= 1 for i = 1,2,...,n, where s(0) = 2; also sum of row n+1 of array T in A026323.
(Formerly M2804)
11
0, 1, 3, 9, 26, 75, 216, 623, 1800, 5211, 15115, 43923, 127854, 372749, 1088283, 3181545, 9312312, 27287091, 80038449, 234988827, 690513030, 2030695569, 5976418602, 17601021837, 51869858544, 152951628725, 451271872701, 1332147482253 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Number of ordered trees with n+1 edges, having root degree at least 2 and nonroot outdegrees at most 2. - Emeric Deutsch, Aug 02 2002
From Petkovsek's algorithm, this recurrence does not have any closed form solutions. So there is no hypergeometric closed form for a(n). - Herbert S. Wilf
Sum of two consecutive trinomial coefficients starting two positions before central one. Example: a(4) = 10+16 and (1 + x + x^2)^4 = ... + 10*x^2 + 16*x^3 + 19*x^4 + ... - David Callan, Feb 07 2004
Image of n (A001477) under the Motzkin related matrix A107131. Binomial transform of A037952. - Paul Barry, May 12 2005
a(n) = total number of ascents (maximal runs of consecutive upsteps) in all Motzkin (n+1)-paths. For example, the 9 Motzkin 4-paths are FFFF, FFUD, FUDF, FUFD, UDFF, UDUD, UFDF, UFFD, UUDD and they contain a total of 9 ascents and so a(3)=9 (U=upstep, D=downstep, F=flatstep). - David Callan, Aug 16 2006
Image of the sequence (0,1,2,3,3,3,...) under the array A122896. - Paul Barry, Sep 18 2006
This is some kind of Motzkin transform of A079978 because the substitution x-> x*A001006(x) in the independent variable of the g.f. A079978(x) yields 1,0 followed by this sequence here. - R. J. Mathar, Nov 08 2008
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
P. Barry, Riordan arrays, generalized Narayana triangles, and series reversion, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 491 (2016) 343-385.
D. Gouyou-Beauchamps, G. Viennot, Equivalence of the two-dimensional directed animal problem to a one-dimensional path problem, Adv. in Appl. Math. 9 (1988), no. 3, 334-357.
Christian Krattenthaler, Daniel Yaqubi, Some determinants of path generating functions, II, arXiv:1802.05990 [math.CO], 2018; Adv. Appl. Math. 101 (2018), 232-265.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de Séries Génératrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992.
Simon Plouffe, Une méthode pour obtenir la fonction génératrice d'une série, FPSAC 1993, Florence. Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics.
FORMULA
Inverse binomial transform of [ 0, 1, 5, 21, 84, ... ] (A002054). - John W. Layman
D-finite with recurrence (n+2)*(n-1)*a(n) = 2*n*(n+1)*a(n-1) + 3*n*(n-1)*a(n-2) for all n in Z. - Michael Somos, May 01 2003
E.g.f.: exp(x)*(BesselI(1, 2*x)+BesselI(2, 2*x)). - Vladeta Jovovic, Jan 01 2004
G.f.: (1-x-sqrt(1-2x-3x^2))/(x(1-3x+sqrt(1-2x-3x^2))); a(n)= Sum_{k=0..n} C(k+1, n-k+1)*C(n, k)*k/(k+1); a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} C(n, k)*C(k, floor((k-1)/2)). - Paul Barry, May 12 2005
Starting (1, 3, 9, 26, ...) = binomial transform of A026010: (1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 25, 50, 91, ...). - Gary W. Adamson, Oct 22 2007
a(n)*(2+n) = (4+4*n)*a(n-1) - n*a(n-2) + (12-6*n)*a(n-3). - Simon Plouffe, Feb 09 2012
a(n) ~ 3^(n+1/2) / sqrt(Pi*n). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 10 2014
0 = a(n)*(+36*a(n+1) + 18*a(n+2) - 96*a(n+3) + 30*a(n+4)) + a(n+1)*(-6*a(n+1) + 49*a(n+2) - 26*a(n+3) + 3*a(n+4)) + a(n+2)*(+15*a(n+3) - 8*a(n+4)) + a(n+3)*(a(n+4)) if n >= 0. - Michael Somos, Aug 06 2014
a(n) = GegenbauerC(n-2,-n,-1/2) + GegenbauerC(n-1,-n,-1/2). - Peter Luschny, May 12 2016
EXAMPLE
G.f.: x + 3*x^2 + 9*x^3 + 26*x^4 + 75*x^5 + 216*x^6 + 623*x^7 + ...
MAPLE
seq( add(binomial(i, k+1)*binomial(i-k, k), k=0..floor(i/2)), i=0..30 ); # Detlef Pauly (dettodet(AT)yahoo.de), Nov 09 2001
seq(simplify(GegenbauerC(n-2, -n, -1/2) + GegenbauerC(n-1, -n, -1/2)), n=0..27); # Peter Luschny, May 12 2016
MATHEMATICA
CoefficientList[Series[(1-x-Sqrt[1-2x-3x^2])/(x(1-3x+Sqrt[1-2x-3x^2])), {x, 0, 30}], x] (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 20 2011 *)
RecurrenceTable[{a[0]==0, a[1]==1, a[n]==(2n(n+1)a[n-1]+3n(n-1)a[n-2])/ ((n+2)(n-1))}, a, {n, 30}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 09 2012 *)
PROG
(PARI) s=[0, 1]; {A005774(n)=k=(2*(n+2)*(n+1)*s[2]+3*(n+1)*n*s[1])/((n+3)*n); s[1]=s[2]; s[2]=k; k}
(PARI) {a(n) = if( n<2, n>0, (2 * (n+1) * n *a(n-1) + 3 * (n-1) * n * a(n-2)) / (n+2) / (n-1))}; /* Michael Somos, May 01 2003 */
(Haskell)
a005774 0 = 0
a005774 n = a038622 n 1 -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 26 2013
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A076264 A018919 A123941 * A273343 A101169 A119826
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Further descriptions from Clark Kimberling
STATUS
approved

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