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A090013
Permanent of (0,1)-matrix of size n X (n+d) with d=3 and n-1 zeros not on a line.
3
4, 16, 84, 536, 4004, 34176, 327604, 3481096, 40585284, 514872176, 7058605844, 103969203576, 1637182717924, 27442553929696, 487806792137844, 9164718013496936, 181446744138509444, 3775570370986139856
OFFSET
1,1
REFERENCES
Brualdi, Richard A. and Ryser, Herbert J., Combinatorial Matrix Theory, Cambridge NY (1991), Chapter 7.
LINKS
Seok-Zun Song et al., Extremes of permanents of (0,1)-matrices, Lin. Algebra and its Applic. 373 (2003), pp. 197-210.
FORMULA
a(n) = (n+2)*a(n-1) + (n-2)*a(n-2), a(1)=4, a(2)=16
a(n) ~ exp(-1) * n! * n^3 / 6. - Vaclav Kotesovec, Nov 30 2017
MATHEMATICA
t={4, 16}; Do[AppendTo[t, (n+2)*t[[-1]]+(n-2)*t[[-2]]], {n, 3, 18}]; t (* Indranil Ghosh, Feb 21 2017 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Jaap Spies, Dec 13 2003
EXTENSIONS
Corrected by Jaap Spies, Jan 26 2004
STATUS
approved