A059259 Triangle read by rows giving coefficient T(i,j) of x^i y^j in 1/(1-x-x*y-y^2) = 1/((1+y)(1-x-y)) for (i,j) = (0,0), (1,0), (0,1), (2,0), (1,1), (0,2), ...

1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 1, 4, 7, 6, 3, 0, 1, 5, 11, 13, 9, 3, 1, 1, 6, 16, 24, 22, 12, 4, 0, 1, 7, 22, 40, 46, 34, 16, 4, 1, 1, 8, 29, 62, 86, 80, 50, 20, 5, 0, 1, 9, 37, 91, 148, 166, 130, 70, 25, 5, 1, 1, 10, 46, 128, 239, 314, 296, 200

Offset: 0

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 23 2001

Keywords

• nonn
• tabl

Comments

This sequence provides the general solution to the recurrence a(n) = a(n-1) + k*(k+1)*a(n-2), a(0)=a(1)=1. The solution is (1, 1, k^2 + k + 1, 2*k^2 + 2*k + 1, ...) whose coefficients can be read from the rows of the triangle. The row sums of the triangle are given by the case k=1. These are the Jacobsthal numbers, A001045. Viewed as a square array, its first row is (1,0,1,0,1,...) with e.g.f. cosh(x), g.f. 1/(1-x^2) and subsequent rows are successive partial sums given by 1/((1-x)^n * (1-x^2)). - Paul Barry, Mar 17 2003

Conjecture: every second column of this triangle is identical to a column in the square array A071921. For example, column 4 of A059259 (1, 3, 9, 22, 46, ...) appears to be the same as column 3 of A071921; column 6 of A059259 (1, 4, 16, 50, 130, 296, ...) appears to be the same as column 4 of A071921; and in general column 2k of A059259 appears to be the same as column k+1 of A071921. Furthermore, since A225010 is a transposition of A071921 (ignoring the latter's top row and two leftmost columns), there appears to be a correspondence between column 2k of A059259 and row k of A225010. - Mathew Englander, May 17 2014

T(n,k) is the number of n-tilings of a (one-dimensional) board that use k (1,1)-fence tiles and n-k squares. A (1,1)-fence is a tile composed of two pieces of width 1 separated by a gap of width 1. - Michael A. Allen, Jun 25 2020

See the Edwards-Allen 2020 paper, page 14, for proof of Englander's conjecture. - Michael De Vlieger, Dec 10 2020

Examples

			Triangle begins:
  1;
  1,  0;
  1,  1,  1;
  1,  2,  2,   0;
  1,  3,  4,   2,   1;
  1,  4,  7,   6,   3,   0;
  1,  5, 11,  13,   9,   3,   1;
  1,  6, 16,  24,  22,  12,   4,   0;
  1,  7, 22,  40,  46,  34,  16,   4,  1;
  1,  8, 29,  62,  86,  80,  50,  20,  5,  0;
  1,  9, 37,  91, 148, 166, 130,  70, 25,  5, 1;
  1, 10, 46, 128, 239, 314, 296, 200, 95, 30, 6, 0;
...
		

Links

• G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for the first 50 rows, flattened
• Joseph Briggs, Alex Parker, Coy Schwieder, and Chris Wells, Frogs, hats and common subsequences, arXiv:2404.07285 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 28.
• Kenneth Edwards and Michael A. Allen, New Combinatorial Interpretations of the Fibonacci Numbers Squared, Golden Rectangle Numbers, and Jacobsthal Numbers Using Two Types of Tile, arXiv:2009.04649 [math.CO], 2020.

Crossrefs

See A059260 for an explicit formula.

Diagonals of this triangle are given by A006498.

Similar to the triangles A035317, A080242, A108561, A112555.

Cf. A123521, A157897.

Programs

Maple

read transforms; 1/(1-x-x*y-y^2); SERIES2(%,x,y,12); SERIES2TOLIST(%,x,y,12);

Mathematica

T[n_, 0]:= 1; T[n_, n_]:= (1+(-1)^n)/2; T[n_, k_]:= T[n, k] = T[n-1, k] + T[n-1, k-1]; Table[T[n, k], {n, 0, 10} , {k, 0, n}]//Flatten (* G. C. Greubel, Jan 03 2017 *)

PARI

{T(n,k) = if(k==0, 1, if(k==n, (1+(-1)^n)/2, T(n-1,k) +T(n-1,k-1)) )};
for(n=0,10, for(k=0,n, print1(T(n,k), ", "))) \\ G. C. Greubel, Apr 29 2019

Sage

def A059259_row(n):
    @cached_function
    def prec(n, k):
        if k==n: return (-1)^n
        if k==0: return 0
        return prec(n-1,k-1)-sum(prec(n,k+i-1) for i in (2..n-k+1))
    return [(-1)^(n-k+1)*prec(n+1, k) for k in (1..n)]
for n in (1..12): print(A059259_row(n)) # Peter Luschny, Mar 16 2016

Formula

G.f.: 1/(1 - x - x*y - y^2).

As a square array read by antidiagonals, this is T(n, k) = Sum_{i=0..n} (-1)^(n-i)*C(i+k, k). - Paul Barry, Jul 01 2003

T(2*n,n) = A026641(n). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 08 2007

T(n,k) = T(n-1,k) + T(n-2,k-1) + T(n-2,k-2), T(0,0) = T(1,0) = T(2,0) = T(2,1) = T(2,2)=1, T(1,1)=0, T(n,k)=0 if k < 0 or if k > n. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 24 2013

T(n,0) = 1, T(n,n) = (1+(-1)^n)/2, and T(n,k) = T(n-1,k) + T(n-1,k-1) for 0 < k < n. - Mathew Englander, May 24 2014

From Michael A. Allen, Jun 25 2020: (Start)

T(n,k) + T(n-1,k-1) = binomial(n,k) if n >= k > 0.

T(2*n-1,2*n-2) = T(2*n,2*n-1) = n, T(2*n,2*n-2) = n^2, T(2*n+1,2*n-1) = n*(n+1) for n > 0.

T(n,2) = binomial(n-2,2) + n - 1 for n > 1 and T(n,3) = binomial(n-3,3) + 2*binomial(n-2,2) for n > 2.

T(2*n-k,k) = A123521(n,k). (End)