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A101030 Triangle read by rows: T(n,k) = number of functions from an n-element set into but not onto a k-element set. 6

%I #20 Oct 17 2022 07:07:12

%S 0,0,2,0,2,21,0,2,45,232,0,2,93,784,3005,0,2,189,2536,13825,45936,0,2,

%T 381,7984,61325,264816,818503,0,2,765,24712,264625,1488096,5623681,

%U 16736896,0,2,1533,75664,1119005,8172576,38025127,132766208,387057609,0

%N Triangle read by rows: T(n,k) = number of functions from an n-element set into but not onto a k-element set.

%H Mohammad K. Azarian, <a href="https://doi.org/10.12988/imf.2022.912321">Remarks and Conjectures Regarding Combinatorics of Discrete Partial Functions</a>, Int'l Math. Forum (2022) Vol. 17, No. 3, 129-141. See Theorem 2.2(v).

%H D. P. Walsh, <a href="http://capone.mtsu.edu/dwalsh/NONSURJ.pdf">A note on non-surjective functions from [n] to [k]</a>.

%F T(n,k) = A089072(n,k) - A019538(n,k).

%F T(n,k) = Sum_{j=1..k} (-1)^(j-1)*C(k,j)*(k-j)^n. - _Dennis P. Walsh_, Apr 13 2016

%F T(n,k) = k^n - k!*Stirling2(n,k). - _Dennis P. Walsh_, Apr 13 2016

%e T(3,3) = #(functions into) - #(functions onto) = 3^3 - 6 = 21

%e Triangle T(n,k) begins:

%e 0,

%e 0, 2;

%e 0, 2, 21;

%e 0, 2, 45, 232;

%e 0, 2, 93, 784, 3005;

%e 0, 2, 189, 2536, 13825, 45936;

%e 0, 2, 381, 7984, 61325, 264816, 818503;

%e 0, 2, 765, 24712, 264625, 1488096, 5623681, 16736896;

%e 0, 2, 1533, 75664, 1119005, 8172576, 38025127, 132766208, 387057609;

%p T:=(n, k)->sum((-1)^(j-1)*binomial(k, j)*(k-j)^n, j=1..k);

%p seq(seq(T(n, k), k=1..n), n=1..15); # _Dennis P. Walsh_, Apr 13 2016

%Y Cf. A199656, A036679 (diagonal).

%K nonn,tabl,easy

%O 1,3

%A _Clark Kimberling_, Nov 26 2004

%E Offset corrected from 0 to 1 by _Dennis P. Walsh_, Apr 13 2016

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