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Number of pairs of functions f, g on a size n set into itself satisfying f(g(g(x))) = f(x).
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%I #20 Nov 03 2016 09:32:54

%S 1,1,12,249,7744,326745,17773056,1197261289,97165842432,9294416254161,

%T 1030298497753600,130527793649586201,18685034341191917568,

%U 2993332161753700720681,532270629438646194561024,104316725427708352041239625,22394627939996943667912769536

%N Number of pairs of functions f, g on a size n set into itself satisfying f(g(g(x))) = f(x).

%H Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A239777/b239777.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200</a>

%p s:= proc(n, i) option remember; `if`(i=0, [[]],

%p map(x-> seq([j, x[]], j=1..n), s(n, i-1)))

%p end:

%p a:= proc(n) (l-> add(add(`if`([true$n]=[seq(evalb(

%p f[g[g[i]]]=f[i]), i=1..n)], 1, 0), g=l), f=l))(s(n$2))

%p end:

%p seq(a(n), n=0..5); # _Alois P. Heinz_, Jul 16 2014

%p # second Maple program:

%p with(combinat):

%p b:= proc(n, i) option remember; `if`(n=0 or i=1, x^n,

%p expand(add((i-1)!^j*multinomial(n, n-i*j, i$j)/j!

%p *x^((2-irem(i, 2))*j)*b(n-i*j, i-1), j=0..n/i)))

%p end:

%p a:= n-> add((p-> add(n^i*binomial(n-1, k-1)*n^(n-k)*

%p coeff(p, x, i), i=0..degree(p)))(b(k$2)), k=0..n):

%p seq(a(n), n=0..20); # _Alois P. Heinz_, Aug 06 2014

%t c[n_] := c[n] =

%t Sum[(n - 1)! n^(n - k)/(n - k)! t^(1 + Mod[k + 1, 2]), {k, 1, n}]

%t d[0] = 1

%t d[n_] := d[n] = Sum[Binomial[n - 1, k]*d[k]*c[n - k], {k, 0, n - 1}]

%t a[n_] := d[n] /. t -> n

%t Table[a[n], {n, 1, 10}] (* _David Einstein_, Nov 02 2016*)

%Y Cf. A181162, A239769, A239773.

%Y Column k=2 of A245910.

%K nonn

%O 0,3

%A _Chad Brewbaker_, Mar 26 2014

%E a(6)-a(7) from _Giovanni Resta_, Mar 28 2014

%E a(8)-a(16) from _Alois P. Heinz_, Aug 06 2014

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