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Number of set partitions of {1, ..., n} that avoid 4-crossings.
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%I #25 Nov 18 2023 08:01:19

%S 1,1,2,5,15,52,203,877,4139,21119,115495,671969,4132936,26723063,

%T 180775027,1274056792,9320514343,70548979894,550945607475,

%U 4427978077331,36544023687590

%N Number of set partitions of {1, ..., n} that avoid 4-crossings.

%H M. Bousquet-Mélou and G. Xin, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506551">On partitions avoiding 3-crossings</a>, arXiv:math/0506551 [math.CO], 2005-2006.

%H Sophie Burrill, Sergi Elizalde, Marni Mishna and Lily Yen, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5615">A generating tree approach to k-nonnesting partitions and permutations</a>, arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5615 [math.CO], 2011.

%H W. Chen, E. Deng, R. Du, R. Stanley, and C. Yan, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501230">Crossings and nestings of matchings and partitions</a>, arXiv:math/0501230 [math.CO], 2005.

%H Juan B. Gil and Jordan O. Tirrell, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09065">A simple bijection for classical and enhanced k-noncrossing partitions</a>, arXiv:1806.09065 [math.CO], 2018. Also Discrete Mathematics (2019) Article 111705. doi:10.1016/j.disc.2019.111705

%H M. Mishna and L. Yen, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5036">Set partitions with no k-nesting</a>, arXiv:1106.5036 [math.CO], 2011-2012.

%e There are 4140 partitions of 8 elements, but a(8)=4139 because the partition (1,5)(2,6)(3,7)(4,8) has a 4-crossing.

%K easy,nonn,more

%O 0,3

%A _Mireille Bousquet-Mélou_, Jun 29 2005