OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
In Richard Guy's letter, the term 50 is marked with a question mark. Peter Kagey has shown that the value should be 55. - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 15 2017
From Peter Kagey, Feb 14 2017: (Start)
An inseparable solution is one in which "there is no j such that the first j of the triples are a partition of 1, ..., 3j" (See A202705.)
A self-conjugate solution is one in which for every triple (a, b, c) in the partition there exists a "conjugate" triple (m-a, m-b, m-c) or (m-b, m-a, m-c) where m = 3n+1.
(End)
REFERENCES
R. K. Guy, Sedlacek's Conjecture on Disjoint Solutions of x+y= z, Univ. Calgary, Dept. Mathematics, Research Paper No. 129, 1971.
R. K. Guy, Sedlacek's Conjecture on Disjoint Solutions of x+y= z, in Proc. Conf. Number Theory. Pullman, WA, 1971, pp. 221-223.
R. K. Guy, Packing [1,n] with solutions of ax + by = cz; the unity of combinatorics, in Colloq. Internaz. Teorie Combinatorie. Rome, 1973, Atti Conv. Lincei. Vol. 17, Part II, pp. 173-179, 1976.
LINKS
R. K. Guy, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, June 24 1971: front, back [Annotated scanned copy, with permission] See sequence "I".
Peter Kagey, Haskell program for A279197.
Peter Kagey, Solutions for a(1)-a(10).
R. J. Nowakowski, Generalizations of the Langford-Skolem problem, M.S. Thesis, Dept. Math., Univ. Calgary, May 1975. [Scanned copy, with permission.]
EXAMPLE
Examples of solutions X,Y,Z for n=5:
2,4,3
5,7,6
1,15,8
9,11,10
12,14,13
and in his letter Richard Guy has drawn links pairing the first and fifth solutions, and the second and fourth solutions.
For n = 2 the a(2) = 1 solution is
[(2,6,4),(1,5,3)].
For n = 3 the a(3) = 2 solutions are
[(1,7,4),(3,9,6),(2,8,5)] and
[(2,4,3),(6,8,7),(1,9,5)].
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 15 2016
EXTENSIONS
a(7) corrected and a(8)-a(13) added by Peter Kagey, Feb 14 2017
a(14)-a(16) from Fausto A. C. Cariboni, Feb 27 2017
a(17) from Fausto A. C. Cariboni, Mar 22 2017
STATUS
approved