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A001515 Bessel polynomial y_n(x) evaluated at x=1.

1, 2, 7, 37, 266, 2431, 27007, 353522, 5329837, 90960751, 1733584106, 36496226977, 841146804577, 21065166341402, 569600638022431, 16539483668991901, 513293594376771362, 16955228098102446847, 593946277027962411007, 21992967478132711654106, 858319677924203716921141

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

For some applications it is better to start this sequence with an extra 1 at the beginning: 1, 1, 2, 37, 266, 2431, 27007, 353522, 5329837, ... (again with offset 0). This sequence now has its own entry - see A144301.
Number of partitions of {1,...,k}, n <= k <= 2n, into n blocks with no more than 2 elements per block. Restated, number of ways to use the elements of {1,...,k}, n <= k <= 2n, once each to form a collection of n sets, each having 1 or 2 elements. - Bob Proctor, Apr 18 2005, Jun 26 2006. E.g., for n=2 we get: (k=2): {1,2}; (k=3): {1,23}, {2,13}, {3,12}; (k=4): {12,34}, {13,24}, {14,23}, for a total of a(2) = 7 partitions.
Equivalently, number of sequences of n unlabeled items such that each item occurs just once or twice (cf. A105749). - David Applegate, Dec 08 2008
Numerator of (n+1)-th convergent to 1+tanh(1). - Benoit Cloitre, Dec 20 2002
The following Maple lines show how this sequence and A144505, A144498, A001514, A144513, A144506, A144514, A144507, A144301 are related.
f0:=proc(n) local k; add((n+k)!/((n-k)!*k!*2^k),k=0..n); end; [seq(f0(n),n=0..10)];
# that is this sequence
f1:=proc(n) local k; add((n+k+1)!/((n-k)!*k!*2^k),k=0..n); end; [seq(f1(n),n=0..10)];
# that is A144498
f2:=proc(n) local k; add((n+k+2)!/((n-k)!*k!*2^k),k=0..n); end; [seq(f2(n),n=0..10)];
# that is A144513; divided by 2 gives A001514
f3:=proc(n) local k; add((n+k+3)!/((n-k)!*k!*2^k),k=0..n); end; [seq(f3(n),n=0..10)];
# that is A144514; divided by 6 gives A144506
f4:=proc(n) local k; add((n+k+4)!/((n-k)!*k!*2^k),k=0..n); end; [seq(f4(n),n=0..10)];
# that divided by 24 gives A144507
a(n) is also the numerator of the continued fraction sequence beginning with 2 followed by 3 and the remaining odd numbers: [2,3,5,7,9,11,13,...]. - Gil Broussard, Oct 07 2009
Also, number of scenarios in the Gift Exchange Game when a gift can be stolen at most once. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 25 2017

			The first few Bessel polynomials are (cf. A001497, A001498):
  y_0 = 1
  y_1 = 1 +   x
  y_2 = 1 + 3*x +  3*x^2
  y_3 = 1 + 6*x + 15*x^2 + 15*x^3, etc.
G.f. = 1 + 2*x + 7*x^2 + 37*x^3 + 266*x^4 + 2431*x^5 + 27007*x^6 + 353522*x^7 + ...

J. Riordan, Combinatorial Identities, Wiley, 1968, p. 77.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..404 (first 101 terms from T. D. Noe)
Moa Apagodu, David Applegate, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, Analysis of the Gift Exchange Problem, arXiv:1701.08394 [math.CO], 2017.
Moa Apagodu, David Applegate, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, On-Line Appendix I to "Analysis of the gift exchange problem", giving Type D recurrences for G_1(n) through G_15(n) (see A001515, A144416, A144508, A144509, A149187, A281358-A281361)
Moa Apagodu, David Applegate, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, On-Line Appendix II to "Analysis of the gift exchange problem", giving Type C recurrences for G_1(n) through G_15(n) (see A001515, A144416, A144508, A144509, A149187, A281358-A281361)
David Applegate and N. J. A. Sloane, The Gift Exchange Problem, arXiv:0907.0513 [math.CO], 2009.
Veronica Bitonti, Bishal Deb, and Alan D. Sokal, Thron-type continued fractions (T-fractions) for some classes of increasing trees, arXiv:2412.10214 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 58.
P. Blasiak, A. Horzela, K. A. Penson, G.H.E. Duchamp and A. I. Solomon, Boson normal ordering via substitutions and Sheffer-type polynomials, arXiv:quant-ph/0501155, 2005.
Dmitry Efimov, The hafnian of Toeplitz matrices of a special type, perfect matchings and Bessel polynomials, arXiv:1904.08651 [math.CO], 2019.
Andrew Francis and Michael Hendriksen, Counting spinal phylogenetic networks, arXiv:2502.14223 [q-bio.PE], 2025. See p. 11.
O. Frink and H. L. Krall, A new class of orthogonal polynomials, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 65,100-115, 1945. [From _Roger L. Bagula_, Feb 15 2009]
E. Grosswald, Bessel Polynomials, Lecture Notes Math., Vol. 698, 1978.
Wolfdieter Lang, On generalizations of Stirling number triangles, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 3 (2000), #00.2.4.
Toufik Mansour, Matthias Schork and Mark Shattuck, On the Stirling numbers associated with the meromorphic Weyl algebra, Applied Mathematics Letters, Volume 25, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 1767-1771. - From _N. J. A. Sloane_, Sep 15 2012
Wojciech Mlotkowski and Anna Romanowicz, A family of sequences of binomial type, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 33, Fasc. 2 (2013), pp. 401-408.
Robert A. Proctor, Let's Expand Rota's Twelvefold Way for Counting Partitions!, arXiv:math/0606404 [math.CO], 2006-2007.
J. Riordan, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Jul. 1968
J. Riordan, Notes to N. J. A. Sloane, Jul. 1968
N. J. A. Sloane, Letter to J. Riordan, Nov. 1970
Index entries for sequences related to Bessel functions or polynomials
Index entries for related partition-counting sequences

Cf. A000108, A000806, A001514, A105749, A143990, A144505, A144506, A144507, A144513, A144514.
See A144301 for other formulas and comments.
Row sums of Bessel triangle A001497 as well as of A001498.
Partial sums: A105748.
First differences: A144498.
Replace "sets" with "lists" in comment: A001517.
The gift scenarios sequences when a gift can be stolen at most s times, for s = 1..9, are this sequence, A144416, A144508, A144509, A149187, A281358, A281359, A281360, A281361.

a001515 = sum . a001497_row -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 24 2014

[(&+[Binomial(n+j, 2*j)*Catalan(j)*Factorial(j+1)/2^j: j in [0..n]]): n in [0..30]]; // G. C. Greubel, Sep 26 2023

A001515 := proc(n) option remember; if n=0 then 1 elif n=1 then 2 else (2*n-1)*A001515(n-1)+A001515(n-2); fi; end;
A001515:=proc(n) local k; add( (n+k)!/((n-k)!*k!*2^k),k=0..n); end;
A001515:= n-> hypergeom( [n+1,-n],[],-1/2);
bessel := proc(n,x) add(binomial(n+k,2*k)*(2*k)!*x^k/(k!*2^k),k=0..n); end;

RecurrenceTable[{a[0]==1,a[1]==2,a[n]==(2n-1)a[n-1]+a[n-2]},a[n], {n,25}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jun 18 2011 *)
Table[Sum[BellY[n+1, k, (2 Range[n+1] - 3)!!], {k, n+1}], {n, 0, 20}] (* Vladimir Reshetnikov, Nov 09 2016 *)

{a(n) = if( n<0, n = -1 - n); sum( k=0, n, (2*n - k)! / (k! * (n-k)!) * 2^(k-n))} /* Michael Somos, Apr 08 2012 */

[sum(binomial(n+j,2*j)*binomial(2*j,j)*factorial(j)//2^j for j in range(n+1)) for n in range(31)] # G. C. Greubel, Sep 26 2023

The following formulas can all be found in (or are easily derived from formulas in) Grosswald's book.
D-finite with recurrence: a(0) = 1, a(1) = 2; thereafter a(n) = (2*n-1)*a(n-1) + a(n-2).
E.g.f.: exp(1-sqrt(1-2*x))/sqrt(1-2*x).
a(n) = Sum_{ k = 0..n } binomial(n+k,2*k)*(2*k)!/(k!*2^k).
Equivalently, a(n) = Sum_{ k = 0..n } (n+k)!/((n-k)!*k!*2^k) = Sum_{ k = n..2n } k!/((2n-k)!*(k-n)!*2^(k-n)).
a(n) = Hypergeometric2F0( [n+1, -n] ; - ; -1/2).
a(n) = A105749(n)/n!.
a(n) ~ exp(1)*(2n)!/(n!*2^n) as n -> oo. [See Grosswald, p. 124]
a(n) = A144301(n+1).
G.f.: 1/(1-x-x/(1-x-2*x/(1-x-3*x/(1-x-4*x/(1-x-5*x/(1-.... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Feb 08 2009
From Michael Somos, Apr 08 2012: (Start)
a(-1 - n) = a(n).
(a(n+1) + a(n+2))^2 = a(n)*a(n+2) + a(n+1)*a(n+3) for all integer n. (End)
G.f.: 1/G(0) where G(k) = 1 - x - x*(2*k+1)/(1 - x - 2*x*(k+1)/G(k+1)); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Oct 05 2012
E.g.f.: E(0)/(2*sqrt(1-2*x)), where E(k) = 1 + 1/(1 - 2*x/(2*x + (k+1)*(1+sqrt(1-2*x))/E(k+1))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, May 23 2013
G.f.: T(0)/(1-x), where T(k) = 1 - (k+1)*x/((k+1)*x - (1-x)^2/T(k+1) ); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Nov 15 2013
a(n) = (2*BesselI(1/2, 1)+BesselI(3/2, 1))*BesselK(n+1/2, 1). - Jean-François Alcover, Feb 03 2014
a(n) = exp(1)*sqrt(2/Pi)*BesselK(1/2+n,1). - Gerry Martens, Jul 22 2015
From Peter Bala, Apr 14 2017: (Start)
a(n) = (1/n!)*Integral_{x = 0..inf} exp(-x)*x^n*(1 + x/2)^n dx.
E.g.f.: d/dx( exp(x*c(x/2)) ) = 1 + 2*x + 7*x^2/2! + 37*x^3/3! + ..., where c(x) = (1 - sqrt(1 - 4*x))/(2*x) is the g.f. of the Catalan numbers A000108. (End)
From G. C. Greubel, Aug 16 2017: (Start)
a(n) = (1/2)_{n} * 2^n * hypergeometric1f1(-n; -2*n; 2).
G.f.: (1/(1-t))*hypergeometric2f0(1, 1/2; -; 2*t/(1-t)^2). (End)

Extensively edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 07 2008

A001498 Triangle a(n,k) (n >= 0, 0 <= k <= n) of coefficients of Bessel polynomials y_n(x) (exponents in increasing order).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 6, 15, 15, 1, 10, 45, 105, 105, 1, 15, 105, 420, 945, 945, 1, 21, 210, 1260, 4725, 10395, 10395, 1, 28, 378, 3150, 17325, 62370, 135135, 135135, 1, 36, 630, 6930, 51975, 270270, 945945, 2027025, 2027025, 1, 45, 990, 13860, 135135, 945945, 4729725, 16216200, 34459425, 34459425

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

The row polynomials with exponents in increasing order (e.g., third row: 1+3x+3x^2) are Grosswald's y_{n}(x) polynomials, p. 18, Eq. (7).
Also called Bessel numbers of first kind.
The triangle a(n,k) has factorization [C(n,k)][C(k,n-k)]Diag((2n-1)!!) The triangle a(n-k,k) is A100861, which gives coefficients of scaled Hermite polynomials. - Paul Barry, May 21 2005
Related to k-matchings of the complete graph K_n by a(n,k)=A100861(n+k,k). Related to the Morgan-Voyce polynomials by a(n,k)=(2k-1)!!*A085478(n,k). - Paul Barry, Aug 17 2005
Related to Hermite polynomials by a(n,k)=(-1)^k*A060821(n+k, n-k)/2^n. - Paul Barry, Aug 28 2005
The row polynomials, the Bessel polynomials y(n,x):=Sum_{m=0..n} (a(n,m)*x^m) (called y_{n}(x) in the Grosswald reference) satisfy (x^2)*(d^2/dx^2)y(n,x) + 2*(x+1)*(d/dx)y(n,x) - n*(n+1)*y(n,x) = 0.
a(n-1, m-1), n >= m >= 1, enumerates unordered n-vertex forests composed of m plane (aka ordered) increasing (rooted) trees. Proof from the e.g.f. of the first column Y(z):=1-sqrt(1-2*z) (offset 1) and the Bergeron et al. eq. (8) Y'(z)= phi(Y(z)), Y(0)=0, with out-degree o.g.f. phi(w)=1/(1-w). See their remark on p. 28 on plane recursive trees. For m=1 see the D. Callan comment on A001147 from Oct 26 2006. - Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 14 2007
The asymptotic expansions of the higher order exponential integrals E(x,m,n), see A163931 for information, lead to the Bessel numbers of the first kind in an intriguing way. For the first four values of m these asymptotic expansions lead to the triangles A130534 (m=1), A028421 (m=2), A163932 (m=3) and A163934 (m=4). The o.g.f.s. of the right hand columns of these triangles in their turn lead to the triangles A163936 (m=1), A163937 (m=2), A163938 (m=3) and A163939 (m=4). The row sums of these four triangles lead to A001147, A001147 (minus a(0)), A001879 and A000457 which are the first four right hand columns of A001498. We checked this phenomenon for a few more values of m and found that this pattern persists: m = 5 leads to A001880, m=6 to A001881, m=7 to A038121 and m=8 to A130563 which are the next four right hand columns of A001498. So one by one all columns of the triangle of coefficients of Bessel polynomials appear. - Johannes W. Meijer, Oct 07 2009
a(n,k) also appear as coefficients of (n+1)st degree of the differential operator D:=1/t d/dt, namely D^{n+1}= Sum_{k=0..n} a(n,k) (-1)^{n-k} t^{1-(n+k)} (d^{n+1-k}/dt^{n+1-k}. - Leonid Bedratyuk, Aug 06 2010
a(n-1,k) are the coefficients when expanding (xI)^n in terms of powers of I. Let I(f)(x) := Integral_{a..x} f(t) dt, and (xI)^n := x Integral_{a..x} [ x_{n-1} Integral_{a..x_{n-1}} [ x_{n-2} Integral_{a..x_{n-2}} ... [ x_1 Integral_{a..x_1} f(t) dt ] dx_1 ] .. dx_{n-2} ] dx_{n-1}. Then: (xI)^n = Sum_{k=0..n-1} (-1)^k * a(n-1,k) * x^(n-k) * I^(n+k)(f)(x) where I^(n) denotes iterated integration. - Abdelhay Benmoussa, Apr 11 2025

			The triangle a(n, k), n >= 0, k = 0..n, begins:
  1
  1  1
  1  3   3
  1  6  15    15
  1 10  45   105    105
  1 15 105   420    945    945
  1 21 210  1260   4725  10395   10395
  1 28 378  3150  17325  62370  135135   135135
  1 36 630  6930  51975 270270  945945  2027025  2027025
  1 45 990 13860 135135 945945 4729725 16216200 34459425 34459425
  ...
And the first few Bessel polynomials are:
  y_0(x) = 1,
  y_1(x) = x + 1,
  y_2(x) = 3*x^2 + 3*x + 1,
  y_3(x) = 15*x^3 + 15*x^2 + 6*x + 1,
  y_4(x) = 105*x^4 + 105*x^3 + 45*x^2 + 10*x + 1,
  y_5(x) = 945*x^5 + 945*x^4 + 420*x^3 + 105*x^2 + 15*x + 1,
  ...
Tree counting: a(2,1)=3 for the unordered forest of m=2 plane increasing trees with n=3 vertices, namely one tree with one vertex (root) and another tree with two vertices (a root and a leaf), labeled increasingly as (1, 23), (2,13) and (3,12). - _Wolfdieter Lang_, Sep 14 2007

J. Riordan, Combinatorial Identities, Wiley, 1968, p. 77.

T. D. Noe, Rows n=0..50 of triangle, flattened
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Juan Antonio Barcelo and Anthony Carbery, On the magnitudes of compact sets in Euclidean spaces, arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02502 [math.MG], 2015.
François Bergeron, Philippe Flajolet, and Bruno Salvy, Varieties of Increasing Trees, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 581, ed. J.-C. Raoult, Springer 1922, pp. 24-48.
Alexander W. Boldyreff, Decomposition of Rational Fractions into Partial Fractions, Nat. Math. Mag. 17 (6) (1943), 261-267; coefficients (m)N(r).
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H. L. Krall and Orrin Frink, A new class of orthogonal polynomials, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 65, 100-115, 1949.
Wolfdieter Lang, On generalizations of Stirling number triangles, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 3 (2000), #00.2.4.
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Guillermo Navas-Palencia, On the computation of the cumulative distribution function of the Normal Inverse Gaussian distribution, arXiv:2502.16015 [math.NA], 2025. See p. 25.
Andrew Elvey Price and Alan D. Sokal, Phylogenetic trees, augmented perfect matchings, and a Thron-type continued fraction (T-fraction) for the Ward polynomials, arXiv:2001.01468 [math.CO], 2020.
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Index entries for sequences related to Bessel functions or polynomials

Cf. A001497 (same triangle but rows read in reverse order). Other versions of this same triangle are given in A144331, A144299, A111924 and A100861.
Columns from left edge include A000217, A050534.
Columns 1-6 from right edge are A001147, A001879, A000457, A001880, A001881, A038121.
Bessel polynomials evaluated at certain x are A001515 (x=1, row sums), A000806 (x=-1), A001517 (x=2), A002119 (x=-2), A001518 (x=3), A065923 (x=-3), A065919 (x=4). Cf. A043301, A003215.
Cf. A245066 (central terms). A113025 (y_n(2*x)).

a001498 n k = a001498_tabl !! n !! k
a001498_row n = a001498_tabl !! n
a001498_tabl = map reverse a001497_tabl
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 11 2014

/* As triangle: */ [[Factorial(n+k)/(2^k*Factorial(n-k)*Factorial(k)): k in [0..n]]: n in [0.. 15]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Feb 15 2016

Bessel := proc(n,x) add(binomial(n+k,2*k)*(2*k)!*x^k/(k!*2^k),k=0..n); end; # explicit Bessel polynomials
Bessel := proc(n) option remember; if n <=1 then (1+x)^n else (2*n-1)*x*Bessel(n-1)+Bessel(n-2); fi; end; # recurrence for Bessel polynomials
bessel := proc(n,x) add(binomial(n+k,2*k)*(2*k)!*x^k/(k!*2^k),k=0..n); end;
f := proc(n) option remember; if n <=1 then (1+x)^n else (2*n-1)*x*f(n-1)+f(n-2); fi; end;
# Alternative:
T := (n,k) -> pochhammer(n+1,k)*binomial(n,k)/2^k:
for n from 0 to 9 do seq(T(n,k), k=0..n) od; # Peter Luschny, May 11 2018
T := proc(n, k) option remember; if k = 0 then 1 else if k = n then T(n, k-1)
else (n - k + 1)* T(n, k - 1) + T(n - 1, k) fi fi end:
for n from 0 to 9 do seq(T(n, k), k = 0..n) od;  # Peter Luschny, Oct 02 2023

max=50; Flatten[Table[(n+k)!/(2^k*(n-k)!*k!), {n, 0, Sqrt[2 max]//Ceiling}, {k, 0, n}]][[1 ;; max]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 20 2011 *)

{T(n,k)=if(k<0||k>n, 0, binomial(n, k)*(n+k)!/2^k/n!)} /* Michael Somos, Oct 03 2006 */

A001497_ser(N,t='t) = {
  my(x='x+O('x^(N+2)));
  serlaplace(deriv(exp((1-sqrt(1-2*t*x))/t),'x));
};
concat(apply(Vecrev, Vec(A001497_ser(9)))) \\ Gheorghe Coserea, Dec 27 2017

a(n, k) = (n+k)!/(2^k*(n-k)!*k!) (see Grosswald and Riordan). - Ralf Stephan, Apr 20 2004
a(n, 0)=1; a(0, k)=0, k > 0; a(n, k) = a(n-1, k) + (n-k+1) * a(n, k-1) = a(n-1, k) + (n+k-1) * a(n-1, k-1). - Len Smiley
a(n, m) = A001497(n, n-m) = A001147(m)*binomial(n+m, 2*m) for n >= m >= 0, otherwise 0.
G.f. for m-th column: (A001147(m)*x^m)/(1-x)^(2*m+1), m >= 0, where A001147(m) = double factorials (from explicit a(n, m) form).
Row polynomials y_n(x) are given by D^(n+1)(exp(t)) evaluated at t = 0, where D is the operator 1/(1-t*x)*d/dt. - Peter Bala, Nov 25 2011
G.f.: conjecture: T(0)/(1-x), where T(k) = 1 - x*y*(k+1)/(x*y*(k+1) - (1-x)^2/T(k+1)); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Nov 13 2013
Recurrence from Grosswald, p. 18, eq. (5), for the row polynomials: y_n(x) = (2*n-1)*x*y_{n-1} + y_{n-2}(x), y_{-1}(x) = 1 = y_{0} = 1, n >= 1. This becomes, for n >= 0, k = 0..n: a(n, k) = 0 for n < k (zeros not shown in the triangle), a(n, -1) = 0, a(0, 0) = 1 = a(1, 0) and otherwise a(n, k) = (2*n-1)*a(n-1, k-1) + a(n-2, k). Compare with the above given recurrences. - Wolfdieter Lang, May 11 2018
T(n, k) = Pochhammer(n+1,k)*binomial(n,k)/2^k = A113025(n,k)/2^k. - Peter Luschny, May 11 2018
a(n, k) = Sum_{i=0..min(n-1, k)} (n-i)(k-i) * a(n-1, i) where x(n) = x*(x-1)*...*(x-n+1) is the falling factorial, this equality follows directly from the operational formula we wrote in Apr 11 2025.- Abdelhay Benmoussa, May 18 2025

A006145 Ruth-Aaron numbers (1): sum of prime divisors of n = sum of prime divisors of n+1.

Original entry on oeis.org

5, 24, 49, 77, 104, 153, 369, 492, 714, 1682, 2107, 2299, 2600, 2783, 5405, 6556, 6811, 8855, 9800, 12726, 13775, 18655, 21183, 24024, 24432, 24880, 25839, 26642, 35456, 40081, 43680, 48203, 48762, 52554, 61760, 63665, 64232, 75140, 79118, 95709, 106893, 109939

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

nonn

Nelson, Penney, & Pomerance call these "Aaron numbers" because 714 is Babe Ruth's lifetime home run record, Hank Aaron's 715th home run broke this record, and 714 and 715 have the same sum of prime divisors. - David W. Wilson

Number of terms < 10^n: 1, 4, 9, 19, 40, 139, 494, 1748, 6650, ..., . - Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 23 2012

John L. Drost, Ruth/Aaron Pairs, J. Recreational Math. 28 (No. 2), 120-122.
P. Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, pp. 179-181, Hyperion, NY 1998.
J. Roberts, Lure of Integers, pp. 250, MAA 1992.
D. Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, pp. 159-160, Penguin 1986.

Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (terms 1..6651 from Robert G. Wilson v)
Joe K. Crump, Ruth-Aaron Pairs-an algorithm
Shyam Sunder Gupta, Smith Numbers, Exploring the Beauty of Fascinating Numbers, Springer (2025) Ch. 4, 127-157.
Brady Haran and Carl Pomerance, Aaron Numbers, Numberphile video (2017).
G. Kreweras and Y. Poupard, Sur les partitions en paires d'un ensemble fini totalement ordonné, Publications de l'Institut de Statistique de l'Université de Paris, 23 (1978), 57-74. (Annotated scanned copy)
Dana Mackenzie, Homage to an Itinerant Master, Science, Vol. 275 (1997), p. 759; alternative link.
Carol Nelson, David E. Penney, and Carl Pomerance, 714 and 715, J. Recreational Math. 7:2 (1994), pp. 87-89.
Ivars Peterson, Playing with Ruth-Aaron pairs
Terry Trotter, Jr., Ruth-Aaron Numbers.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Ruth-Aaron Pair.

Cf. A006146, A039752, A039753, A054378.

with(numtheory): for n from 1 to 10000 do t0 := 0; t1 := factorset(n);
for j from 1 to nops(t1) do t0 := t0+t1[ j ]; od: s[ n ] := t0; od:
for n from 1 to 9999 do if s[ n ] = s[ n+1 ] then lprint(n,s[ n ]); fi; od:
# Alternative:
SumPF := proc(n) option remember; add(NumberTheory:-PrimeFactors(n)) end:
seq(ifelse(SumPF(n) = SumPF(n+1), n, NULL), n = 1..3000); # Peter Luschny, Jun 11 2024

fQ[n_] := Plus @@ (First@# & /@ FactorInteger[n]) == Plus @@ (First@# & /@ FactorInteger[n + 1]); Select[ Range@ 100000, fQ] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 22 2012 *)

sopf(n)=my(f=factor(n));sum(i=1,#f[,1],f[i,1])
is(n)=sopf(n)==sopf(n+1) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 27 2012

from sympy import factorint
def aupton(terms):
  alst, k, sopfk, sopfkp1 = [], 2, 2, 3
  while len(alst) < terms:
    if sopfkp1 == sopfk: alst.append(k)
    k, sopfk, sopfkp1 = k+1, sopfkp1, sum(p for p in factorint(k+2))
  return alst
print(aupton(42)) # Michael S. Branicky, May 24 2021

A003436 Number of inequivalent labeled Hamiltonian circuits on n-octahedron. Interlacing chords joining 2n points on circle.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 1, 4, 31, 293, 3326, 44189, 673471, 11588884, 222304897, 4704612119, 108897613826, 2737023412199, 74236203425281, 2161288643251828, 67228358271588991, 2225173863019549229, 78087247031912850686, 2896042595237791161749, 113184512236563589997407

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Also called the relaxed ménage problem (cf. A000179).
a(n) can be seen as a subset of the unordered pairings of the first 2n integers (A001147) with forbidden pairs (1,2n) and (i,i+1) for all i in [1,2n-1] (all adjacent integers modulo 2n). The linear version of this constraint is A000806. - Olivier Gérard, Feb 08 2011
Number of perfect matchings in the complement of C_{2n} where C_{2n} is the cycle graph on 2n vertices. - Andrew Howroyd, Mar 15 2016
Also the number of 2-uniform set partitions of {1...2n} containing no two cyclically successive vertices in the same block. - Gus Wiseman, Feb 27 2019

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
F. R. Bernhart & N. J. A. Sloane, Emails, April-May 1994
Kenneth P. Bogart and Peter G. Doyle, Nonsexist solution of the menage problem, Amer. Math. Monthly 93:7 (1986), 514-519.
Robert Cori and G. Hetyei, Counting partitions of a fixed genus, arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09992 [math.CO], 2017.
M. Hazewinkel and V. V. Kalashnikov, Counting Interlacing Pairs on the Circle, CWI report AM-R9508 (1995)
Evgeniy Krasko, Igor Labutin, and Alexander Omelchenko, Enumeration of Labelled and Unlabelled Hamiltonian Cycles in Complete k-partite Graphs, arXiv:1709.03218 [math.CO], 2017.
E. Krasko and A. Omelchenko, Enumeration of Chord Diagrams without Loops and Parallel Chords, arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05073 [math.CO], 2016.
E. Krasko and A. Omelchenko, Enumeration of Chord Diagrams without Loops and Parallel Chords, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 24(3) (2017), #P3.43.
D. Singmaster, Hamiltonian circuits on the n-dimensional octahedron, J. Combinatorial Theory Ser. B 19 (1975), no. 1, 1-4.
Gus Wiseman, The a(5) = 293 interlacing chord diagrams.

Cf. A003435, A129348. A003437 gives unlabeled case.
First differences of A000806.
Column k=2 of A324428.
Cf. A000179, A000296, A000699, A001147, A005493, A170941, A190823, A278990, A306386, A306419, A322402, A324011, A324172, A324173.

A003436 := proc(n) local k;
      if n = 0 then 1
    elif n = 1 then 0
    else add( (-1)^k*binomial(n,k)*2*n/(2*n-k)*2^k*(2*n-k)!/2^n/n!,k=0..n) ;
    end if;
end proc: # R. J. Mathar, Dec 11 2013
A003436 := n-> `if`(n<2, 1-n, (-1)^n*2*hypergeom([n, -n], [], 1/2)):
seq(simplify(A003436(n)), n=0..18); # Peter Luschny, Nov 10 2016

a[n_] := (2*n-1)!! * Hypergeometric1F1[-n, 1-2*n, -2]; a[1] = 0;
Table[a[n], {n, 0, 19}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Apr 05 2013 *)
twounifll[{}]:={{}};twounifll[set:{i_,_}]:=Join@@Function[s,Prepend[#,s]&/@twounifll[Complement[set,s]]]/@Table[{i,j},{j,If[i==1,Select[set,2<#i+1&]]}];
Table[Length[twounifll[Range[n]]],{n,0,14,2}] (* Gus Wiseman, Feb 27 2019 *)

a(n) = A003435(n)/(n!*2^n).
a(n) = 2*n*a(n-1)-2*(n-3)*a(n-2)-a(n-3) for n>4. [Corrected by Vasu Tewari, Apr 11 2010, and by R. J. Mathar, Oct 02 2013]
G.f.: x + ((1-x)/(1+x)) * Sum_{n>=0} A001147(n)*(x/(1+x)^2)^n. - Vladeta Jovovic, Jun 27 2007
a(n) ~ 2^(n+1/2)*n^n/exp(n+1). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Aug 13 2013
a(n) = (-1)^n*2*hypergeom([n, -n], [], 1/2) for n >= 2. - Peter Luschny, Nov 10 2016

a(0)=1 prepended by Gus Wiseman, Feb 27 2019

A058798 a(n) = n*a(n-1) - a(n-2) with a(0) = 0, a(1) = 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 2, 5, 18, 85, 492, 3359, 26380, 234061, 2314230, 25222469, 300355398, 3879397705, 54011212472, 806288789375, 12846609417528, 217586071308601, 3903702674137290, 73952764737299909, 1475151592071860890

Offset: 0

Christian G. Bower, Dec 02 2000

Note that a(n) = (a(n-1) + a(n+1))/(n+1). - T. D. Noe, Oct 12 2012; corrected by Gary Detlefs, Oct 26 2018
a(n) = log_2(A073888(n)) = log_3(A073889(n)).
a(n) equals minus the determinant of M(n+2) where M(n) is the n X n symmetric tridiagonal matrix with entries 1 just above and below its diagonal and diagonal entries 0, 1, 2, .., n-1. Example: M(4)=matrix([[0, 1, 0, 0], [1, 1, 1, 0], [0, 1, 2, 1], [0, 0, 1, 3]]). - Roland Bacher, Jun 19 2001
a(n) = A221913(n,-1), n>=1, is the numerator sequence of the n-th approximation of the continued fraction -(0 + K_{k>=1} (-1/k)) = 1/(1-1/(2-1/(3-1/(4-... The corresponding denominator sequence is A058797(n). - Wolfdieter Lang, Mar 08 2013
The recurrence equation a(n+1) = (A*n + B)*a(n) + C*a(n-1) with the initial conditions a(0) = 0, a(1) = 1 has the solution a(n) = Sum_{k = 0..floor((n-1)/2)} C^k*binomial(n-k-1,k)*( Product_{j = 1..n-2k-1} (k+j)*A + B ). This is the case A = 1, B = 1, C = -1. - Peter Bala, Aug 01 2013

			Continued fraction approximation 1/(1-1/(2-1/(3-1/4))) = 18/7 = a(4)/A058797(4). - _Wolfdieter Lang_, Mar 08 2013

Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..449
Svante Janson, A divergent generating function that can be summed and analysed analytically, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science; 2010, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1-22.

Column 1 of A007754.
Cf. A073888, A073889, A221913 (alternating row sums).
Other recurrences of this type: A001040, A036242, A036244, A053983, A053984, A053987, A058307, A058308, A058309, A058797, A058799, A075374, A106174, A121323, A121351, A121353, A121354, A222468, A222470.
Similar sequences: A000806, A001053, A007754, A025164, A093986, A159927, A222467, A222469.

a:=[1,2];; for n in [3..25] do a[n]:=n*a[n-1]-a[n-2]; od; Concatenation([0], a); # Muniru A Asiru, Oct 26 2018

[0] cat [n le 2 select n else n*Self(n-1)-Self(n-2): n in [1..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Sep 22 2016

t = {0, 1}; Do[AppendTo[t, n*t[[-1]] - t[[-2]]], {n, 2, 25}]; t (* T. D. Noe, Oct 12 2012 *)
nxt[{n_,a_,b_}]:={n+1,b,b*(n+1)-a}; Transpose[NestList[nxt,{1,0,1},20]] [[2]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 30 2015 *)

m=30; v=concat([1,2], vector(m-2)); for(n=3, m, v[n] = n*v[n-1]-v[n-2]); concat(0, v) \\ G. C. Greubel, Nov 24 2018

def A058798(n):
    if n < 3: return n
    return hypergeometric([1/2-n/2, 1-n/2],[2, 1-n, -n], -4)*factorial(n)
[simplify(A058798(n)) for n in (0..20)] # Peter Luschny, Sep 10 2014

a(n) = Sum_{k = 0..floor((n-1)/2)} (-1)^k*binomial(n-k-1,k)*(n-k)!/(k+1)!. - Peter Bala, Aug 01 2013
a(n) = A058797(n+1) + A058799(n-1). - Henry Bottomley, Feb 28 2001
a(n) = Pi*(BesselY(1, 2)*BesselJ(n+1, 2) - BesselJ(1,2)* BesselY(n+1,2)). See the Abramowitz-Stegun reference given under A103921, p. 361 eq. 9.1.27 (first line with Y, J and z=2) and p. 360, eq. 9.1.16 (Wronskian). - Wolfdieter Lang, Mar 05 2013
Limit_{n->oo} a(n)/n! = BesselJ(1,2) = 0.576724807756873... See a comment on asymptotics under A084950.
a(n) = n!*hypergeometric([1/2-n/2, 1-n/2], [2, 1-n, -n], -4) for n >= 2. - Peter Luschny, Sep 10 2014

New description from Amarnath Murthy, Aug 17 2002

A278990 Number of loopless linear chord diagrams with n chords.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 1, 5, 36, 329, 3655, 47844, 721315, 12310199, 234615096, 4939227215, 113836841041, 2850860253240, 77087063678521, 2238375706930349, 69466733978519340, 2294640596998068569, 80381887628910919255, 2976424482866702081004, 116160936719430292078411

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 07 2016

nonn

See the signed version of these numbers, A000806, for much more information about these numbers.
From Gus Wiseman, Feb 27 2019: (Start)
Also the number of 2-uniform set partitions of {1..2n} containing no two successive vertices in the same block. For example, the a(3) = 5 set partitions are:
  {{1,3},{2,5},{4,6}}
  {{1,4},{2,5},{3,6}}
  {{1,4},{2,6},{3,5}}
  {{1,5},{2,4},{3,6}}
  {{1,6},{2,4},{3,5}}
(End)
From Gus Wiseman, Jul 05 2020: (Start)
Also the number of permutations of the multiset {1,1,2,2,...,n,n} with no two consecutive terms equal and where the first i appears before the first j for i < j. For example, the a(3) = 5 permutations are the following.
  (1,2,3,1,2,3)
  (1,2,3,1,3,2)
  (1,2,3,2,1,3)
  (1,2,3,2,3,1)
  (1,2,1,3,2,3)
(End)

Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..404 (terms 0..200 from Gheorghe Coserea)
Dmitry Efimov, The hafnian of Toeplitz matrices of a special type, perfect matchings and Bessel polynomials, arXiv:1904.08651 [math.CO], 2019.
H. Eriksson and A. Martin, Enumeration of Carlitz multipermutations, arXiv:1702.04177 [math.CO], 2017.
E. Krasko, I. Labutin, and A. Omelchenko, Enumeration of labelled and unlabelled Hamiltonian Cycles in complete k-partite graphs, arXiv:1709.03218 [math.CO], 2017, Table 1.
E. Krasko and A. Omelchenko, Enumeration of Chord Diagrams without Loops and Parallel Chords, arXiv:1601.05073 [math.CO], 2016.
E. Krasko and A. Omelchenko, Enumeration of Chord Diagrams without Loops and Parallel Chords, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 24(3) (2017), #P3.43.
Gus Wiseman, The a(4) = 36 loopless linear chord diagrams.
Donovan Young, Counting Bubbles in Linear Chord Diagrams, arXiv:2311.01569 [math.CO], 2023.
Donovan Young, Bubbles in Linear Chord Diagrams: Bridges and Crystallized Diagrams, arXiv:2408.17232 [math.CO], 2024.

Column k=0 of A079267.
Column k=2 of A293157.
Row n=2 of A322013.
Cf. A000110, A000699 (topologically connected 2-uniform), A000806, A001147 (2-uniform), A003436 (cyclical version), A005493, A170941, A190823 (distance 3+ version), A322402, A324011, A324172.
Anti-run compositions are A003242.
Separable partitions are A325534.
Cf. A007716, A292884, A333489.
Other sequences involving the multiset {1,1,2,2,...,n,n}: A001147, A007717, A020555, A094574, A316972.

[n le 2 select 2-n else (2*n-3)*Self(n-1) + Self(n-2): n in [1..30]]; // G. C. Greubel, Sep 26 2023

RecurrenceTable[{a[n]== (2n-1)a[n-1] +a[n-2], a[0]==1, a[1]==0}, a, {n,0,20}] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Sep 15 2017 *)
FullSimplify[Table[-I*(BesselI[1/2+n,-1] BesselK[3/2,1] - BesselI[3/2,-1] BesselK[1/2+ n,1]), {n,0,20}]] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Sep 15 2017 *)
Table[(2 n-1)!! Hypergeometric1F1[-n,-2 n,-2], {n,0,20}] (* Eric W. Weisstein, Nov 14 2018 *)
Table[Sqrt[2/Pi]/E ((-1)^n Pi BesselI[1/2+n,1] +BesselK[1/2+n,1]), {n,0,20}] // FunctionExpand // FullSimplify (* Eric W. Weisstein, Nov 14 2018 *)
twouniflin[{}]:={{}};twouniflin[set:{i_,_}]:=Join@@Function[s,Prepend[#,s]&/@twouniflin[Complement[set,s]]]/@Table[{i,j},{j,Select[set,#>i+1&]}];
Table[Length[twouniflin[Range[n]]],{n,0,14,2}] (* Gus Wiseman, Feb 27 2019 *)

seq(N) = {
  my(a = vector(N)); a[1] = 0; a[2] = 1;
  for (n = 3, N, a[n] = (2*n-1)*a[n-1] + a[n-2]);
  concat(1, a);
};
seq(20) \\ Gheorghe Coserea, Dec 09 2016

def A278990_list(prec):
    P. = PowerSeriesRing(QQ, prec)
    return P( exp(-1+sqrt(1-2*x))/sqrt(1-2*x) ).egf_to_ogf().list()
A278990_list(30) # G. C. Greubel, Sep 26 2023

From Gheorghe Coserea, Dec 09 2016: (Start)
D-finite with recurrence a(n) = (2*n-1)*a(n-1) + a(n-2), with a(0) = 1, a(1) = 0.
E.g.f. y satisfies: 0 = (1-2*x)*y'' - 3*y' - y.
a(n) - a(n-1) = A003436(n) for all n >= 2. (End)
From Vaclav Kotesovec, Sep 15 2017: (Start)
a(n) = sqrt(2)*exp(-1)*(BesselK(1/2 + n, 1)/sqrt(Pi) - i*sqrt(Pi)*BesselI(1/2 + n, -1)), where i is the imaginary unit.
a(n) ~ 2^(n+1/2) * n^n  / exp(n+1). (End)
a(n) = A114938(n)/n! - Gus Wiseman, Jul 05 2020 (from Alexander Burstein's formula at A114938).
From G. C. Greubel, Sep 26 2023: (Start)
a(n) = (-1)^n * (i/e)*Sqrt(2/Pi) * BesselK(n + 1/2, -1).
G.f.: sqrt(Pi/(2*x)) * exp(-(1+x)^2/(2*x)) * Erfi((1+x)/sqrt(2*x)).
E.g.f.: exp(-1 + sqrt(1-2*x))/sqrt(1-2*x). (End)

a(0)=1 prepended by Gheorghe Coserea, Dec 09 2016

A002119 Bessel polynomial y_n(-2).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, -1, 7, -71, 1001, -18089, 398959, -10391023, 312129649, -10622799089, 403978495031, -16977719590391, 781379079653017, -39085931702241241, 2111421691000680031, -122501544009741683039, 7597207150294985028449, -501538173463478753560673

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Absolute values give denominators of successive convergents to e using continued fraction 1+2/(1+1/(6+1/(10+1/(14+1/(18+1/(22+1/26...)))))).
Absolute values give number of different arrangements of nonnegative integers on a set of n 6-sided dice such that the dice can add to any integer from 0 to 6^n-1. For example when n=2, there are 7 arrangements that can result in any total from 0 to 35. Cf. A273013. The number of sides on the dice only needs to be the product of two distinct primes, of which 6 is the first example. - Elliott Line, Jun 10 2016
Absolute values give number of Krasner factorizations of (x^(6^n)-1)/(x-1) into n polynomials p_i(x), i=1,2,...,n, satisfying p_i(1)=6. In these expressions 6 can be replaced with any product of two distinct primes (Krasner and Ranulac, 1937). - William P. Orrick, Jan 18 2023
Absolute values give number of pairs (s, b) where s is a covering of the 1 X 2n grid with 1 X 2 dimers and equal numbers of red and blue 1 X 1 monomers and b is a bijection between the red monomers and the blue monomers that does not map adjacent monomers to each other. Ilya Gutkovskiy's formula counts such pairs by an inclusion-exclusion argument. The correspondence with Elliott Line's dice problem is that a dimer corresponds to a die containing an arithmetic progression of length 6 and a pair (r, b(r)), where r is a red monomer and b(r) its image under b, corresponds to a die containing the sum of an arithmetic progression of length 2 and an arithmetic progression of length 3. - William P. Orrick, Jan 19 2023

			Example from _William P. Orrick_, Jan 19 2023: (Start)
For n=2 the Bessel polynomial is y_2(x) = 1 + 3x + 3x^2 which satisfies y_2(-2) = -7.
The |a(2)|=7 dice pairs are
  {{0,1,2,3,4,5}, {0,6,12,18,24,30}},
  {{0,1,2,18,19,20}, {0,3,6,9,12,15}},
  {{0,1,2,9,10,11}, {0,3,6,18,21,24}},
  {{0,1,6,7,12,13}, {0,2,4,18,20,22}},
  {{0,1,12,13,24,25}, {0,2,4,6,8,10}},
  {{0,1,2,6,7,8}, {0,3,12,15,24,27}},
  {{0,1,4,5,8,9}, {0,2,12,14,24,26}}.
The corresponding Krasner factorizations of (x^36-1)/(x-1) are
  {(x^6-1)/(x-1), (x^36-1)/(x^6-1)},
  {((x^36-1)/(x^18-1))*((x^3-1)/(x-1)), (x^18-1)/(x^3-1)},
  {((x^18-1)/(x^9-1))*((x^3-1)/(x-1)), ((x^36-1)/(x^18-1))*((x^9-1)/(x^3-1))},
  {((x^18-1)/(x^6-1))*((x^2-1)/(x-1)), ((x^36-1)/(x^18-1))*((x^6-1)/(x^2-1))},
  {((x^36-1)/(x^12-1))*((x^2-1)/(x-1)), (x^12-1)/(x^2-1)},
  {((x^12-1)/(x^6-1))*((x^3-1)/(x-1)), ((x^36-1)/(x^12-1))*((x^6-1)/(x^3-1))},
  {((x^12-1)/(x^4-1))*((x^2-1)/(x-1)), ((x^36-1)/(x^12-1))*((x^4-1)/(x^2-1))}.
The corresponding monomer-dimer configurations, with dimers, red monomers, and blue monomers represented by the symbols '=', 'R', and 'B', and bijections between red and blue monomers given as sets of ordered pairs, are
  (==, {}),
  (B=R, {(3,1)}),
  (BBRR, {(3,1),(4,2)}),
  (RBBR, {(1,3),(4,2)}),
  (R=B, {(1,3)}),
  (BRRB, {(2,4),(3,1)}),
  (RRBB, {(1,3),(2,4)}).
(End)

L. Euler, 1737.
J. Riordan, Combinatorial Identities, Wiley, 1968, p. 77.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..100
Leo Chao, Paul DesJarlais and John L Leonard, A binomial identity, via derangements, Math. Gaz. 89 (2005), 268-270.
J. W. L. Glaisher, On Lambert's proof of the irrationality of Pi and on the irrationality of certain other quantities, Reports of British Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1871, pp. 16-18.
M. Krasner and B. Ranulac, Sur une propriété des polynomes de la division du cercle, Comptes Rendus Académie des Sciences Paris, 240:397-399, 1937.
D. H. Lehmer, Arithmetical periodicities of Bessel functions, Annals of Mathematics, 33 (1932): 143-150. The sequence but with all signs positive is on page 149.
D. H. Lehmer, Review of various tables by P. Pederson, Math. Comp., 2 (1946), 68-69.
Index entries for sequences related to Bessel functions or polynomials

Cf. A053556, A053557, A001514, A065920, A065921, A065922, A065707, A000806, A006199, A065923.
See also A033815.
Numerators of the convergents of e are A001517, which has a similar interpretation to a(n) in terms of monomer-dimer configurations, but omitting the restriction that adjacent monomers not be mapped to each other by the bijection.
Polynomial coefficients are in A001498.

f:=proc(n) option remember; if n <= 1 then 1 else f(n-2)+(4*n-2)*f(n-1); fi; end;
[seq(f(n), n=0..20)]; # This is for the unsigned version. - N. J. A. Sloane, May 09 2016
seq(simplify((-1)^n*KummerU(-n, -2*n, -1)), n = 0..17); # Peter Luschny, May 10 2022

Table[(-1)^k (2k)! Hypergeometric1F1[-k, -2k, -1]/k!, {k, 0, 10}] (* Vladimir Reshetnikov, Feb 16 2011 *)
nxt[{n_,a_,b_}]:={n+1,b,a-2b(2n+1)}; NestList[nxt,{1,1,-1},20][[All,2]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 18 2017 *)

{a(n)= if(n<0, n=-n-1); sum(k=0, n, (2*n-k)!/ (k!*(n-k)!)* (-1)^(n-k) )} /* Michael Somos, Apr 02 2007 */

{a(n)= local(A); if(n<0, n= -n-1); A= sqrt(1 +4*x +x*O(x^n)); n!*polcoeff( exp((A-1)/2)/A, n)} /* Michael Somos, Apr 02 2007 */

{a(n)= local(A); if(n<0, n= -n-1); n+=2 ; for(k= 1, n, A+= x*O(x^k); A= truncate( (1+x)* exp(A) -1-A) ); A+= x*O(x^n); A-= A^2; -(-1)^n*n!* polcoeff( serreverse(A), n)} /* Michael Somos, Apr 02 2007 */

A002119 = lambda n: hypergeometric([-n, n+1], [], 1)
[simplify(A002119(n)) for n in (0..17)] # Peter Luschny, Oct 17 2014

D-finite with recurrence a(n) = -2(2n-1)*a(n-1) + a(n-2). - T. D. Noe, Oct 26 2006
If y = x + Sum_{k>=2} A005363(k)*x^k/k!, then y = x + Sum_{k>=2} a(k-2)(-y)^k/k!. - Michael Somos, Apr 02 2007
a(-n-1) = a(n). - Michael Somos, Apr 02 2007
a(n) = (1/n!)*Integral_{x>=-1} (-x*(1+x))^n*exp(-(1+x)). - Paul Barry, Apr 19 2010
G.f.: 1/Q(0), where Q(k) = 1 - x + 2*x*(k+1)/Q(k+1); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, May 17 2013
Expansion of exp(x) in powers of y = x*(1 + x): exp(x) = 1 + y - y^2/2! + 7*y^3/3! - 71*y^4/4! + 1001*y^5/5! - .... E.g.f.: (1/sqrt(4*x + 1))*exp(sqrt(4*x + 1)/2 - 1/2) = 1 - x + 7*x^2/2! - 71*x^3/3! + .... - Peter Bala, Dec 15 2013
a(n) = hypergeom([-n, n+1], [], 1). - Peter Luschny, Oct 17 2014
a(n) = sqrt(Pi/exp(1)) * BesselI(1/2+n, 1/2) + (-1)^n * BesselK(1/2+n, 1/2) / sqrt(exp(1)*Pi). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jul 22 2015
a(n) ~ (-1)^n * 2^(2*n+1/2) * n^n / exp(n+1/2). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jul 22 2015
From G. C. Greubel, Aug 16 2017: (Start)
G.f.: (1/(1-t))*hypergeometric2f0(1, 1/2; -; -4*t/(1-t)^2).
E.g.f.: (1+4*t)^(-1/2) * exp((sqrt(1+4*t) - 1)/2). (End)
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^k*binomial(n,k)*binomial(n+k,k)*k!. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Nov 24 2017
a(n) = (-1)^n*KummerU(-n, -2*n, -1). - Peter Luschny, May 10 2022

More terms from Vladeta Jovovic, Apr 03 2000

A114938 Number of permutations of the multiset {1,1,2,2,...,n,n} with no two consecutive terms equal.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 2, 30, 864, 39480, 2631600, 241133760, 29083420800, 4467125013120, 851371260364800, 197158144895712000, 54528028997584665600, 17752366094818747392000, 6720318485119046923315200, 2927066537906697348594432000, 1453437879238150456164433920000

Offset: 0

Hugo Pfoertner, Jan 08 2006

a(n) is also the number of (0,1)-matrices A=(a_ij) of size n X 2n such that each row has exactly two 1's and each column has exactly one 1 and with the restriction that no 1 stands on the line from a_11 to a_22. - Shanzhen Gao, Feb 24 2010
a(n) is the number of permutations of the multiset {1,1,2,2,...,n,n} with no fixed points. - Alexander Burstein, May 16 2020
Also the number of 2-uniform ordered set partitions of {1...2n} containing no two successive vertices in the same block. - Gus Wiseman, Jul 04 2020

			a(2) = 2 because there are two permutations of {1,1,2,2} avoiding equal consecutive terms: 1212 and 2121.

R. P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics Volume I, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Chapter 2, Sieve Methods, Example 2.2.3, page 68.

Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..238 (terms 1..100 from Andrew Woods)
H. Eriksson and A. Martin, Enumeration of Carlitz multipermutations, arXiv:1702.04177 [math.CO], 2017.

Cf. A114939 = preferred seating arrangements of n couples.
Cf. A007060 = arrangements of n couples with no adjacent spouses; A007060(n) = 2^n * A114938(n) (this sequence).
Cf. A104548, A193638.
Cf. A278990 = number of loopless linear chord diagrams with n chords.
Cf. A000806 = Bessel polynomial y_n(-1).
The version for multisets with prescribed multiplicities is A335125.
The version for prime indices is A335452.
Anti-run compositions are counted by A003242.
Anti-run compositions are ranked by A333489.
Inseparable partitions are counted by A325535.
Inseparable partitions are ranked by A335448.
Separable partitions are counted by A325534.
Separable partitions are ranked by A335433.
Cf. A007716, A128695, A292884, A335126, A335434, A335451.
Other sequences involving the multiset {1,1,2,2,...,n,n}: A001147, A007717, A020555, A094574, A316972.
Row n=2 of A322093.

[1] cat [n le 2 select 2*(n-1) else n*(2*n-1)*Self(n-1) + (n-1)*n*Self(n-2): n in [1..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 10 2015

Table[Sum[Binomial[n,i](2n-i)!/2^(n-i) (-1)^i,{i,0,n}],{n,0,20}]  (* Geoffrey Critzer, Jan 02 2013, and adapted to the extension by Stefano Spezia, Nov 15 2018 *)
Table[Length[Select[Permutations[Join[Range[n],Range[n]]],!MatchQ[#,{_,x_,x_,_}]&]],{n,0,5}] (* Gus Wiseman, Jul 04 2020 *)
A114938[n_] := ((2 n)! Hypergeometric1F1[-n, -2 n, -2]) / 2^n;
Array[A114938, 17, 0]  (* Peter Luschny, Sep 04 2025 *)

A114938(n)=sum(k=0, n, binomial(n, k)*(-1)^(n-k)*(n+k)!/2^k);
vector(20, n, A114938(n-1)) \\ Michel Marcus, Aug 10 2015

def A114938(n): return (-1)^n*sum(binomial(n,k)*factorial(n+k)//(-2)^k for k in range(n+1))
[A114938(n) for n in range(31)] # G. C. Greubel, Sep 26 2023

a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} ((binomial(n, k)*(-1)^(n-k)*(n+k)!)/2^k).
a(n) = (-1)^n * n! * A000806(n), n>0. - Vladeta Jovovic, Nov 19 2009
a(n) = n*(2*n-1)*a(n-1) + (n-1)*n*a(n-2). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Aug 07 2013
a(n) ~ 2^(n+1)*n^(2*n)*sqrt(Pi*n)/exp(2*n+1). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Aug 07 2013
a(n) = n! * A278990(n). - Alexander Burstein, May 16 2020
From G. C. Greubel, Sep 26 2023: (Start)
a(n) = (-1)^n * (i/e)*sqrt(2/Pi) * n! * BesselK(n+1/2, -1).
a(n) = [n! * (1/x) * p_{n+1}(x)]|A104548%20for%20p">{x= -1} (See A104548 for p{n}(x)).
E.g.f.: sqrt(Pi/(2*x)) * exp(-(1+x)^2/(2*x)) * erfi((1+x)/sqrt(2*x)).
Sum_{n >= 0} a(n)*x^n/(n!)^2 = exp(sqrt(1-2*x))/sqrt(1-2*x).
Sum_{n >= 0} a(n)*x^n/(n!*(n+1)!) = ( 1 - exp(-1 + sqrt(1-2*x)) )/x. (End)
a(n) = ((2*n)!/2^n) * hypergeom([-n], [-2*n], -2]) = A007060(n) / 2^n. - Peter Luschny, Sep 04 2025

a(0)=1 prepended by Seiichi Manyama, Nov 15 2018

A079267 d(n,s) = number of perfect matchings on {1, 2, ..., n} with s short pairs.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 6, 3, 1, 36, 41, 21, 6, 1, 329, 365, 185, 55, 10, 1, 3655, 3984, 2010, 610, 120, 15, 1, 47844, 51499, 25914, 7980, 1645, 231, 21, 1, 721315, 769159, 386407, 120274, 25585, 3850, 406, 28, 1, 12310199, 13031514, 6539679, 2052309, 446544, 70371, 8106, 666, 36, 1

Offset: 0

Jeremy Martin (martin(AT)math.umn.edu), Feb 05 2003

Read backwards, the n-th row of the triangle gives the Hilbert series of the variety of slopes determined by n points in the plane.
From Paul Barry, Nov 25 2009: (Start)
Reversal of coefficient array for the polynomials P(n,x) = Sum_{k=0..n} (C(n+k,2k)*(2k)!/(2^k*k!))*x^k*(1-x)^(n-k).
Note that P(n,x) = Sum_{k=0..n} A001498(n,k)*x^k*(1-x)^(n-k). (End)
Equivalent to the original definition: Triangle of fixed-point free involutions on [1..2n] (=A001147) by number of cycles with adjacent integers. - Olivier Gérard, Mar 23 2011
Conjecture: Asymptotically, the n-th row has a Poisson distribution with mean 1. - David Callan, Nov 11 2012
This is also the number of configurations of n indistinguishable pairs placed on the vertices of the ladder graph P_1 X P_2n (i.e., a path of length 2n) such that s such pairs are joined by an edge; equivalently the number of "s-domino" configurations in the game of memory played on a 1 X 2n rectangular array, see [Young]. - Donovan Young, Oct 23 2018

			Triangle begins:
   1
   0  1
   1  1  1
   5  6  3 1
  36 41 21 6 1
From _Paul Barry_, Nov 25 2009: (Start)
Production matrix begins
       0,      1,
       1,      1,      1,
       4,      4,      2,     1,
      18,     18,      9,     3,     1,
      96,     96,     48,    16,     4,    1,
     600,    600,    300,   100,    25,    5,   1,
    4320,   4320,   2160,   720,   180,   36,   6,  1,
   35280,  35280,  17640,  5880,  1470,  294,  49,  7, 1,
  322560, 322560, 161280, 53760, 13440, 2688, 448, 64, 8, 1
Complete this by adding top row (1,0,0,0,...) and take inverse: we obtain
   1,
   0,  1,
  -1, -1,  1,
  -2, -2, -2,  1,
  -3, -3, -3, -3,  1,
  -4, -4, -4, -4, -4,  1,
  -5, -5, -5, -5, -5, -5,  1,
  -6, -6, -6, -6, -6, -6, -6,  1,
  -7, -7, -7, -7, -7, -7, -7, -7,  1,
  -8, -8, -8, -8, -8, -8, -8, -8, -8,  1 (End)
The 6 involutions with no fixed point on [1..6] with only one 2-cycle with adjacent integers are ((1, 2), (3, 5), (4, 6)), ((1, 3), (2, 4), (5, 6)), ((1, 3), (2, 6), (4, 5)), ((1, 5), (2, 3), (4, 6)), ((1, 5), (2, 6), (3, 4)), and ((1, 6), (2, 5), (3, 4)).

G. Kreweras and Y. Poupard, Sur les partitions en paires d'un ensemble fini totalement ordonné, Publications de l'Institut de Statistique de l'Université de Paris, 23 (1978), 57-74.

Michael De Vlieger, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..11475 (rows 0 <= n <= 150, flattened).
Marilena Barnabei, Niccolò Castronuovo, and Matteo Silimbani, Hertzsprung patterns on involutions, arXiv:2412.03449 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 10.
Naiomi T. Cameron and Kendra Killpatrick, Statistics on Linear Chord Diagrams, arXiv:1902.09021 [math.CO], 2019.
E. S. Krasko, I.N. Labutin, and A. V. Omelchenko, Enumeration of labeled and unlabeled Hamiltonian cycles in complete k-partite graphs, J. Math. Sci. 255 (2021) 71-87, eq (5).
G. Kreweras and Y. Poupard, Sur les partitions en paires d'un ensemble fini totalement ordonné, Publications de l'Institut de Statistique de l'Université de Paris, 23 (1978), 57-74. (Annotated scanned copy)
Avichai Marmor, Schur-Positivity of Short Chords in Matchings, arXiv:2307.09894 [math.CO], 2023.
Jeremy L. Martin, The slopes determined by n points in the plane, arXiv:math/0302106 [math.AG], 2003-2006.
Jeremy L. Martin, The slopes determined by n points in the plane, Duke Math. J., Volume 131, Number 1 (2006), 119-165.
Donovan Young, The Number of Domino Matchings in the Game of Memory, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 21 (2018), Article 18.8.1.
Donovan Young, Generating Functions for Domino Matchings in the 2 * k Game of Memory, arXiv:1905.13165 [math.CO], 2019. Also in J. Int. Seq., Vol. 22 (2019), Article 19.8.7.
Donovan Young, Bubbles in Linear Chord Diagrams: Bridges and Crystallized Diagrams, arXiv:2408.17232 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 18.

Columns are A278990, A000806, A006198, A006199, A006200.
Row sums are A001147.
d(2n,n) gives A365744.

d := (n,s) -> 1/s! * sum('((-1)^(h-s)*(2*n-h)!/(2^(n-h)*(n-h)!*(h-s)!))','h'=s..n):
# alternative by R. J. Mathar, Aug 19 2022
A079267 := proc(n,k)
    option remember ;
    if n =0 and k =0 then
        1;
    elif k > n or k < 0 then
        0;
    else
        procname(n-1,k-1)+(2*n-2-k)*procname(n-1,k)+(k+1)*procname(n-1,k+1) ;
    end if;
end proc:
seq(seq( A079267(n,k),k=0..n),n=0..13) ;

nmax = 9; d[n_, s_] := (2^(s-n)*(2n-s)!* Hypergeometric1F1[s-n, s-2n, -2])/ (s!*(n-s)!); Flatten[ Table[d[n, s], {n, 0, nmax}, {s, 0, n}]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 19 2011, after Maple *)

{T(n, k) = 2^(k-n)*binomial(n,k)*hyperu(k-n, k-2*n, -2)};
for(n=0,10, for(k=0,n, print1(round(T(n,k)), ", "))) \\ G. C. Greubel, Apr 10 2019

[[2^(k-n)*binomial(n,k)*hypergeometric_U(k-n,k-2*n,-2).simplify_hypergeometric() for k in (0..n)] for n in (0..10)] # G. C. Greubel, Apr 10 2019

d(n, s) = (1/s!) * Sum_{h=s..n} (((-1)^(h-s)*(2*n-h)!/(2^(n-h)*(n-h)!*(h-s)!))).

E.g.f.: exp((x-1)*(1-sqrt(1-2*y)))/sqrt(1-2*y). - Vladeta Jovovic, Dec 15 2008

Extra terms added by Paul Barry, Nov 25 2009

A007060 Number of ways n married couples can sit in a row without any spouses next to each other.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 8, 240, 13824, 1263360, 168422400, 30865121280, 7445355724800, 2287168006717440, 871804170613555200, 403779880746418176000, 223346806774106790297600, 145427383048755178635264000, 110105698060190464791596236800, 95914116314126658718742347776000, 95252504853751428295192341381120000

Offset: 0

David Roberts Keeney (David.Roberts.Keeney(AT)directory.Reed.edu)

Limit_{n->oo} a(n)/(2n)! = 1/e.
Also the number of (directed) Hamiltonian paths of the n-cocktail party graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, Dec 16 2013
Also the number of ways to label the cells of a 2 X n grid such that no vertically adjacent cells have adjacent labels. - Sela Fried, May 29 2023

			For n = 2, the a(2) = 8 solutions for the couples {1,2} and {3,4} are {1324, 1423, 2314, 2413, 3142, 3241, 4132, 4231}.

Andrew Woods, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..100
G. Almkvist, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Apr. 1992.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Cocktail Party Graph.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Hamiltonian Path.

Cf. A000166, A000806, A114938, A177840, A053983, A053984, A193624, A229430, A330266.

seq(add((-1)^i*binomial(n, i)*2^i*(2*n-i)!, i=0..n),n=0..20);

Table[Sum[(-1)^i Binomial[n,i] (2 n - i)! 2^i, {i, 0, n}], {n, 0, 20}]
Table[(2 n)! Hypergeometric1F1[-n, -2 n, -2], {n, 0, 20}]

a(n)=sum(k=0, n, binomial(n, k)*(-1)^(n-k)*(n+k)!*2^(n-k)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, May 11 2016

from sympy import binomial, subfactorial
def a(n): return sum([(-1)**(n - k)*binomial(n, k)*subfactorial(2*k) for k in range(n + 1)]) # Indranil Ghosh, Apr 28 2017

a(n) = (Pi*BesselI(n+1/2,1)*(-1)^n+BesselK(n+1/2,1))*exp(-1)*(2/Pi)^(1/2)*2^n*n!. - Mark van Hoeij, Nov 12 2009
a(n) = (-1)^n*2^n*n!*A000806(n), n>0. - Vladeta Jovovic, Nov 19 2009
a(n) = n!*hypergeom([-n, n+1],[],1/2)*(-2)^n. - Mark van Hoeij, Nov 13 2009
a(n) = 2^n * A114938(n). - Toby Gottfried, Nov 22 2010
a(n) = 2*n((2*n-1)*a(n-1) + (2*n-2)*a(n-2)), n > 1. - Aaron Meyerowitz, May 14 2014
From Peter Bala, Mar 06 2015: (Start)
a(n) = Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^(n-k)*binomial(n,k)*A000166(2*k).
For n >= 1, Integral_{x = 0..1} (x^2 - 1)^n*exp(x) dx = a(n)*e - A177840(n). Hence lim_{n->oo} A177840(n)/a(n) = e. (End)
a(n) ~ sqrt(Pi) * 2^(2*n+1) * n^(2*n + 1/2) / exp(2*n+1). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 09 2016

More terms from Michel ten Voorde, Apr 11 2001

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A001515 Bessel polynomial y_n(x) evaluated at x=1.

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A003436 Number of inequivalent labeled Hamiltonian circuits on n-octahedron. Interlacing chords joining 2n points on circle.

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A058798 a(n) = n*a(n-1) - a(n-2) with a(0) = 0, a(1) = 1.

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