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A151462
Number of walks within N^2 (the first quadrant of Z^2) starting at (0,0), ending on the vertical axis and consisting of n steps taken from {(-1, 1), (0, 1), (1, -1), (1, 0), (1, 1)}.
0
1, 1, 3, 8, 27, 89, 320, 1158, 4347, 16510, 63903, 249952, 989110, 3947056, 15878333, 64296723, 261931840, 1072616649, 4413123474, 18233286270, 75619434417, 314696837489, 1313747904446, 5500152407820, 23087645330262, 97148591427302, 409700045646219, 1731398744266320, 7331054076146476
OFFSET
0,3
LINKS
M. Bousquet-Mélou and M. Mishna, 2008. Walks with small steps in the quarter plane, ArXiv 0810.4387.
MATHEMATICA
aux[i_Integer, j_Integer, n_Integer] := Which[Min[i, j, n] < 0 || Max[i, j] > n, 0, n == 0, KroneckerDelta[i, j, n], True, aux[i, j, n] = aux[-1 + i, -1 + j, -1 + n] + aux[-1 + i, j, -1 + n] + aux[-1 + i, 1 + j, -1 + n] + aux[i, -1 + j, -1 + n] + aux[1 + i, -1 + j, -1 + n]]; Table[Sum[aux[0, k, n], {k, 0, n}], {n, 0, 25}]
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A148833 A210680 A121650 * A145967 A145792 A148834
KEYWORD
nonn,walk
AUTHOR
Manuel Kauers, Nov 18 2008
STATUS
approved