OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Counts lower triangular (0,1) matrices with 1's on the diagonal which cannot be decomposed in a nontrivial block diagonal fashion. For example, the third time is 5, counting the matrices [100,110,111], [100,110,011], [100,010,111], [100,110,101], [100,010,101]. There are 3 other 3x3 lower triangular (0,1) matrices with 1's on the diagonal; those others have block decompositions. - David Speyer, Jul 09 2025
LINKS
Michael De Vlieger, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..81
Johann Cigler, Hankel determinants of backward shifts of powers of q, arXiv:2407.05768 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 6.
Mare et al., Counting lower triangular 0-1-matrices with connected Coxeter permutation, MathOverflow, 2025.
FORMULA
a(0) = 1; a(n) = -a(n-1) + Sum_{k=0..n-1} 2^(k+1) * a(k) * a(n-k-1).
a(n) ~ 2^(n*(n+1)/2). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Nov 03 2021
G.f. A(x) satisfies 1/(1 - x*A(x)) = Sum_{n>=0} 2^(n(n-1)/2) * x^n. - David Speyer, Jul 09 2025
MATHEMATICA
nmax = 15; A[_] = 0; Do[A[x_] = 1/(1 + x - 2 x A[2 x]) + O[x]^(nmax + 1) // Normal, nmax + 1]; CoefficientList[A[x], x]
a[0] = 1; a[n_] := a[n] = -a[n - 1] + Sum[2^(k + 1) a[k] a[n - k - 1], {k, 0, n - 1}]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 15}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Ilya Gutkovskiy, Nov 03 2021
STATUS
approved
