A231428 Sorted and encoded binary matrices representing equivalence relations.

0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 18, 25, 32, 33, 42, 52, 63, 64, 68, 80, 96, 116, 128, 130, 136, 160, 170, 193, 225, 256, 257, 264, 272, 281, 322, 338, 388, 396, 455, 512, 513, 514, 516, 519, 584, 588, 656, 658, 729, 800, 801, 874, 948, 1023, 1024

Offset

1,3

Comments

The N X N binary matrix of an equivalence relation is perfectly defined by its upper-right triangle. We encode such a matrix with the (N*(N-1))/2 bit number obtained by joining together each line of the upper-right triangle. The numbers are converted to base 10.

This is an infinite sequence and can be used for arbitrarily large values of N. To enumerate the finite list of n X n matrices for a given n, truncate this sequence to the first A000110(n) elements.

Links

Philippe Beaudoin, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Philippe Beaudoin, Python program to generate the sequence

Tilman Piesk, Illustrated list of the first 52 equivalence relations

Tilman Piesk, Non-singleton blocks of the partitions of {1...8} in the same order.

Tilman Piesk, Permutations and partitions in the OEIS (Wikiversity)

Example

The 4 X 4 equivalence matrices are represented by the first A000110(4) = 15 elements, that is: 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 18, 25, 32, 33, 42, 52, 63.
The 4 X 4 matrix corresponding to 25 = 0b011001 is:
  1 0 1 1
  0 1 0 0
  1 0 1 1
  1 0 1 1

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A088413 A372098 A090669 * A263660 A215822 A079374

Adjacent sequences: A231425 A231426 A231427 * A231429 A231430 A231431

Keyword

nonn

Author

Philippe Beaudoin, Nov 09 2013

Status

approved