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This sequence, with first term a(0) deleted, appears to be determined by the conditions that the diagonal and first superdiagonal of U are {1,1,1,1,...} and {2,3,4,5,...,n+1,...} respectively, where A=LU is the LU factorization of the Hankel matrix A given by [{a(1),a(2),...}, {a(2),a(3),...}, ..., {a(n),a(n+1),...}, ...]. - John W. Layman, Jul 21 2000

Also the number of base 3 n-digit numbers (not starting with 0) with digit sum n. For the analogous sequence in base 10 see A071976, see example. - John W. Layman, Jun 22 2002

Also number of paths in an n X n grid from (0,0) to the line x=n-1, using only steps U=(1,1), H=(1,0) and D=(1,-1) (i.e., left factors of length n-1 of Motzkin paths, palindromic Motzkin paths of length 2n-2 or 2n-1). Example: a(3)=5, namely, HH, UD, HU, UH and UU. Also number of ordered trees with n edges and having nonroot nodes of outdegree at most 2. - Emeric Deutsch, Aug 01 2002

Number of symmetric Dyck paths of semilength 2n-1 with no peaks at even level. Example: a(3)=5 because we have UDUDUDUDUD, UDUUUDDDUD, UUUUUDDDDD, UUUDUDUDDD and UUUDDUUDDD, where U=(1,1) and D=(1,-1). Also number of symmetric Dyck paths of semilength 2n with no peaks at even level. Example: a(3)=5 because we have UDUDUDUDUDUD, UDUUUDUDDDUD, UUUDUDUDUDDD, UUUUUDUDDDDD and UUUDDDUUUDDD. - Emeric Deutsch, Nov 21 2003

a(n) is the sum of the (n-1)-st central trinomial coefficient and its predecessor. Example: a(4) = 6 + 7 and (1 + x + x^2)^3 = ... + 6*x^2 + 7*x^3 + ... . - David Callan, Feb 07 2004

a(n) is the number of UDU-free paths of n upsteps (U) and n downsteps (D) that start U (n>=1). Example: a(2)=2 counts UUDD, UDDU. - David Callan, Aug 18 2004

a(n) is also the number of Grand-Dyck paths of semilength n starting with an up-step and avoiding the pattern DUD. - David Bevan, Nov 19 2019

Hankel transform of a(n+1) = [1,2,5,13,35,96,...] gives A000012 = [1,1,1,1,1,1,...]. - Philippe Deléham, Oct 24 2007

Equals row sums of triangle A136787 starting (1, 2, 5, 13, 35, ...). - Gary W. Adamson, Jan 21 2008

a(n) is the number of permutations on [n] that avoid the patterns 1-23-4 and 1-3-2, where the omission of a dash in a pattern means the permutation entries must be adjacent. Example: a(4) = 13 counts all 14 (Catalan number) (1-3-2)-avoiding permutations on [4] except 1234. - David Callan, Jul 22 2008

a(n) is also the number of involutions of length 2n-2 which are invariant under the reverse-complement map and have no decreasing subsequences of length 4. - Eric S. Egge, Oct 21 2008

Hankel transform is A010892. - Paul Barry, Jan 19 2009

a(n) is the number of Dyck words of semilength n with no DUUU. For example, a(4) = 14-1 = 13 because there is only one Dyck 4-word containing DUUU, namely UDUUUDDD. - Eric Rowland, Apr 21 2009

Inverse binomial transform of A024718. - Philippe Deléham, Dec 13 2009

Let w(i, j, n) denote walks in N^2 which satisfy the multivariate recurrence

w(i, j, n) = w(i - 1, j, n - 1) + w(i, j - 1, n - 1) + w(i + 1, j - 1,n - 1) with boundary conditions w(0,0,0) = 1 and w(i,j,n) = 0 if i or j or n is < 0. Let alpha(n) the number of such walks of length n, alpha(n) = Sum_{i = 0..n, j=0..n} w(i, j, n). Then a(n+1) = alpha(n). - Peter Luschny, May 21 2011

Number of length-n strings [d(0),d(1),d(2),...,d(n-1)] where 0 <= d(k) <= k and abs(d(k) - d(k-1)) <= 1 (smooth factorial numbers, see example). - Joerg Arndt, Nov 10 2012

a(n) is the number of n-multisets of {1,...,n} containing no pair of consecutive integers (e.g., 111, 113, 133, 222, 333 for n=3). - David Bevan, Jun 10 2013

a(n) is also the number of n-multisets of [n] in which no integer except n occurs exactly once (e.g., 111, 113, 222, 223, 333 for n=3). - David Bevan, Nov 19 2019

Number of minimax elements in the affine Weyl group of the Lie algebra so(2n+1) or the Lie algebra sp(2n). See Panyushev 2005. Cf. A245455. - Peter Bala, Jul 22 2014

The shifted, signed array belongs to an interpolated family of arrays associated to the Catalan A000108 (t=1), and Riordan, or Motzkin sums A005043 (t=0), with the interpolating (here t=-2) o.g.f. G(x,t) = (1-sqrt(1-4x/(1+(1-t)x)))/2 and inverse o.g.f. Ginv(x,t) = x(1-x)/(1+(t-1)x(1-x)) (A057682). See A091867 for more info on this family. - Tom Copeland, Nov 09 2014

Alternatively, this sequence corresponds to the number of positive walks with n steps {-1,0,1} starting at the origin, ending at any altitude, and staying strictly above the x-axis. - David Nguyen, Dec 01 2016

Let N be a squarefree number with n prime factors: p_1 < p_2 < ... < p_n. Let D be its set of divisors, E the subset of D X D made of the (d_1, d_2) for which, provided that we know which p_i are in d_1, which p_i are in d_2, d_1 <= d_2 is provable without needing to know the numerical values of the p_i. It appears that a(n+1) is the number of (d_1, d_2) in E such that d_1 and d_2 are coprime. - Luc Rousseau, Aug 21 2017

Number of ordered rooted trees with n non-root nodes and all non-root nodes having outdegrees 1 or 2. - Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2017

a(n) is the number of compositions (ordered partitions) of n where there are A001006(k-1) sorts of part k (see formula by Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2017). - Joerg Arndt, Jan 26 2024

A set partition is capturing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...}, {...z...t...} where x < z < t < y or z < x < y < t. This is a weaker condition than nesting, so for example {{1,3,5},{2,4}} is capturing but not nesting.

First differs from A326256 in having 2599.

A prime index of n is a number m such that prime(m) divides n. The multiset of prime indices of n is row n of A112798. The multiset multisystem with MM-number n is obtained by taking the multiset of prime indices of each prime index of n.

A multiset partition is capturing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...} and {...z...t...} where x < z and t < y or z < x and y < t. This is a weaker condition than nesting, so for example {{1,3,5},{2,4}} is capturing but not nesting.

These are digraphs with the property that, if the edges are listed in lexicographic order, the sequence of targets is weakly increasing. For example, the digraph with lexicographically ordered edge set {(1,2),(2,1),(3,1),(3,2)} is nesting because the targets are (2,1,1,2), a sequence that is not weakly increasing.

Also the number of non-semicrossing digraphs with vertices {1..n}, where two edges (a,b), (c,d) are semicrossing if a < c and b < d or a > c and b > d. For example, the a(2) = 4 non-semicrossing digraph edge-sets are:

{}

{11}

{12}

{21}

{22}

{11,12}

{11,21}

{12,21}

{12,22}

{21,22}

{11,12,21}

{12,21,22}

Apparently a duplicate of A152254. - R. J. Mathar, Jul 12 2019

From Emeric Deutsch, Aug 21 2008: (Start)

Number of Dyck paths of height at least 4 and of semilength n. Example: a(5)=8 because we have UUUUUDDDDD, UUUUDUDDDD, UUUDUUDDDD, UUDUUUDDDD, UDUUUUDDDD and the reflection of the last three in a vertical axis.

Number of ordered trees of height at least 4 and having n edges. (End)

From Gus Wiseman, Jun 22 2019: (Start)

Also the number of non-crossing, capturing set partitions of {1..n}. A set partition is crossing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...}, {...z...t...} where x < z < y < t or z < x < t < y, and capturing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...}, {...z...t...} where x < z and y > t or x > z and y < t. Capturing is a weaker condition than nesting, so for example {{1,3,5},{2,4}} is capturing but not nesting. The a(4) = 1 and a(5) = 8 non-crossing, capturing set partitions are:

{{1,4},{2,3}} {{1,2,5},{3,4}}

{{1,4,5},{2,3}}

{{1,5},{2,3,4}}

{{1},{2,5},{3,4}}

{{1,4},{2,3},{5}}

{{1,5},{2},{3,4}}

{{1,5},{2,3},{4}}

{{1,5},{2,4},{3}}

(End)

A set partition is crossing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...}, {...z...t...} where x < z < y < t or z < x < t < y, and capturing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...}, {...z...t...} where x < z < t < y or z < x < y < t. Capturing is a weaker condition than nesting, so for example {{1,3,5},{2,4}} is capturing but not nesting.

Capturing is a weaker condition than nesting. A set partition is capturing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...}, {...z...t...} where x < z < t < y or z < x < y < t, and nesting if it has two blocks of the form {...x,y...}, {...z,t...} where x < z < t < y or z < x < y < t. For example, {{1,3,5},{2,4}} is capturing but not nesting, so is counted under a(5).

A prime index of n is a number m such that prime(m) divides n. The multiset of prime indices of n is row n of A112798. The multiset multisystem with MM-number n is obtained by taking the multiset of prime indices of each prime index of n.

A multiset partition is crossing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...}, {...z...t...} where x < z < y < t or z < x < t < y. It is capturing if it has two blocks of the form {...x...y...} and {...z...t...} where x < z and y > t or x > z and y < t. Capturing is a weaker condition than nesting, so for example {{1,3,5},{2,4}} is capturing but not nesting.

Also the number of non-capturing (cf. A054391) set-partitions of {1..n} without singletons. - Christian Sievers, Oct 29 2024