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Number of cells in smallest polyomino with n holes.
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%I #29 Oct 13 2022 04:55:50

%S 7,11,14,17,19,23,25,28,30,33,35,38,40,43,45,48,50,53,55,57,59,62,64,

%T 67,69,71,74,76,78,81,83,85,88,90,92,95,97,99,101,104,106,108,110,113,

%U 115,117,119,122,124,126,128,131,133,135,137,140,142,144,146,149

%N Number of cells in smallest polyomino with n holes.

%C The polyomino must be rook-wise connected and a hole is a collection of rook-wise connected empty cells from which a rook cannot escape. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, May 25 2006

%C From _Dmitry Kamenetsky_, Feb 28 2017: (Start)

%C There is a simple pattern that gives us a good upper bound. The idea is to use two rows of single-cell holes touching at their corners:

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%C Each new hole requires an additional 3 cells (X) to surround it. Hence we get a(n) <= 3n + 5. (End)

%H Greg Malen and Érika Roldán, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10342">Topology and Geometry of Crystallized Polyominoes</a>, arXiv:1910.10342 [math.CO], 2019.

%H Tomás Oliveira e Silva, <a href="http://www.ieeta.pt/%7Etos/animals/a44.html">Animal enumerations on the {4,4} Euclidean tiling</a>

%e a(1) = 7 from

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%e X X

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%Y Cf. A168339.

%K more,nonn

%O 1,1

%A _Franklin T. Adams-Watters_, May 22 2006

%E a(8) added by _Dmitry Kamenetsky_, Feb 28 2017

%E a(9)-a(60) added by _Peter Kagey_, Oct 28 2019, from Table 2 of the Malen Roldán paper.