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A295569
Irregular triangle, read by rows: the Schroeder generating tree, read from left to right, row by row, starting at the root.
3
2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 3, 4
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Row n has A006318(n-1) terms (these are the large Schroeder numbers).
The limiting sequence of the rows is A295570.
LINKS
Julian West, Generating trees and the Catalan and Schröder numbers, Discrete Math. 146 (1995), 247-262.
Julian West, Generating trees and forbidden subsequences, Discrete Math., 157 (1996), 363-374.
EXAMPLE
The triangle starts with a root node (at level 1) labeled 2; thereafter every node labeled k has k children at the next level whose labels are 3, 4, ..., k, k+1, k+1.
Rows 1, 2, 3, 4, and part of 5 are:
2,
3,3,
3,4,4,3,4,4,
3,4,4,3,4,5,5,3,4,5,5,3,4,4,3,4,5,5,3,4,5,5,
3,4,4,3,4,5,5,3,4,5,5,3,4,4,3,4,5,5,3,4,5,6,6,3,4,5,6,6,...
...
MAPLE
with(ListTools);
psi:=proc(S)
Flatten(subs( {2=[3, 3], 3=[3, 4, 4], 4=[3, 4, 5, 5], 5=[3, 4, 5, 6, 6], 6=[3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7], 7=[3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8]}, S)); # This will only work for the first 7 generations. For further generations, extend the "subs" command
end;
S:=[2];
for n from 1 to 6 do S:=psi(S): od:
S;
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,tabf
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 29 2017
STATUS
approved