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For n >= 1, a(n) is the maximal number of pieces that can be obtained by cutting an annulus with n cuts. See illustration. - Robert G. Wilson v

n(n-3)/2 (n >= 3) is the number of diagonals of an n-gon. - Antreas P. Hatzipolakis (xpolakis(AT)otenet.gr)

n(n-3)/2 (n >= 4) is the degree of the third-smallest irreducible presentation of the symmetric group S_n (cf. James and Kerber, Appendix 1).

a(n) is also the multiplicity of the eigenvalue (-2) of the triangle graph Delta(n+1). (See p. 19 in Biggs.) - Felix Goldberg (felixg(AT)tx.technion.ac.il), Nov 25 2001

For n > 3, a(n-3) = dimension of the traveling salesman polytope T(n). - Benoit Cloitre, Aug 18 2002

Also counts quasi-dominoes (quasi-2-ominoes) on an n X n board. Cf. A094170-A094172. - Jon Wild, May 07 2004

Coefficient of x^2 in (1 + x + 2*x^2)^n. - Michael Somos, May 26 2004

a(n) is the number of "prime" n-dimensional polyominoes. A "prime" n-polyomino cannot be formed by connecting any other n-polyominoes except for the n-monomino and the n-monomino is not prime. E.g., for n=1, the 1-monomino is the line of length 1 and the only "prime" 1-polyominoes are the lines of length 2 and 3. This refers to "free" n-dimensional polyominoes, i.e., that can be rotated along any axis. - Bryan Jacobs (bryanjj(AT)gmail.com), Apr 01 2005

Solutions to the quadratic equation q(m, r) = (-3 +- sqrt(9 + 8(m - r))) / 2, where m - r is included in a(n). Let t(m) = the triangular number (A000217) less than some number k and r = k - t(m). If k is neither prime nor a power of two and m - r is included in A000096, then m - q(m, r) will produce a value that shares a divisor with k. - Andrew S. Plewe, Jun 18 2005

Sum_{k=2..n+1} 4/(k*(k+1)*(k-1)) = ((n+3)*n)/((n+2)*(n+1)). Numerator(Sum_{k=2..n+1} 4/(k*(k+1)*(k-1))) = (n+3)*n/2. - Alexander Adamchuk, Apr 11 2006

Number of rooted trees with n+3 nodes of valence 1, no nodes of valence 2 and exactly two other nodes. I.e., number of planted trees with n+2 leaves and exactly two branch points. - Theo Johnson-Freyd (theojf(AT)berkeley.edu), Jun 10 2007

If X is an n-set and Y a fixed 2-subset of X then a(n-2) is equal to the number of (n-2)-subsets of X intersecting Y. - Milan Janjic, Jul 30 2007

For n >= 1, a(n) is the number of distinct shuffles of the identity permutation on n+1 letters with the identity permutation on 2 letters (12). - Camillia Smith Barnes, Oct 04 2008

If s(n) is a sequence defined as s(1) = x, s(n) = kn + s(n-1) + p for n > 1, then s(n) = a(n-1)*k + (n-1)*p + x. - Gary Detlefs, Mar 04 2010

The only primes are a(1) = 2 and a(2) = 5. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 18 2011

a(n) = m such that the (m+1)-th triangular number minus the m-th triangular number is the (n+1)-th triangular number: (m+1)(m+2)/2 - m(m+1)/2 = (n+1)(n+2)/2. - Zak Seidov, Jan 22 2012

For n >= 1, number of different values that Sum_{k=1..n} c(k)*k can take where the c(k) are 0 or 1. - Joerg Arndt, Jun 24 2012

On an n X n chessboard (n >= 2), the number of possible checkmate positions in the case of king and rook versus a lone king is 0, 16, 40, 72, 112, 160, 216, 280, 352, ..., which is 8*a(n-2). For a 4 X 4 board the number is 40. The number of positions possible was counted including all mirror images and rotations for all four sides of the board. - Jose Abutal, Nov 19 2013

If k = a(i-1) or k = a(i+1) and n = k + a(i), then C(n, k-1), C(n, k), C(n, k+1) are three consecutive binomial coefficients in arithmetic progression and these are all the solutions. There are no four consecutive binomial coefficients in arithmetic progression. - Michael Somos, Nov 11 2015

a(n-1) is also the number of independent components of a symmetric traceless tensor of rank 2 and dimension n >= 1. - Wolfdieter Lang, Dec 10 2015

Numbers k such that 8k + 9 is a square. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Apr 05 2016

Let phi_(D,rho) be the average value of a generic degree D monic polynomial f when evaluated at the roots of the rho-th derivative of f, expressed as a polynomial in the averaged symmetric polynomials in the roots of f. [See the Wojnar et al. link] The "last" term of phi_(D,rho) is a multiple of the product of all roots of f; the coefficient is expressible as a polynomial h_D(N) in N:=D-rho. These polynomials are of the form h_D(N)= ((-1)^D/(D-1)!)*(D-N)*N^chi*g_D(N) where chi = (1 if D is odd, 0 if D is even) and g_D(N) is a monic polynomial of degree (D-2-chi). Then a(n) are the negated coefficients of the next to the highest order term in the polynomials N^chi*g_D(N), starting at D=3. - Gregory Gerard Wojnar, Jul 19 2017

For n >= 2, a(n) is the number of summations required to solve the linear regression of n variables (n-1 independent variables and 1 dependent variable). - Felipe Pedraza-Oropeza, Dec 07 2017

For n >= 2, a(n) is the number of sums required to solve the linear regression of n variables: 5 for two variables (sums of X, Y, X^2, Y^2, X*Y), 9 for 3 variables (sums of X1, X2, Y1, X1^2, X1*X2, X1*Y, X2^2, X2*Y, Y^2), and so on. - Felipe Pedraza-Oropeza, Jan 11 2018

a(n) is the area of a triangle with vertices at (n, n+1), ((n+1)*(n+2)/2, (n+2)*(n+3)/2), ((n+2)^2, (n+3)^2). - J. M. Bergot, Jan 25 2018

Number of terms less than 10^k: 1, 4, 13, 44, 140, 446, 1413, 4471, 14141, 44720, 141420, 447213, ... - Muniru A Asiru, Jan 25 2018

a(n) is also the number of irredundant sets in the (n+1)-path complement graph for n > 2. - Eric W. Weisstein, Apr 11 2018

a(n) is also the largest number k such that the largest Dyck path of the symmetric representation of sigma(k) has exactly n peaks, n >= 1. (Cf. A237593.) - Omar E. Pol, Sep 04 2018

For n > 0, a(n) is the number of facets of associahedra. Cf. A033282 and A126216 and their refinements A111785 and A133437 for related combinatorial and analytic constructs. See p. 40 of Hanson and Sha for a relation to projective spaces and string theory. - Tom Copeland, Jan 03 2021

For n > 0, a(n) is the number of bipartite graphs with 2n or 2n+1 edges, no isolated vertices, and a stable set of cardinality 2. - Christian Barrientos, Jun 13 2022

For n >= 2, a(n-2) is the number of permutations in S_n which are the product of two different transpositions of adjacent points. - Zbigniew Wojciechowski, Mar 31 2023

a(n) represents the optimal stop-number to achieve the highest running score for the Greedy Pig game with an (n-1)-sided die with a loss on a 1. The total at which one should stop is a(s-1), e.g. for a 6-sided die, one should pass the die at 20. See Sparks and Haran. - Nicholas Stefan Georgescu, Jun 09 2024

Catalan convolution triangle; g.f. for column k: (x*c(x))^k with c(x) g.f. for A000108 (Catalan numbers).

Riordan array (1, xc(x)), where c(x) the g.f. of A000108; inverse of Riordan array (1, x*(1-x)) (see A109466).

Diagonal sums give A132364. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 11 2007

A class of Boolean functions of n variables and rank 2.

Also, number of inscribable triangles within a (n+4)-gon sharing with them its vertices but not its sides. - Lekraj Beedassy, Nov 14 2003

a(n) = A111808(n,3) for n > 2. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 17 2005

If X is an n-set and Y a fixed 2-subset of X then a(n-2) is equal to the number of (n-3)-subsets of X intersecting Y. - Milan Janjic, Jul 30 2007

The sequence starting with offset 2 = binomial transform of [2, 5, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Mar 20 2009

Let I=I_n be the n X n identity matrix and P=P_n be the incidence matrix of the cycle (1,2,3,...,n). Then, for n >= 4, a(n-4) is the number of (0,1) n X n matrices A <= P^(-1) + I + P having exactly two 1's in every row and column with perA=8. - Vladimir Shevelev, Apr 12 2010

Also arises as the number of triples of edges which can be chosen as the cut-points in the "three-opt" heuristic for a traveling salesman problem on (n+4) nodes. - James McDermott, Jul 10 2015

a(n) = risefac(n, 3)/3! - n is for n >= 1 also the number of independent components of a symmetric traceless tensor of rank 3 and dimension n. Here risefac is the rising factorial. - Wolfdieter Lang, Dec 10 2015

For n >= 2, a(n) is the number of characters in a word Q formed by concatenating all 'directed' ( left to right or vice versa), unrearranged subwords, from length 1 to (n-1), of a length (n-1) word q- allowing for the appearance of repeated subwords- and simply inserting an extra character for all subwords thus concatenated. - Christopher Hohl, May 30 2019

Triangle T(n,k), 0 <= k <= n, read by rows, given by [0, 1, -1, 0, 0, 1, -1, 0, 0, 1, -1, 0, 0, ...] DELTA [1, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1, 1, ...] where DELTA is the operator defined in A084938.

Aerated version gives A165408. - Philippe Deléham, Sep 22 2009

T(n,k) is the number of length n left factors of Dyck paths having k up steps. Example: T(5,4)=4 because we have UDUUU, UUDUU, UUUDU, and UUUUD, where U=(1,1) and D=(1,-1). - Emeric Deutsch, Jun 19 2011

With zeros omitted: 1,1,1,1,2,1,2,3,1,5,4,1,... = A008313. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 02 2011

From Kyle Petersen, Jun 02 2024: (Start)

Coefficients of the "P-Eulerian" polynomial of a naturally labeled zig-zag poset, which counts linear extensions according to number of descents. T(n, k) is the number of linear extensions of the n-element zig-zag poset with k descents.

Also T(n, k) is the number of up-down permutations of length n with k "big returns". A big return is a pair (i, i+1) for which i appears more than one place to the right of i+1 in the permutation. This interpretation implies row sums are given by A000111. (End)

From L. Edson Jeffery, Jan 27 2012: (Start)

(Previous name:) Omitting the first two ones, a rectangular array M read by antidiagonals in which entry M_{n-k, k} in row n-k and column k, 0 <= k <= n, gives the coefficient of x^k in the numerator of the conjectured generating function for row n + 3 of the tabular form of A050446.

In the following, let M_{n, k} denote the entry in row n and column k of M, n, k in {0, 1, ...}.

Conjecture: 1. M_{n, k} = M_{k, n}, for all n and k; that is, M is symmetric about the central terms {1, 3, 31, 623,...}. (This has been verified for the first 100 antidiagonals of M.)

Conjecture: 2. For m in {3, 4,...}, row m of array A050446 has generating function of the form H_m(x)/(1 - x)^m, in which the numerator H_m(x) is a polynomial of degree m - 3 in x with coefficients given by the entries of the (m - 3)-th antidiagonal of M containing the sequence of entries {M_{m-3-j,j}}, j=0..m-3 (see the example below). It is known that H_1(x) = H_2(x) = 1.

Conjecture: 3. Define the Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind by U_0(t) = 1, U_1(t) = 2*t and U_r(t) = 2*t*U_(r-1)(t) - U_(r-2)(t) (r > 1). Assuming Conjecture 1, lim_{n -> infinity} M_{n+1, k}/M_{n, k} = U_k(cos(Pi/(2*k+3))) = spectral radius of the (k+1) X (k+1) unit-primitive matrix (see [Jeffery]) A_{2*k+3, k} = [0,...,0,1; 0,...,0,1,1; ...; 0,1,...,1; 1,...,1], with identical limits for the columns of the transpose M^T of M.

Conjecture: 4. Let S(u, v) denote the entry in row u and column v of triangle S = A187660, 0 <= v <= u. Define the polynomials P_u(x) = Sum[S(u, v)*x^v]. Assuming Conjecture 1, then (i) the generating function for row (or column) n of M is of the form

G_n(x)/((P_1(x))^(n+1) * (P_2(x))^n * ... * (P_n(x))^2 * P_(n+1)(x)),

in which (ii) the numerator G_n(x) is a polynomial of degree A005586(n), and (iii) the denominator is a polynomial of degree A000292(n+1).

Remarks: The coefficients in the numerators G_n(x) appear to have no pattern. The polynomial P_j(x), j in {1,...,n+1}, of Conjecture 4 is also obtained from the characteristic polynomial of the unit-primitive matrix A_{2*j+3,j} of Conjecture 3 by taking the exponents of the latter in reverse order; and P_j(x) is otherwise identical to the characteristic polynomial of the unit-primitive matrix A_{2*j+3,1}.

(End)

Conjecture: The Eulerian zig-zag polynomials have only negative and simple real roots and form a Sturm sequence, that is, p(n+1, x) has n real roots separated by the roots of p(n, x). This property was proved by Frobenius for the classical Eulerian polynomials. - Peter Luschny, Jun 04 2024

A(n,k) is the n-th term of the k-fold convolution of Bell numbers with themselves. - Alois P. Heinz, Feb 12 2019