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Previous definition was: Consider a figure like this <> (a squashed square, symmetric about both axes); each side is given 1 of n colors; a(n) = number of possibilities, allowing turning over.

Also number of 2 X 2 matrices with entries mod n, up to row and column permutation. Number of k X l matrices with entries mod n, up to row and column permutation is Z(S_k X S_l; n,n,...) where Z(S_k X S_l; x_1,x_2,...) is cycle index of Cartesian product of symmetric groups S_k and S_l of degree k and l, respectively. - Vladeta Jovovic, Nov 04 2000

Also, if a 2-set Y and a 3-set Z are disjoint subsets of an n-set X then a(n-5) is the number of 6-subsets of X intersecting both Y and Z. - Milan Janjic, Sep 08 2007

The n-th row is {T(n,0),T(n,1),...,T(n,n-1)}.

Let m denote the prime power p^e.

T(m,0) = A020478(m) = (p^(e+1) + p^e-1)*p^(2*e-1).

T(m,1) = A000056(m) = (p^2-1)*p^(3*e-2).

T(prime(n),1) = A127917(n).

Sum_{k=1..n-1} T(n,k) = A005353(n).

T(n,1) = n*A007434(n) for n>=1 because A000056(n) = n*Jordan_Function_J_2(n).

T(2^n,1) = A083233(n) = A164640(2n) for n>=1. Proof: a(n):=T(2^n,1); a(1)=6, a(n)=8*a(n-1); A083233(1)=6 and A083233(n) is a geometric series with ratio 8 (because of its g.f.), too; A164640 = {b(1)=1, b(2)=6, b(n)=8*b(n-2)}.

T(2^n,0) = A165148(n) for n>=0, because 2*T(2^n,0) = (3*2^n-1)*4^n.

T(2^e,2) = A003951(e) for 2 <= e. Proof: T(2^e,2) = 9*8^(e-1) is a series with ratio 8 and initial term 72, as A003951(2...inf) is.

Working with consecutive powers of a prime p, we need a definition (0 <= i < e):

N(p^e,i):=#{k: 0 < k < p^e, gcd(k,p^e) = p^i} = (p-1)*p^(e-1-i). We say that these k's belong to i (respect to p^e). Note that N(p^e,0) = EulerPhi(p^e), and if 0 < k < p^e then gcd(k,p^e) = gcd(k,p^(e+1)). Let T(p^e,[i]) denote the common value of T(p^e,k)'s, where k's belong to i (q.v.PROGRAM); for example, T(p^e,[0]) = T(p^e,1). The number of the 2 X 2 matrices over Z(p^e), T(p^e,0) + Sum_{i=0..e-1} T(p^e,[i])*N(p^e,i) = p^(4e) will be useful.

On the hexagon property: Let prime p be given and let T(p^e,[0]), T(p^e,[1]), T(p^e,[2]), ..., T(p^e,[e-2]), T(p^e,[e-1]) form the e-th row of a Pascal-like triangle, e>=1. Let denote X(r,s) an element of the triangle and its value T(p^r,[s]). Let positive integers a and b given, so that the entries A(m-a,n-b), B(m-a,n), C(m,n+a), D(m+b,n+a), E(m+b,n), F(m,n-b) of the triangle form a hexagon spaced around T(p^m,[n]); if a=b=1 then they surround it. If A*C*E = B*D*F, then we say that the triangle T(.,.) has the "hexagon property". (In the case of binomial coefficients X(r,s) = COMB(r,s), the "hexagon property" holds (see [Gupta]) and moreover gcd(A,C,E) = gcd(B,D,F) (see [Hitotumatu & Sato]).)

Corollary 2.2 in [Brent & McKay] says that, for the d X d matrices over Z(p^e), (mutatis mutandis) T_d(p^e,0) = K*(1-P(d+e-1)/P(e-1)) and T_d(p^e,[i]) = K*(q^e)*((1-q^d)/(1-q))*P(d+i-1)/P(i), where q=1/p, K=(p^e)^(d^2), P(t) = Product_{j=1..t} (1-q^j), P(0):=1. (For the case d=2, we have T(p^e,[i]) = (p+1)*(p^(i+1)-1)*p^(3*e-i-2).) Due to [Brent & McKay], it can be simply proved that for d X d matrices the "hexagon property" is true. The formulation implies an obvious generalization: For the entries A(r,u), B(r,v), C(s,w), D(t,w), E(t,v), F(s,u) of the T_d(.,.)-triangle, a hexagon-like property A*C*E = B*D*F holds. This is false in general for the COMB(.,.)-triangle.

Another (rotated-hexagon-like) property: for the entries A(m-b1,n), B(m-a1,n+c2), C(m+a2,n+c2), D(m+b2,n), E(m+a2,n-c1), F(m-a1,n-c1) of the T_d(.,.)-triangle, the property A*C*E = B*D*F holds, if and only if 2*(a1 + a2) = b1 + b2. This is also in general false for COMB(.,.)-triangle.