A329512 Array read by upward antidiagonals: row n = coordination sequence for cylinder formed by rolling up a strip of width 2*n hexagons cut from the hexagonal grid by cuts perpendicular to grid lines.

1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 3, 6, 4, 1, 3, 6, 9, 4, 1, 3, 6, 9, 9, 4, 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 8, 4, 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 8, 4, 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 14, 8, 4, 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 12, 8, 4, 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 12, 8, 4

Offset

1,3

Comments

The width of the strip is a little harder to define here. In the illustration for n=2, the strip is four hexagons wide if measured along hexagons that touch edge-to-edge. A path joining two vertices to be identified when the cylinder is formed has length 4n edges (8 edges in the illustration for n=2).

For the case when the strip is 2*n+1 hexagons wide see A329515.

For the case when the cuts are parallel to the grid lines, see A329508.

See A329501 and A329504 for coordination sequences for cylinders formed by rolling up the square grid.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..66.

Chaim Goodman-Strauss and N. J. A. Sloane, A Coloring Book Approach to Finding Coordination Sequences, Acta Cryst. A75 (2019), 121-134, also on NJAS's home page. Also arXiv:1803.08530.

N. J. A. Sloane, Illustration for row n = 1, showing vertices of cylinder of width (or circumference) 2 labeled with distance from base point 0. The cylinder is formed by identifying the black lines. Arrows indicate two points which will coalesce.

N. J. A. Sloane, Illustration for row n = 2, showing vertices of cylinder of width (or circumference) 4 labeled with distance from base point 0. The cylinder is formed by identifying the black lines. Arrows indicate two points which will coalesce.

Index entries for coordination sequences

Formula

The g.f.s for the rows could be found using the "trunks and branches" method (see Goodman-Strauss and Sloane), as was done in A329508. This step has not yet been carried out, so the following g.f. is at present only conjectural.

The g.f. G(n) for row n (n>=1) is (strongly) conjectured to be

(1/(1-x))*(1 + 2*x + 3*x^2*(1-x^(2*n-2))/(1-x) - (n-2)*x^(2*n) - (n-1)*x^(2*n+1)).

The values of G(1) through G(6) (certified by MAGMA) are:

(1+x)^2/(1-x),

(x^3-2*x^2-1)*(1+x)^2/(x-1),

(2*x^5-3*x^4+x^3-2*x^2-1)*(1+x)^2/(x-1),

(3*x^7-4*x^6+2*x^5-3*x^4+x^3-2*x^2-1)*(1+x)^2/(x-1),

(4*x^9-5*x^8+3*x^7-4*x^6+2*x^5-3*x^4+x^3-2*x^2-1)*(1+x)^2/(x-1),

(5*x^11-6*x^10+4*x^9-5*x^8+3*x^7-4*x^6+2*x^5-3*x^4+x^3-2*x^2-1)*(1+x)^2/(x-1).

Note that row n is equal to 4*n once the (2*n+1)-st term has been reached.

The g.f.s for the rows can also be obtained by regarding the 1-skeleton of the cylinder as the Cayley diagram for an appropriate group H, and computing the growth function for H (see the MAGMA code).

Example

Array begins:
1, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, ...
1, 3, 6, 9, 9, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, ...
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 14, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, ...
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 19, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, ...
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 24, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, ...
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 29, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, ...
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, 34, 28, 28, 28, 28, 28, ...
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42, 45, 39, 32, 32, 32, ...
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42, 45, 48, 51, 44, 36, 36, ...
...
The initial antidiagonals are:
1,
1, 3,
1, 3, 4,
1, 3, 6, 4,
1, 3, 6, 9, 4,
1, 3, 6, 9, 9, 4,
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 8, 4,
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 8, 4,
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 14, 8, 4,
1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 12, 8, 4,
...

Prog

(Magma)
n := 2; \\ set n
R<x> := RationalFunctionField(Integers());
FG3<R, S, T> := FreeGroup(3);
Q3 := quo<FG3| R^2, S^2, T^2, R*S*T = T*S*R, (S*T*S*R)^(2*n) >;
H := AutomaticGroup(Q3);
f3 := GrowthFunction(H);
PSR := PowerSeriesRing(Integers():Precision := 60);
Coefficients(PSR!f3);
// 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 14, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, ... (row n)
f3; // G(n)
// (x^3-2*x^2-1)*(1+x)^2/(x-1)

Crossrefs

Rows 1,2,3 are A113311, A329513, A329514.

Cf. A008486, A329501-A329517.

Sequence in context: A245093 A104765 A308690 * A064884 A093560 A173934

Adjacent sequences: A329509 A329510 A329511 * A329513 A329514 A329515

Keyword

nonn,tabl,easy

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 24 2019

Status

approved