A005036 Number of nonequivalent dissections of a polygon into n quadrilaterals by nonintersecting diagonals up to rotation and reflection.

1, 1, 2, 5, 16, 60, 261, 1243, 6257, 32721, 175760, 963900, 5374400, 30385256, 173837631, 1004867079, 5861610475, 34469014515, 204161960310, 1217145238485, 7299007647552, 44005602441840

Offset: 1

Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

• core
• nonn
• nice

Comments

Closed formula is given in my paper linked below. - Nikos Apostolakis, Aug 01 2018

Number of unoriented polyominoes composed of n square cells of the hyperbolic regular tiling with Schläfli symbol {4,oo}. A stereographic projection of this tiling on the Poincaré disk can be obtained via the Christensson link. For unoriented polyominoes, chiral pairs are counted as one. - Robert A. Russell, Jan 20 2024

References

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

Links

• T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..100
• Nikos Apostolakis, Non-crossing trees, quadrangular dissections, ternary trees, and duality preserving bijections, arXiv:1807.11602 [math.CO], July 2018.
• Malin Christensson, Make hyperbolic tilings of images, web page, 2019.
• F. Harary, E. M. Palmer, and R. C. Read, On the cell-growth problem for arbitrary polygons, computer printout, circa 1974
• F. Harary, E. M. Palmer and R. C. Read, On the cell-growth problem for arbitrary polygons, Discr. Math. 11 (1975), 371-389.
• E. V. Konstantinova, A survey of the cell-growth problem and some its variations, Com 2 MaC-KOSEF, 2001. (Archived link.)
• Index entries for "core" sequences

Crossrefs

Column k=4 of A295260.

Cf. A005419, A004127.

Polyominoes: A005034 (oriented), A369315 (chiral), A047749 (achiral), A385149 (asymmetric), A001764 (rooted), A000207 {3,oo}, A005040 {5,oo}, A005038 {5,oo} (oriented).

Programs

Mathematica

p=4; Table[(Binomial[(p-1)n, n]/(((p-2)n+1)((p-2)n+2)) + If[OddQ[n], If[OddQ[p], Binomial[(p-1)n/2, (n-1)/2]/n, (p+1)Binomial[((p-1)n-1)/2, (n-1)/2]/((p-2)n+2)], 3Binomial[(p-1)n/2, n/2]/((p-2)n+2)]+Plus @@ Map[EulerPhi[ # ]Binomial[((p-1)n+1)/#, (n-1)/# ]/((p-1)n+1)&, Complement[Divisors[GCD[p, n-1]], {1, 2}]])/2, {n, 1, 20}] (* Robert A. Russell, Dec 11 2004 *)
Table[(3Binomial[3n,n]/(2n+1)-Binomial[3n+1,n]/(n+1)-If[OddQ[n],-10Binomial[(3n-1)/2,(n-1)/2]-If[1==Mod[n,4],4Binomial[(3n-3)/4,(n-1)/4],0],-6Binomial[3n/2,n/2]]/(n+1))/8,{n,0,30}] (* Robert A. Russell, Jun 19 2025 *)

Formula

a(n) ~ 3^(3*n + 1/2) / (sqrt(Pi) * n^(5/2) * 2^(2*n + 4)). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 13 2016

a(n) = A005034(n) - A369315(n) = (A005034(n) + A047749(n)) / 2 = A369315(n) + A047749(n). - Robert A. Russell, Jan 19 2024

G.f.: (3*G(z) - G(z)^2 + 6*G(z^2) + 5z*G(z^2)^2 + 2z*G(z^4)) / 8, where G(z)=1+z*G(z)^3 is the g.f. for A001764. - Robert A. Russell, Jun 19 2025

Extensions

More terms from Sascha Kurz, Oct 13 2001

Name edited by Andrew Howroyd, Nov 20 2017