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A005418 Number of (n-1)-bead black-white reversible strings; also binary grids; also row sums of Losanitsch's triangle A034851; also number of caterpillar graphs on n+2 vertices.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 20, 36, 72, 136, 272, 528, 1056, 2080, 4160, 8256, 16512, 32896, 65792, 131328, 262656, 524800, 1049600, 2098176, 4196352, 8390656, 16781312, 33558528, 67117056, 134225920, 268451840, 536887296, 1073774592, 2147516416, 4295032832
Offset: 1

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N. J. A. Sloane, R. K. Guy

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Comments

Equivalently, walks on triangle, visiting n+2 vertices, so length n+1, n "corners"; the symmetry group is S3, reversing a walk does not count as different. Walks are not self-avoiding. - Colin Mallows
Slavik V. Jablan observes that this is also the number of rational knots and links with n+2 crossings (cf. A018240). See reference. [Corrected by Andrey Zabolotskiy, Jun 18 2020]
Number of bit strings of length (n-1), not counting strings which are the end-for-end reversal or the 0-for-1 reversal of each other as different. - Carl Witty (cwitty(AT)newtonlabs.com), Oct 27 2001
The formula given in page 1095 of the Balasubramanian reference can be used to derive this sequence. - Parthasarathy Nambi, May 14 2007
Also number of compositions of n up to direction, where a composition is considered equivalent to its reversal, see example. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Oct 24 2009
Number of normally non-isomorphic realizations of the associahedron of type I starting with dimension 2 in Ceballos et al. - Tom Copeland, Oct 19 2011
Number of fibonacenes with n+2 hexagons. See the Balaban and the Dobrynin references. - Emeric Deutsch, Apr 21 2013
From the point of view of binary grids, it is a (1,n)-rectangular grid. A225826 to A225834 are the numbers of binary pattern classes in the (m,n)-rectangular grid, 1 < m < 11. - Yosu Yurramendi, May 19 2013
Number of n-vertex difference graphs (bipartite 2K_2-free graphs) [Peled & Sun, Thm. 9]. - Falk Hüffner, Jan 10 2016
The offset should be 0, since the first row of A034851 is row 0. The name would then be: "Number of n bead...". - Daniel Forgues, Jul 26 2018
a(n) is the number of non-isomorphic generalized rigid ladders with n cells. A generalized rigid ladder with n cells is a graph with vertex set is the union of {u_0, u_1, ..., u_n} and {v_0, v_1, ..., v_n}, and for every 0 <= i <= n-1, the edges are of the form {u_i,u_i+1}, {v_i, v_i+1}, {u_i,v_i} and either {u_i,v_i+1} or {u_i+1,v_i}. - Christian Barrientos, Jul 29 2018
Also number of non-isomorphic stairs with n+1 cells. A stair is a snake polyomino allowing only two directions for adjacent cells: east and north. - Christian Barrientos and Sarah Minion, Jul 29 2018
From Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018: (Start)
There are two different unoriented row colorings using two colors that give us very similar results here, a difference of one in the offset. In an unoriented row, chiral pairs are counted as one.
a(n) is the number of color patterns (set partitions) of an unoriented row of length n using two or fewer colors (subsets). Two color patterns are equivalent if the colors are permutable.
a(n+1) is the number of ways to color an unoriented row of length n using two noninterchangeable colors (one need not use both colors).
See the examples below of these two different colorings. (End)
Also arises from the enumeration of types of based polyhedra with exactly two triangular faces [Rademacher]. - N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 24 2020
a(n) is the number of (unlabeled) 2-paths with n+4 vertices. (A 2-path with order n at least 4 can be constructed from a 3-clique by iteratively adding a new 2-leaf (vertex of degree 2) adjacent to an existing 2-clique containing an existing 2-leaf.) - Allan Bickle, Apr 05 2022
a(n) is the number of caterpillars with a perfect matching and order 2n+2. - Christian Barrientos, Sep 12 2023
a(n) is also the number of distinct planar embeddings of the (n+2)-centipede graph (up to at least n=8 and likely for all larger n). - Eric W. Weisstein, May 21 2024
a(n) is also the number of distinct planar embeddings of the 2 X (n+2) grid graph i.e., the (n+2)-ladder graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, May 21 2024
Dimension of the homogeneous component of degree n of the free Jordan algebra on two generators (or, in this case, the free special Jordan algebra on two generators). It follows from (Shirshov 1956, Cohn 1959). - Vladimir Dotsenko, Mar 29 2025

Examples

			a(5) = 10 because there are 16 compositions of 5 (shown as <vectors>) but only 10 equivalence classes (shown as {sets}): {<5>}, {<4,1>,<1,4>}, {<3,2>,<2,3>}, {<3,1,1>,<1,1,3>}, {<1,3,1>},{<2,2,1>,<1,2,2>}, {<2,1,2>}, {<2,1,1,1>,<1,1,1,2>}, {<1,2,1,1>,<1,1,2,1>}, {<1,1,1,1,1>}. - _Geoffrey Critzer_, Nov 02 2012
G.f. = x + 2*x^2 + 3*x^3 + 6*x^4 + 10*x^5 + 20*x^6 + 36*x^7 + 72*x^8 + ... - _Michael Somos_, Jun 24 2018
From _Robert A. Russell_, Oct 28 2018: (Start)
For a(5)=10, the 4 achiral patterns (set partitions) are AAAAA, AABAA, ABABA, and ABBBA. The 6 chiral pairs are AAAAB-ABBBB, AAABA-ABAAA, AAABB-AABBB, AABAB-ABABB, AABBA-ABBAA, and ABAAB-ABBAB. The colors are permutable.
For n=4 and a(n+1)=10, the 4 achiral colorings are AAAA, ABBA, BAAB, and BBBB. The 6 achiral pairs are AAAB-BAAA, AABA-ABAA, AABB-BBAA, ABAB-BABA, ABBB-BBBA, and BABB-BBAB. The colors are not permutable. (End)

References

  • K. Balasubramanian, "Combinatorial Enumeration of Chemical Isomers", Indian J. Chem., (1978) vol. 16B, pp. 1094-1096. See page 1095.
  • Wayne M. Dymacek, Steinhaus graphs. Proceedings of the Tenth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, Fla., 1979), pp. 399--412, Congress. Numer., XXIII-XXIV, Utilitas Math., Winnipeg, Man., 1979. MR0561065 (81f:05120)
  • Jablan S. and Sazdanovic R., LinKnot: Knot Theory by Computer, World Scientific Press, 2007.
  • Joseph S. Madachy: Madachy's Mathematical Recreations. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1979, p. 46 (first publ. by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1966, under the title: Mathematics on Vacation)
  • M. R. Nester (1999). Mathematical investigations of some plant interaction designs. PhD Thesis. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. [See A056391 for pdf file of Chap. 2.]
  • C. A. Pickover, Keys to Infinity, Wiley 1995, p. 75.
  • N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

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Crossrefs

Column 2 of A320750 (set partitions).
Cf. A131577 (oriented), A122746(n-3) (chiral), A016116 (achiral), for set partitions with up to two subsets.
Column 2 of A277504, offset by one (colors not permutable).
Cf. A000079 (oriented), A122746(n-2) (chiral), and A060546 (achiral), for a(n+1).
Cf. A001998, A001444, A051436, A051437, A007582, A001445, A032085.

Programs

  • Haskell
    a005418 n = sum $ a034851_row (n - 1) -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 14 2012
  • Maple
    A005418 := n->2^(n-2)+2^(floor(n/2)-1): seq(A005418(n), n=1..34);
  • Mathematica
    LinearRecurrence[{2,2,-4}, {1,2,3}, 40] (* or *) Table[2^(n-2)+2^(Floor[n/2]-1), {n,40}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jan 18 2012 *)
  • PARI
    A005418(n)= 2^(n-2) + 2^(n\2-1); \\ Joerg Arndt, Sep 16 2013
  • Python
    def A005418(n): return 1 if n == 1 else 2**((m:= n//2)-1)*(2**(n-m-1)+1) # Chai Wah Wu, Feb 03 2022

Formula

a(n) = 2^(n-2) + 2^(floor(n/2) - 1).
G.f.: -x*(-1 + 3*x^2) / ( (2*x - 1)*(2*x^2 - 1) ). - Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
G.f.: x*(1+2*x)*(1-3*x^2)/((1-4*x^2)*(1-2*x^2)), not reduced. - Wolfdieter Lang, May 08 2001
a(n) = 6*a(n - 2) - 8*a(n - 4). a(2*n) = A063376(n - 1) = 2*a(2*n - 1); a(2*n + 1) = A007582(n). - Henry Bottomley, Jul 14 2001
a(n+2) = 2*a(n+1) - A077957(n) with a(1) = 1, a(2) = 2. - Yosu Yurramendi, Oct 24 2008
a(n) = 2*a(n-1) + 2*a(n-2) - 4*a(n-3). - Jaume Oliver Lafont, Dec 05 2008
Union of A007582 and A161168. Union of A007582 and A063376. - Jaroslav Krizek, Aug 14 2009
G.f.: G(0); G(k) = 1 + 2*x/(1 - x*(1+2^(k+1))/(x*(1+2^(k+1)) + (1+2^k)/G(k+1))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Dec 12 2011
a(2*n) = 2*a(2*n-1) and a(2*n+1) = a(2*n) + 4^(n-1) with a(1) = 1. - Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 26 2013
From Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018: (Start)
a(n) = (A131577(n) + A016116(n)) / 2 = A131577(n) - A122746(n-3) = A122746(n-3) + A016116(n), for set partitions with up to two subsets.
a(n+1) = (A000079(n) + A060546(n)) / 2 = A000079(n) - A122746(n-2) = A122746(n-2) + A060546(n), for two colors that do not permute.
a(n) = Sum_{j=0..k} (S2(n,j) + Ach(n,j)) / 2, where k=2 is the maximum number of colors, S2(n,k) is the Stirling subset number A008277, and Ach(n,k) = [n>=0 & n<2 & n==k] + [n>1]*(k*Ach(n-2,k) + Ach(n-2,k-1) + Ach(n-2,k-2)).
a(n+1) = (k^n + k^ceiling(n/2)) / 2, where k=2 is number of colors we can use. (End)
E.g.f.: (cosh(2*x) + 2*cosh(sqrt(2)*x) + sinh(2*x) + sqrt(2)*sinh(sqrt(2)*x) - 3)/4. - Stefano Spezia, Jun 01 2022

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