A025591 Maximal coefficient of Product_{k<=n} (1 + x^k). Number of solutions to +- 1 +- 2 +- 3 +- ... +- n = 0 or 1.

1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 8, 14, 23, 40, 70, 124, 221, 397, 722, 1314, 2410, 4441, 8220, 15272, 28460, 53222, 99820, 187692, 353743, 668273, 1265204, 2399784, 4559828, 8679280, 16547220, 31592878, 60400688, 115633260, 221653776, 425363952, 817175698

Offset

0,4

Comments

If k is allowed to approach infinity, this gives the partition numbers A000009.

a(n) is the maximal number of subsets of {1,2,...,n} that share the same sum.

Links

T. D. Noe, Alois P. Heinz and Ray Chandler, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..3339 (terms < 10^1000, first 201 terms from T. D. Noe, next 200 terms from Alois P. Heinz)

Dorin Andrica and Ioan Tomescu, On an Integer Sequence Related to a Product of Trigonometric Functions, and Its Combinatorial Relevance , Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 5 (2002), Article 02.2.4.

Vlad-Florin Dragoi and Valeriu Beiu, Fast Reliability Ranking of Matchstick Minimal Networks, arXiv:1911.01153 [cs.DM], 2019.

Steven R. Finch, Signum equations and extremal coefficients, February 7, 2009. [Cached copy, with permission of the author]

E. Friedman and M. Keith, Magic Carpets, J. Int Sequences, 3 (2000), Article 00.2.5.

Marco Mondelli, S. H. Hassani, and R. Urbanke, Construction of Polar Codes with Sublinear Complexity, arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05295 [cs.IT], 2016-2017. See Sect. I.

Robert A. Proctor, Solution of two difficult combinatorial problems with linear algebra, American Mathematical Monthly 89, 721-734.

B. D. Sullivan, On a conjecture of Adrica and Tomescu, J. Int. Sequences 16 (2013), Article 13.3.1.

Formula

a(n) = A063865(n) + A063866(n).

a(n) ~ sqrt(6/Pi) * 2^n / n^(3/2) [conjectured by Andrica and Tomescu (2002) and proved by Sullivan (2013)]. - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 17 2020

More precise asymptotics: a(n) ~ sqrt(6/Pi) * 2^n / n^(3/2) * (1 - 6/(5*n) + 589/(560*n^2) - 39/(50*n^3) + ...). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 30 2022

a(n) = max_{k>=0} A053632(n,k). - Alois P. Heinz, Jan 20 2023

Maple

b:= proc(n, i) option remember; `if`(n>i*(i+1)/2, 0,
      `if`(i=0, 1, b(n+i, i-1)+b(abs(n-i), i-1)))
    end:
a:=n-> b(0, n)+b(1, n):
seq(a(n), n=0..40);  # Alois P. Heinz, Mar 10 2014

Mathematica

f[n_, s_] := f[n, s]=Which[n==0, If[s==0, 1, 0], Abs[s]>(n*(n+1))/2, 0, True, f[n-1, s-n]+f[n-1, s+n]]; Table[Which[Mod[n, 4]==0||Mod[n, 4]==3, f[n, 0], Mod[n, 4]==1||Mod[n, 4]==2, f[n, 1]], {n, 0, 40}]
(* Second program: *)
p = 1; Flatten[{1, Table[p = Expand[p*(1 + x^n)]; Max[CoefficientList[p, x]], {n, 1, 50}]}] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, May 04 2018 *)
b[n_, i_] := b[n, i] = If[n > i(i+1)/2, 0, If[i == 0, 1, b[n+i, i-1] + b[Abs[n-i], i-1]]];
a[n_] := b[0, n] + b[1, n]; a /@ Range[0, 40] (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 17 2020, after Alois P. Heinz *)

Prog

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<0, 0, polcoeff(prod(k=1, n, 1+x^k), n*(n+1)\4))

Crossrefs

Cf. A039828, A063865, A069918, A063866, A063867, A083309, A083527, A086376.

Cf. A053632, A160235, A359319, A359320.

Sequence in context: A236393 A350504 A039822 * A028409 A348850 A183559

Adjacent sequences: A025588 A025589 A025590 * A025592 A025593 A025594

Keyword

nonn,nice

Author

David W. Wilson

Status

approved