OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The direction of the first move is kept fixed.
The average number of steps of a random walk using such knight moves with forbidden crossing is 45 (compare to A322831).
LINKS
Hugo Pfoertner, Illustrations of rooted uncrossed knight's paths of length <= 3, (2019).
EXAMPLE
a(1) = 1: The fixed initial move.
a(2) = 7: Relative to the direction given by the initial move, there are 7 possible direction changes. The backward direction is illegal for the self-avoiding uncrossed path. Only for the right angle turn its mirror image would coincide with the turn in the opposite direction. Therefore this move would be eliminated in the unrooted walks, making a(2) > A323132(2) = 6.
a(3) = 47: 2 of all 7*7 = 49 continuation moves already lead to a crossing of the first path segment.
See illustrations at Pfoertner link.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,walk,more,hard
AUTHOR
Hugo Pfoertner, Jan 05 2019
EXTENSIONS
Erroneous (as pointed out by Bert Dobbelaere) a(8) and a(10) corrected by Hugo Pfoertner, Jan 18 2019
a(12)-a(16) from Bert Dobbelaere, Jan 18 2019
STATUS
approved