login
The OEIS is supported by the many generous donors to the OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo
Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A162978 Number of fixed points in all alternating (i.e., down-up) permutations of {1,2,...,n}. 3

%I #16 Jul 24 2018 02:57:40

%S 1,0,1,4,15,52,257,1272,7679,47864,346113,2604380,22022143,194053836,

%T 1881735169,18998097328,207983607807,2366490065968,28880901505025,

%U 365599818496116,4922617151619071,68612903386404260,1010501269355233281,15376572385777544744

%N Number of fixed points in all alternating (i.e., down-up) permutations of {1,2,...,n}.

%C a(n) = Sum_{k>=0} k*A162979(n,k).

%C a(2n+1) = A162977(2n+1).

%H Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A162978/b162978.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..485</a>

%H R. P. Stanley, <a href="http://math.mit.edu/~rstan/transparencies/ida.pdf">Alternating permutations</a> Talk slides.

%F a(2n) = E(2n) + (-1)^n*E(0) + 2*Sum_{j=1..n-1} (-1)^j*E(2n-2j), a(2n+1) = Sum_{j=0..n} (-1)^j*E(2n+1-2j), where E(i) = A000111(i) are the Euler (or up-down) numbers.

%e a(4)=4 because in the 5 (=A000111(4)) down-up permutations of {1,2,3,4}, namely 4132, 3142, 2143, 4231, and 3241, we have a total of 1+0+0+2+1=4 fixed points.

%p E := sec(x)+tan(x): Eser := series(E, x = 0, 30): for n from 0 to 27 do E[n] := factorial(n)*coeff(Eser, x, n) end do: for n to 12 do a[2*n] := E[2*n]+(-1)^n*E[0]+2*add((-1)^j*E[2*n-2*j], j = 1 .. n-1) end do: for n from 0 to 12 do a[2*n+1] := add((-1)^j*E[2*n+1-2*j], j = 0 .. n) end do: seq(a[n], n = 1 .. 25);

%t a111[n_] := If[EvenQ[n], Abs[EulerE[n]], Abs[(2^(n+1) (2^(n+1) - 1) BernoulliB[n+1])/(n+1)]];

%t a[n_?EvenQ] := With[{m = n/2}, a111[2m] + (-1)^m a111[0] + 2Sum[(-1)^j a111[2m - 2j], {j, 1, m-1}]];

%t a[n_?OddQ] := With[{m = (n-1)/2}, Sum[(-1)^j a111[2m+1-2j], {j, 0, m}]];

%t Array[a, 25] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Jul 24 2018 *)

%Y Cf. A000111, A162977, A162979.

%K nonn

%O 1,4

%A _Emeric Deutsch_, Aug 06 2009

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recents
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. .

Last modified April 25 01:35 EDT 2024. Contains 371964 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)