OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
The degree of symmetry of a grand Dyck path is defined as the number of steps in the first half that are mirror images of steps in the second half, with respect to the reflection along a vertical line through the midpoint of the path.
LINKS
Sergi Elizalde, The degree of symmetry of lattice paths, arXiv:2002.12874 [math.CO], 2020.
Sergi Elizalde, Measuring symmetry in lattice paths and partitions, Sem. Lothar. Combin. 84B.26, 12 pp (2020).
FORMULA
G.f.: 1/(2(1-u)z+sqrt(1-4z)).
EXAMPLE
For n=3 there are 4 grand Dyck paths with degree of symmetry equal to 0, namely uddduu, uudddu, duuudd, dduuud.
The triangle begins:
1
0 2
2 0 4
4 8 0 8
14 16 24 0 16
44 64 48 64 0 32
148 208 216 128 160 0 64
504 736 720 640 320 384 0 128
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,tabl
AUTHOR
Sergi Elizalde, Feb 12 2021
STATUS
approved