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A192866
Number of set partitions of {1, ..., n} that avoid enhanced 6-crossings (or enhanced 6-nestings).
1
1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, 877, 4140, 21147, 115975, 678569, 4213555, 27643388, 190878823, 1382610179, 10474709625, 82784673008, 680933897225, 5816811952612, 51505026270176
OFFSET
0,3
LINKS
M. Bousquet-Mélou and G. Xin, On partitions avoiding 3-crossings, math.CO/0506551.
Sophie Burrill, Sergi Elizalde, Marni Mishna and Lily Yen, A generating tree approach to k-nonnesting partitions and permutations, arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5615, 2011
W. Chen, E. Deng, R. Du, R. P. Stanley, and C. Yan, Crossings and nestings of matchings and partitions, math.CO/0501230
EXAMPLE
There are 678570 partitions of 11 elements, but a(11)=678569 because the partition {1,11}{2,10}{3,9}{4,8}{5,9}{6} has an enhanced 6-nesting.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Marni Mishna, Jul 11 2011
STATUS
approved