A006505 Number of partitions of an n-set into boxes of size >2.
1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 11, 36, 92, 491, 2557, 11353, 60105, 362506, 2169246, 13580815, 91927435, 650078097, 4762023647, 36508923530, 292117087090, 2424048335917, 20847410586719, 185754044235873, 1711253808769653, 16272637428430152
Offset: 0
References
- J. Riordan, A budget of rhyme scheme counts, pp. 455 - 465 of Second International Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics, New York, April 4-7, 1978. Edited by Allan Gewirtz and Louis V. Quintas. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 319, 1979.
- N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
Links
- Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..579 (terms 0..250 from Alois P. Heinz)
- E. A. Enneking and J. C. Ahuja, Generalized Bell numbers, Fib. Quart., 14 (1976), 67-73.
- INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 102
- Vladimir Victorovich Kruchinin, Composition of ordinary generating functions, arXiv:1009.2565 [math.CO], 2010.
- I. Mezo, Periodicity of the last digits of some combinatorial sequences, arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1637 [math.CO], 2013.
- J. Riordan, Cached copy of paper [With permission]
Programs
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Maple
Copy ZL := [ B,{B=Set(Set(Z, card>=3))}, labeled ]: [seq(combstruct[count](ZL, size=n), n=0..25)]; # Zerinvary Lajos, Mar 13 2007 G:={P=Set(Set(Atom,card>=3))}:combstruct[gfsolve](G,unlabeled,x):seq(combstruct[count]([P,G,labeled],size=i),i=0..25); # Zerinvary Lajos, Dec 16 2007 g:=proc(n) option remember; if n=0 then RETURN(1); fi; if n<=2 then RETURN(0); fi; if n<=5 then RETURN(x); fi; expand(x*add(binomial(n-1,i)*g(i),i=0..n-3)); end; [seq(subs(x=1,g(n)),n=0..60)]; # N. J. A. Sloane, Jul 20 2011 -
Mathematica
a[ n_] := If[ n < 0, 0, n! SeriesCoefficient[ Exp[ Exp @ x - 1 - x - x^2 / 2], {x, 0, n}]] (* Michael Somos, Jul 20 2011 *) a[0] = 1; a[n_] := n!*Sum[Sum[k!*(-1)^(m-k)*Binomial[m, k]*Sum[StirlingS2[i+k, k]* Binomial[m-k, n-m-i]*2^(-n+m+i)/(i+k)!, {i, 0, n-m}], {k, 0, m}]/m!, {m, 1, n}]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 25}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Apr 03 2015, after Vladimir Kruchinin *) Table[Sum[(-1)^j * Binomial[n, j] * BellB[n-j] * 2^((j-1)/2) * HypergeometricU[(1 - j)/2, 3/2, 1/2], {j, 0, n}], {n, 0, 25}] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Feb 09 2020 *) -
PARI
{a(n) = if( n<0, 0, n! * polcoeff( exp( exp( x + x * O(x^n)) - 1 - x - x^2 / 2), n))} /* Michael Somos, Jul 20 2011 */
Formula
E.g.f.: exp ( exp x - 1 - x - (1/2)*x^2 ).
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..[n/3]} A059022(n,k), n>=3. - R. J. Mathar, Nov 08 2008
a(n) = n! * sum(m=1..n, sum(k=0..m, k!*(-1)^(m-k) *binomial(m,k) *sum(i=0..n-m, stirling2(i+k,k) *binomial(m-k,n-m-i) *2^(-n+m+i)/ (i+k)!))/m!); a(0)=1. - Vladimir Kruchinin, Feb 01 2011
Define polynomials g_n by g_0=1, g_1=g_2=0, g_3=g_4=g_5=x; g(n) = x*Sum_{i=0..n-3} binomial(n-1,i)*g_i; then a(n) = g_n(1). [Riordan]
a(0) = 1; a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n-3} binomial(n-1,k+2) * a(n-k-3). - Seiichi Manyama, Sep 22 2023
Extensions
More terms from Christian G. Bower, Nov 09 2000
Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Jul 20 2011