OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Number of associative and quasitrivial binary operations on {1,...,n} that have neutral elements. Also: Number of associative and quasitrivial binary operations on {1,...,n} that have annihilator elements.
LINKS
M. Couceiro, J. Devillet, and J.-L. Marichal, Quasitrivial semigroups: characterizations and enumerations, arXiv:1709.09162 [math.RA], 2017.
FORMULA
a(n) = n*A292932(n-1).
a(n) ~ n! / ((r-1) * (r-3)^n), where r = -LambertW(-1, -2*exp(-3)) = 3.5830738760366909976807989989303134394318270218566... - Vaclav Kotesovec, Sep 27 2017
MATHEMATICA
With[{nn=20}, CoefficientList[Series[x/(x+3-2Exp[x]), {x, 0, nn}], x] Range[ 0, nn]!] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 01 2019 *)
PROG
(PARI) concat(0, Vec(serlaplace(x/(x+3-2*exp(x))))) \\ Michel Marcus, Sep 27 2017
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Jean-Luc Marichal, Sep 27 2017
STATUS
approved