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A210541
Number of arrays of n nonnegative integers with value i>0 appearing only after i-1 has appeared at least 4 times
4
1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 33, 73, 177, 467, 1309, 3813, 11409, 34999, 110510, 361194, 1226930, 4334048, 15877297, 60049447, 233426007, 929616461, 3786970033, 15777120457, 67260334185, 293617319221, 1312868943154, 6010792180952
OFFSET
1,5
COMMENTS
Column 4 of A210545
LINKS
Rigoberto Flórez, José L. Ramírez, Fabio A. Velandia, and Diego Villamizar, Some Connections Between Restricted Dyck Paths, Polyominoes, and Non-Crossing Partitions, arXiv:2308.02059 [math.CO], 2023. See Table 1 p. 13.
FORMULA
a(n) = 1 if n<=4 else sum{i=0..n-4}(binomial(n-4,i)*a(i)). Proved by R. J. Mathar in the Sequence Fans Mailing List.
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=13
..0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0
..0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0
..0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0
..0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0
..1....1....1....0....1....1....1....0....1....1....0....0....1....0....0....1
..1....1....1....1....1....0....1....0....1....1....1....1....0....1....1....1
..0....1....0....0....1....0....1....0....0....0....0....1....0....0....1....0
..0....1....1....1....1....1....0....1....1....1....1....0....1....1....1....1
..1....2....1....0....0....1....1....1....1....1....0....0....1....1....1....0
..1....0....2....1....2....1....0....0....2....0....0....0....0....1....0....0
..0....1....1....1....2....2....1....1....1....0....0....1....0....2....2....1
..1....0....2....0....1....2....1....1....0....1....0....1....1....0....1....1
..2....0....1....2....1....0....2....2....2....0....0....1....2....0....2....0
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A084636 A352044 A161869 * A275545 A273972 A275443
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Mar 22 2012
STATUS
approved