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A217990 Size of largest semigroup generated by one Boolean n X n matrix. 1
1, 2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37, 50, 65, 82, 101, 122, 145, 170, 197, 226, 257, 290, 420 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,2
REFERENCES
J. Denes, K. H. Kim, and F. W. Roush, Automata on one symbol, in Studies in Pure Mathematics: To the Memory of Paul Turan, Birkhäuser, 1983, pp. 127-134.
LINKS
George Markowsky, Bounds on the index and period of a binary relation on a finite set, Semigroup Forum 13 (1977), 253-259.
FORMULA
For n < 19, a(n) = n^2 - 2n + 2. For large n, l(n) <= a(n) < n^2 - 2n + 2 + l(n), where l(n) is Landau's function (A000793). It seems the exact value is still unknown.
EXAMPLE
a(4) = 10: the matrix [[0,0,0,1], [0,0,1,0], [1,0,0,0], [0,1,1,0]] generates a semigroup of order 10 under Boolean matrix multiplication.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A303372 A159547 A002522 * A322008 A300164 A248193
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Shallit, Oct 17 2012
STATUS
approved

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