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A001006 Motzkin numbers: number of ways of drawing any number of nonintersecting chords joining n (labeled) points on a circle.

1, 1, 2, 4, 9, 21, 51, 127, 323, 835, 2188, 5798, 15511, 41835, 113634, 310572, 853467, 2356779, 6536382, 18199284, 50852019, 142547559, 400763223, 1129760415, 3192727797, 9043402501, 25669818476, 73007772802, 208023278209, 593742784829, 1697385471211

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N. J. A. Sloane

Number of 4321-, (3412,2413)-, (3412,3142)- and 3412-avoiding involutions in S_n.
Number of sequences of length n-1 consisting of positive integers such that the first and last elements are 1 or 2 and the absolute difference between any 2 consecutive elements is 0 or 1. - Jon Perry, Sep 04 2003
From David Callan, Jul 15 2004: (Start)
Also number of Motzkin n-paths: paths from (0,0) to (n,0) in an n X n grid using only steps U = (1,1), F = (1,0) and D = (1,-1).
Number of Dyck n-paths with no UUU. (Given such a Dyck n-path, change each UUD to U, then change each remaining UD to F. This is a bijection to Motzkin n-paths. Example with n=5: U U D U D U U D D D -> U F U D D.)
Number of Dyck (n+1)-paths with no UDU. (Given such a Dyck (n+1)-path, mark each U that is followed by a D and each D that is not followed by a U. Then change each unmarked U whose matching D is marked to an F. Lastly, delete all the marked steps. This is a bijection to Motzkin n-paths. Example with n=6 and marked steps in small type: U U u d D U U u d d d D u d -> U U u d D F F u d d d D u d -> U U D F F D.) (End)
a(n) is the number of strings of length 2n+2 from the following recursively defined set: L contains the empty string and, for any strings a and b in L, we also find (ab) in L. The first few elements of L are e, (), (()), ((())), (()()), (((()))), ((()())), ((())()), (()(())) and so on. This proves that a(n) is less than or equal to C(n), the n-th Catalan number. See Orrick link (2024). - Saul Schleimer (saulsch(AT)math.rutgers.edu), Feb 23 2006 (Additional linked comment added by William P. Orrick, Jun 13 2024.)
a(n) = number of Dyck n-paths all of whose valleys have even x-coordinate (when path starts at origin). For example, T(4,2)=3 counts UDUDUUDD, UDUUDDUD, UUDDUDUD. Given such a path, split it into n subpaths of length 2 and transform UU->U, DD->D, UD->F (there will be no DUs for that would entail a valley with odd x-coordinate). This is a bijection to Motzkin n-paths. - David Callan, Jun 07 2006
Also the number of standard Young tableaux of height <= 3. - Mike Zabrocki, Mar 24 2007
a(n) is the number of RNA shapes of size 2n+2. RNA Shapes are essentially Dyck words without "directly nested" motifs of the form A[[B]]C, for A, B and C Dyck words. The first RNA Shapes are []; [][]; [][][], [[][]]; [][][][], [][[][]], [[][][]], [[][]][]; ... - Yann Ponty (ponty(AT)lri.fr), May 30 2007
The sequence is self-generated from top row A going to the left starting (1,1) and bottom row = B, the same sequence but starting (0,1) and going to the right. Take dot product of A and B and add the result to n-th term of A to get the (n+1)-th term of A. Example: a(5) = 21 as follows: Take dot product of A = (9, 4, 2, 1, 1) and (0, 1, 1, 2, 4) = (0, + 4 + 2 + 2 + 4) = 12; which is added to 9 = 21. - Gary W. Adamson, Oct 27 2008
Equals A005773 / A005773 shifted (i.e., (1,2,5,13,35,96,...) / (1,1,2,5,13,35,96,...)). - Gary W. Adamson, Dec 21 2008
Starting with offset 1 = iterates of M * [1,1,0,0,0,...], where M = a tridiagonal matrix with [0,1,1,1,...] in the main diagonal and [1,1,1,...] in the super and subdiagonals. - Gary W. Adamson, Jan 07 2009
a(n) is the number of involutions of {1,2,...,n} having genus 0. The genus g(p) of a permutation p of {1,2,...,n} is defined by g(p)=(1/2)[n+1-z(p)-z(cp')], where p' is the inverse permutation of p, c = 234...n1 = (1,2,...,n), and z(q) is the number of cycles of the permutation q. Example: a(4)=9; indeed, p=3412=(13)(24) is the only involution of {1,2,3,4} with genus > 0. This follows easily from the fact that a permutation p of {1,2,...,n} has genus 0 if and only if the cycle decomposition of p gives a noncrossing partition of {1,2,...,n} and each cycle of p is increasing (see Lemma 2.1 of the Dulucq-Simion reference). [Also, redundantly, for p=3412=(13)(24) we have cp'=2341*3412=4123=(1432) and so g(p)=(1/2)(4+1-2-1)=1.] - Emeric Deutsch, May 29 2010
Let w(i,j,n) denote walks in N^2 which satisfy the multivariate recurrence w(i,j,n) = w(i, j + 1, n - 1) + w(i - 1, j, 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. Then a(n) = Sum_{i = 0..n, j = 0..n} w(i,j,n) is the number of such walks of length n. - Peter Luschny, May 21 2011
a(n)/a(n-1) tends to 3.0 as N->infinity: (1+2*cos(2*Pi/N)) relating to longest odd N regular polygon diagonals, by way of example, N=7: Using the tridiagonal generator [cf. comment of Jan 07 2009], for polygon N=7, we extract an (N-1)/2 = 3 X 3 matrix, [0,1,0; 1,1,1; 0,1,1] with an e-val of 2.24697...; the longest Heptagon diagonal with edge = 1. As N tends to infinity, the diagonal lengths tend to 3.0, the convergent of the sequence. - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 08 2011
Number of (n+1)-length permutations avoiding the pattern 132 and the dotted pattern 23\dot{1}. - Jean-Luc Baril, Mar 07 2012
Number of n-length words w over alphabet {a,b,c} such that for every prefix z of w we have #(z,a) >= #(z,b) >= #(z,c), where #(z,x) counts the letters x in word z. The a(4) = 9 words are: aaaa, aaab, aaba, abaa, aabb, abab, aabc, abac, abca. - Alois P. Heinz, May 26 2012
Number of length-n restricted growth strings (RGS) [r(1), r(2), ..., r(n)] such that r(1)=1, r(k)<=k, and r(k)!=r(k-1); for example, the 9 RGS for n=4 are 1010, 1012, 1201, 1210, 1212, 1230, 1231, 1232, 1234. - Joerg Arndt, Apr 16 2013
Number of length-n restricted growth strings (RGS) [r(1), r(2), ..., r(n)] such that r(1)=0, r(k)<=k and r(k)-r(k-1) != 1; for example, the 9 RGS for n=4 are 0000, 0002, 0003, 0004, 0022, 0024, 0033, 0222, 0224. - Joerg Arndt, Apr 17 2013
Number of (4231,5276143)-avoiding involutions in S_n. - Alexander Burstein, Mar 05 2014
a(n) is the number of increasing unary-binary trees with n nodes that have an associated permutation that avoids 132. For more information about unary-binary trees with associated permutations, see A245888. - Manda Riehl, Aug 07 2014
a(n) is the number of involutions on [n] avoiding the single pattern p, where p is any one of the 8 (classical) patterns 1234, 1243, 1432, 2134, 2143, 3214, 3412, 4321. Also, number of (3412,2413)-, (3412,3142)-, (3412,2413,3142)-avoiding involutions on [n] because each of these 3 sets actually coincides with the 3412-avoiding involutions on [n]. This is a complete list of the 8 singles, 2 pairs, and 1 triple of 4-letter classical patterns whose involution avoiders are counted by the Motzkin numbers. (See Barnabei et al. 2011 reference.) - David Callan, Aug 27 2014
From Tony Foster III, Jul 28 2016: (Start)
A series created using 2*a(n) + a(n+1) has Hankel transform of F(2n), offset 3, F being the Fibonacci bisection, A001906 (empirical observation).
A series created using 2*a(n) + 3*a(n+1) + a(n+2) gives the Hankel transform of Sum_{k=0..n} k*Fibonacci(2*k), offset 3, A197649 (empirical observation). (End)
Conjecture: (2/n)*Sum_{k=1..n} (2k+1)*a(k)^2 is an integer for each positive integer n. - Zhi-Wei Sun, Nov 16 2017
The Rubey and Stump reference proves a refinement of a conjecture of René Marczinzik, which they state as: "The number of 2-Gorenstein algebras which are Nakayama algebras with n simple modules and have an oriented line as associated quiver equals the number of Motzkin paths of length n." - Eric M. Schmidt, Dec 16 2017
Number of U_{k}-equivalence classes of Łukasiewicz paths. Łukasiewicz paths are P-equivalent iff the positions of pattern P are identical in these paths. - Sergey Kirgizov, Apr 08 2018
If tau_1 and tau_2 are two distinct permutation patterns chosen from the set {132,231,312}, then a(n) is the number of valid hook configurations of permutations of [n+1] that avoid the patterns tau_1 and tau_2. - Colin Defant, Apr 28 2019
Number of permutations of length n that are sorted to the identity by a consecutive-321-avoiding stack followed by a classical-21-avoiding stack. - Colin Defant, Aug 29 2020
From Helmut Prodinger, Dec 13 2020: (Start)
a(n) is the number of paths in the first quadrant starting at (0,0) and consisting of n steps from the infinite set {(1,1), (1,-1), (1,-2), (1,-3), ...}.
For example, denoting U=(1,1), D=(1,-1), D_ j=(1,-j) for j >= 2, a(4) counts UUUU, UUUD, UUUD_2, UUUD_3, UUDU, UUDD, UUD_2U, UDUU, UDUD.
This step set is inspired by {(1,1), (1,-1), (1,-3), (1,-5), ...}, suggested by Emeric Deutsch around 2000.
See Prodinger link that contains a bijection to Motzkin paths. (End)
Named by Donaghey (1977) after the Israeli-American mathematician Theodore Motzkin (1908-1970). In Sloane's "A Handbook of Integer Sequences" (1973) they were called "generalized ballot numbers". - Amiram Eldar, Apr 15 2021
Number of Motzkin n-paths a(n) is split into A107587(n), number of even Motzkin n-paths, and A343386(n), number of odd Motzkin n-paths. The value A107587(n) - A343386(n) can be called the "shadow" of a(n) (see A343773). - Gennady Eremin, May 17 2021
Conjecture: If p is a prime of the form 6m+1 (A002476), then a(p-2) is divisible by p. Currently, no counterexample exists for p < 10^7. Personal communication from Robert Gerbicz: mod such p this is equivalent to A066796 with comment: "Every A066796(n) from A066796((p-1)/2) to A066796(p-1) is divisible by prime p of form 6m+1". - Serge Batalov, Feb 08 2022
From Rob Burns, Nov 11 2024: (Start)
The conjecture is proved in the 2017 paper by Rob Burns in the Links below. The result is contained in Tables 4 and 5 of the paper, which show that a(p-2) == 0 (mod p) when p == 1 (mod 6) and a(p-2) == -1 (mod p) when p == -1 (mod 6).
In fact, the 2017 paper by Burns establishes more general congruences for a(p^k - 2) where k >= 1.
If p == 1 (mod 6) then a(p^k - 2) == 0 (mod p) for k >= 1.
If p == -1 (mod 6) then a(p^k - 2) == -1 (mod p) when k is odd and a(p^k - 2) == 0 (mod p) when k is even.
These are consequences of the transitions provided in Tables 4, 5 and 6 of the paper.
The 2024 paper by Nadav Kohen also proves the conjecture. Proposition 6 of the paper states that a prime p divides a(p-2) if and only if p = (1 mod 3). (End)
From Peter Bala, Feb 10 2022: (Start)
Conjectures:
(1) For prime p == 1 (mod 6) and n, r >= 1, a(n*p^r - 2) == -A005717(n-1) (mod p), where we take A005717(0) = 0 to match Batalov's conjecture above.
(2) For prime p == 5 (mod 6) and n >= 1, a(n*p - 2) == -A005773(n) (mod p).
(3) For prime p >= 3 and k >= 1, a(n + p^k) == a(n) (mod p) for 0 <= n <= (p^k - 3).
(4) For prime p >= 5 and k >= 2, a(n + p^k) == a(n) (mod p^2) for 0 <= n <= (p^(k-1) - 3). (End)
The Hankel transform of this sequence with a(0) omitted gives the period-6 sequence [1, 0, -1, -1, 0, 1, ...] which is A010892 with its first term omitted, while the Hankel transform of the current sequence is the all-ones sequence A000012, and also it is the unique sequence with this property which is similar to the unique Hankel transform property of the Catalan numbers. - Michael Somos, Apr 17 2022
The number of terms in which the exponent of any variable x_i is not greater than 2 in the expansion of Product_{j=1..n} Sum_{i=1..j} x_i. E.g.: a(4) = 9: 3*x1^2*x2^2, 4*x1^2*x2*x3, 2*x1^2*x2*x4, x1^2*x3^2, x1^2*x3*x4, 2*x1*x2^2*x3, x1*x2^2*x4, x1*x2*x3^2, x1*x2*x3*x4. - Elif Baser, Dec 20 2024

			G.f.: 1 + x + 2*x^2 + 4*x^3 + 9*x^4 + 21*x^5 + 51*x^6 + 127*x^7 + 323*x^8 + ...
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The 21 Motzkin-paths of length 5: UUDDF, UUDFD, UUFDD, UDUDF, UDUFD, UDFUD, UDFFF, UFUDD, UFDUD, UFDFF, UFFDF, UFFFD, FUUDD, FUDUD, FUDFF, FUFDF, FUFFD, FFUDF, FFUFD, FFFUD, FFFFF.

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Index entries for "core" sequences

Cf. A026300, A005717, A020474, A001850, A004148. First column of A064191, A064189, A000108, A088615, A007971, A001405, A005817, A049401, A007579, A007578, A097862, A005773, A178515, A217275. First row of A064645.
Bisections: A026945, A099250.
Sequences related to chords in a circle: A001006, A054726, A006533, A006561, A006600, A007569, A007678. See also entries for chord diagrams in Index file.
a(n) = A005043(n)+A005043(n+1).
A086246 is another version, although this is the main entry. Column k=3 of A182172.
Motzkin numbers A001006 read mod 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,11: A039963, A039964, A299919, A258712, A299920, A258711, A299918, A258710.
Cf. A004148, A004149, A023421, A023422, A023423, A290277 (inv. Euler Transf.).

a001006 n = a001006_list !! n
a001006_list = zipWith (+) a005043_list $ tail a005043_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 31 2012

# Three different Maple scripts for this sequence:
A001006 := proc(n)
    add(binomial(n,2*k)*A000108(k),k=0..floor(n/2)) ;
end proc:
A001006 := proc(n) option remember; local k; if n <= 1 then 1 else procname(n-1) + add(procname(k)*procname(n-k-2),k=0..n-2); end if; end proc:
# n -> [a(0),a(1),..,a(n)]
A001006_list := proc(n) local w, m, j, i; w := proc(i,j,n) option remember;
if min(i,j,n) < 0 or max(i,j) > n then 0
elif n = 0 then if i = 0 and j = 0 then 1 else 0 fi else
w(i, j + 1, n - 1) + w(i - 1, j, n - 1) + w(i + 1, j - 1, n - 1) fi end:
[seq( add( add( w(i, j, m), i = 0..m), j = 0..m), m = 0..n)] end:
A001006_list(29); # Peter Luschny, May 21 2011

a[0] = 1; a[n_Integer] := a[n] = a[n - 1] + Sum[a[k] * a[n - 2 - k], {k, 0, n - 2}]; Array[a, 30]
(* Second program: *)
CoefficientList[Series[(1 - x - (1 - 2x - 3x^2)^(1/2))/(2x^2), {x, 0, 29}], x] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 29 2011 *)
Table[Hypergeometric2F1[(1-n)/2, -n/2, 2, 4], {n,0,29}] (* Peter Luschny, May 15 2016 *)
Table[GegenbauerC[n,-n-1,-1/2]/(n+1),{n,0,100}] (* Emanuele Munarini, Oct 20 2016 *)
MotzkinNumber = DifferenceRoot[Function[{y, n}, {(-3n-3)*y[n] + (-2n-5)*y[n+1] + (n+4)*y[n+2] == 0, y[0] == 1, y[1] == 1}]];
Table[MotzkinNumber[n], {n, 0, 29}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 27 2021 *)

a[0]:1$
a[1]:1$
a[n]:=((2*n+1)*a[n-1]+(3*n-3)*a[n-2])/(n+2)$
makelist(a[n],n,0,12); /* Emanuele Munarini, Mar 02 2011 */

M(n) := coeff(expand((1+x+x^2)^(n+1)),x^n)/(n+1);
makelist(M(n),n,0,60); /* Emanuele Munarini, Apr 04 2012 */

makelist(ultraspherical(n,-n-1,-1/2)/(n+1),n,0,12); /* Emanuele Munarini, Oct 20 2016 */

{a(n) = polcoeff( ( 1 - x - sqrt((1 - x)^2 - 4 * x^2 + x^3 * O(x^n))) / (2 * x^2), n)}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 25 2003 */

{a(n) = if( n<0, 0, n++; polcoeff( serreverse( x / (1 + x + x^2) + x * O(x^n)), n))}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 25 2003 */

{a(n) = if( n<0, 0, n! * polcoeff( exp(x + x * O(x^n)) * besseli(1, 2 * x + x * O(x^n)), n))}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 25 2003 */

from gmpy2 import divexact
A001006 = [1, 1]
for n in range(2, 10**3):
    A001006.append(divexact(A001006[-1]*(2*n+1)+(3*n-3)*A001006[-2],n+2))
# Chai Wah Wu, Sep 01 2014

def mot():
    a, b, n = 0, 1, 1
    while True:
        yield b//n
        n += 1
        a, b = b, (3*(n-1)*n*a+(2*n-1)*n*b)//((n+1)*(n-1))
A001006 = mot()
print([next(A001006) for n in range(30)]) # Peter Luschny, May 16 2016

# A simple generator of Motzkin-paths (see the first comment of David Callan).
C = str.count
def aGen(n: int):
    a = [""]
    for w in a:
        if len(w) == n:
            if C(w, "U") == C(w, "D"): yield w
        else:
            for j in "UDF":
                u = w + j
                if C(u, "U") >= C(u, "D"): a += [u]
    return a
for n in range(6):
    MP = [w for w in aGen(n)];
    print(len(MP), ":", MP)  # Peter Luschny, Dec 03 2024

G.f.: A(x) = ( 1 - x - (1-2*x-3*x^2)^(1/2) ) / (2*x^2).
G.f. A(x) satisfies A(x) = 1 + x*A(x) + x^2*A(x)^2.
G.f.: F(x)/x where F(x) is the reversion of x/(1+x+x^2). - Joerg Arndt, Oct 23 2012
a(n) = (-1/2) Sum_{i+j = n+2, i >= 0, j >= 0} (-3)^i*C(1/2, i)*C(1/2, j).
a(n) = (3/2)^(n+2) * Sum_{k >= 1} 3^(-k) * Catalan(k-1) * binomial(k, n+2-k). [Doslic et al.]
a(n) ~ 3^(n+1)*sqrt(3)*(1 + 1/(16*n))/((2*n+3)*sqrt((n+2)*Pi)). [Barcucci, Pinzani and Sprugnoli]
Limit_{n->infinity} a(n)/a(n-1) = 3. [Aigner]
a(n+2) - a(n+1) = a(0)*a(n) + a(1)*a(n-1) + ... + a(n)*a(0). [Bernhart]
a(n) = (1/(n+1)) * Sum_{i} (n+1)!/(i!*(i+1)!*(n-2*i)!). [Bernhart]
From Len Smiley: (Start)
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^(n-k)*binomial(n, k)*A000108(k+1), inv. Binomial Transform of A000108.
a(n) = (1/(n+1))*Sum_{k=0..ceiling((n+1)/2)} binomial(n+1, k)*binomial(n+1-k, k-1);
D-finite with recurrence: (n+2)*a(n) = (2*n+1)*a(n-1) + (3*n-3)*a(n-2). (End)
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} C(n, 2k)*A000108(k). - Paul Barry, Jul 18 2003
E.g.f.: exp(x)*BesselI(1, 2*x)/x. - Vladeta Jovovic, Aug 20 2003
a(n) = A005043(n) + A005043(n+1).
The Hankel transform of this sequence gives A000012 = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ...]. E.g., Det([1, 1, 2, 4; 1, 2, 4, 9; 2, 4, 9, 21; 4, 9, 21, 51]) = 1. - Philippe Deléham, Feb 23 2004
a(m+n) = Sum_{k>=0} A064189(m, k)*A064189(n, k). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 05 2004
a(n) = (1/(n+1))*Sum_{j=0..floor(n/3)} (-1)^j*binomial(n+1, j)*binomial(2*n-3*j, n). - Emeric Deutsch, Mar 13 2004
a(n) = A086615(n) - A086615(n-1) (n >= 1). - Emeric Deutsch, Jul 12 2004
G.f.: A(x)=(1-y+y^2)/(1-y)^2 where (1+x)*(y^2-y)+x=0; A(x)=4*(1+x)/(1+x+sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2))^2; a(n)=(3/4)*(1/2)^n*Sum_(k=0..2*n, 3^(n-k)*C(k)*C(k+1, n+1-k) ) + 0^n/4 [after Doslic et al.]. - Paul Barry, Feb 22 2005
G.f.: c(x^2/(1-x)^2)/(1-x), c(x) the g.f. of A000108. - Paul Barry, May 31 2006
Asymptotic formula: a(n) ~ sqrt(3/4/Pi)*3^(n+1)/n^(3/2). - Benoit Cloitre, Jan 25 2007
a(n) = A007971(n+2)/2. - Zerinvary Lajos, Feb 28 2007
a(n) = (1/(2*Pi))*Integral_{x=-1..3} x^n*sqrt((3-x)*(1+x)) is the moment representation. - Paul Barry, Sep 10 2007
Given an integer t >= 1 and initial values u = [a_0, a_1, ..., a_{t-1}], we may define an infinite sequence Phi(u) by setting a_n = a_{n-1} + a_0*a_{n-1} + a_1*a_{n-2} + ... + a_{n-2}*a_1 for n >= t. For example, Phi([1]) is the Catalan numbers A000108. The present sequence is Phi([0,1,1]), see the 6th formula. - Gary W. Adamson, Oct 27 2008
G.f.: 1/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/.... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Dec 06 2008
G.f.: 1/(1-(x+x^2)/(1-x^2/(1-(x+x^2)/(1-x^2/(1-(x+x^2)/(1-x^2/(1-.... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Feb 08 2009
a(n) = (-3)^(1/2)/(6*(n+2)) * (-1)^n*(3*hypergeom([1/2, n+1],[1],4/3) - hypergeom([1/2, n+2],[1],4/3)). - Mark van Hoeij, Nov 12 2009
G.f.: 1/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x^2/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x^2/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x^2/(1-... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Mar 02 2010
G.f.: 1/(1-x/(1-x/(1+x-x/(1-x/(1+x-x/(1-x/(1+x-x/(1-x/(1+x-x/(1-... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Jan 26 2011 [Adds apparently a third '1' in front. - R. J. Mathar, Jan 29 2011]
Let A(x) be the g.f., then B(x)=1+x*A(x) = 1 + 1*x + 1*x^2 + 2*x^3 + 4*x^4 + 9*x^5 + ... = 1/(1-z/(1-z/(1-z/(...)))) where z=x/(1+x) (continued fraction); more generally B(x)=C(x/(1+x)) where C(x) is the g.f. for the Catalan numbers (A000108). - Joerg Arndt, Mar 18 2011
a(n) = (2/Pi)*Integral_{x=-1..1} (1+2*x)^n*sqrt(1-x^2). - Peter Luschny, Sep 11 2011
G.f.: (1-x-sqrt(1-2*x-3*(x^2)))/(2*(x^2)) = 1/2/(x^2)-1/2/x-1/2/(x^2)*G(0); G(k) = 1+(4*k-1)*x*(2+3*x)/(4*k+2-x*(2+3*x)*(4*k+1)*(4*k+2) /(x*(2+3*x)*(4*k+1)+(4*k+4)/G(k+1))), if -1 < x < 1/3; (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Dec 01 2011
G.f.: (1-x-sqrt(1-2*x-3*(x^2)))/(2*(x^2)) = (-1 + 1/G(0))/(2*x); G(k) = 1-2*x/(1+x/(1+x/(1-2*x/(1-x/(2-x/G(k+1)))))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Dec 11 2011
0 = a(n) * (9*a(n+1) + 15*a(n+2) - 12*a(n+3)) + a(n+1) * ( -3*a(n+1) + 10*a(n+2) - 5*a(n+3)) + a(n+2) * (a(n+2) + a(n+3)) unless n=-2. - Michael Somos, Mar 23 2012
a(n) = (-1)^n*hypergeometric([-n,3/2],[3],4). - Peter Luschny, Aug 15 2012
Representation in terms of special values of Jacobi polynomials P(n,alpha,beta,x), in Maple notation: a(n)= 2*(-1)^n*n!*JacobiP(n,2,-3/2-n,-7)/(n+2)!, n>=0. - Karol A. Penson, Jun 24 2013
G.f.: Q(0)/x - 1/x, where Q(k) = 1 + (4*k+1)*x/((1+x)*(k+1) - x*(1+x)*(2*k+2)*(4*k+3)/(x*(8*k+6)+(2*k+3)*(1+x)/Q(k+1))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, May 14 2013
Catalan(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n,k)*a(k). E.g.: 42 = 1*1 + 4*1 + 6*2 + 4*4 + 1*9. - Doron Zeilberger, Mar 12 2015
G.f. A(x) with offset 1 satisfies: A(x)^2 = A( x^2/(1-2*x) ). - Paul D. Hanna, Nov 08 2015
a(n) = GegenbauerPoly(n,-n-1,-1/2)/(n+1). - Emanuele Munarini, Oct 20 2016
a(n) = a(n-1) + A002026(n-1). Number of Motzkin paths that start with an F step plus number of Motzkin paths that start with an U step. - R. J. Mathar, Jul 25 2017
G.f. A(x) satisfies A(x)*A(-x) = F(x^2), where F(x) is the g.f. of A168592. - Alexander Burstein, Oct 04 2017
G.f.: A(x) = exp(int((E(x)-1)/x dx)), where E(x) is the g.f. of A002426. Equivalently, E(x) = 1 + x*A'(x)/A(x). - Alexander Burstein, Oct 05 2017
G.f. A(x) satisfies: A(x) = Sum_{j>=0} x^j * Sum_{k=0..j} binomial(j,k)*x^k*A(x)^k. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Apr 11 2019
From Gennady Eremin, May 08 2021: (Start)
G.f.: 2/(1 - x + sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2)).
a(n) = A107587(n) + A343386(n) = 2*A107587(n) - A343773(n) = 2*A343386(n) + A343773(n). (End)
Revert transform of A049347 (after Michael Somos). - Gennady Eremin, Jun 11 2021
Sum_{n>=0} 1/a(n) = 2.941237337631025604300320152921013604885956025483079699366681494505960039781389... - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jun 17 2021
Let a(-1) = (1 - sqrt(-3))/2 and a(n) = a(-3-n)*(-3)^(n+3/2) for all n in Z. Then a(n) satisfies my previous formula relation from Mar 23 2012 now for all n in Z. - Michael Somos, Apr 17 2022
Let b(n) = 1 for n <= 1, otherwise b(n) = Sum_{k=2..n} b(k-1) * b(n-k), then a(n) = b(n+1) (conjecture). - Joerg Arndt, Jan 16 2023
From Peter Bala, Feb 03 2024: (Start)
G.f.: A(x) = 1/(1 + x)*c(x/(1 + x))^2 = 1 + x/(1 + x)*c(x/(1 + x))^3, where c(x) = (1 - sqrt(1 - 4*x))/(2*x) is the g.f. of the Catalan numbers A000108.
A(x) = 1/(1 - 3*x)*c(-x/(1 -3*x))^2.
a(n+1) = Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^(n-k)*binomial(n, k)*A000245(k+1).
a(n) = 3^n * Sum_{k = 0..n} (-3)^(-k)*binomial(n, k)*Catalan(k+1).
a(n) = 3^n * hypergeom([3/2, -n], [3], 4/3). (End)
G.f. A(x) satisfies A(x) = exp( x*A(x) + Integral x*A(x)/(1 - x^2*A(x)) dx ). - Paul D. Hanna, Mar 04 2024
a(n) = hypergeom([-n/2,1/2-n/2],[2],4). - Karol A. Penson, May 18 2025

A005043 Riordan numbers: a(n) = (n-1)(2a(n-1) + 3*a(n-2))/(n+1).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 1, 1, 3, 6, 15, 36, 91, 232, 603, 1585, 4213, 11298, 30537, 83097, 227475, 625992, 1730787, 4805595, 13393689, 37458330, 105089229, 295673994, 834086421, 2358641376, 6684761125, 18985057351, 54022715451, 154000562758, 439742222071, 1257643249140

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N. J. A. Sloane

Also called Motzkin summands or ring numbers.
The old name was "Motzkin sums", used in certain publications. The sequence has the property that Motzkin(n) = A001006(n) = a(n) + a(n+1), e.g., A001006(4) = 9 = 3 + 6 = a(4) + a(5).
Number of 'Catalan partitions', that is partitions of a set 1,2,3,...,n into parts that are not singletons and whose convex hulls are disjoint when the points are arranged on a circle (so when the parts are all pairs we get Catalan numbers). - Aart Blokhuis (aartb(AT)win.tue.nl), Jul 04 2000
Number of ordered trees with n edges and no vertices of outdegree 1. For n > 1, number of dissections of a convex polygon by nonintersecting diagonals with a total number of n+1 edges. - Emeric Deutsch, Mar 06 2002
Number of Motzkin paths of length n with no horizontal steps at level 0. - Emeric Deutsch, Nov 09 2003
Number of Dyck paths of semilength n with no peaks at odd level. Example: a(4)=3 because we have UUUUDDDD, UUDDUUDD and UUDUDUDD, where U=(1,1), D=(1,-1). Number of Dyck paths of semilength n with no ascents of length 1 (an ascent in a Dyck path is a maximal string of up steps). Example: a(4)=3 because we have UUUUDDDD, UUDDUUDD and UUDUUDDD. - Emeric Deutsch, Dec 05 2003
Arises in Schubert calculus as follows. Let P = complex projective space of dimension n+1. Take n projective subspaces of codimension 3 in P in general position. Then a(n) is the number of lines of P intersecting all these subspaces. - F. Hirzebruch, Feb 09 2004
Difference between central trinomial coefficient and its predecessor. Example: a(6) = 15 = 141 - 126 and (1 + x + x^2)^6 = ... + 126*x^5 + 141*x^6 + ... (Catalan number A000108(n) is the difference between central binomial coefficient and its predecessor.) - David Callan, Feb 07 2004
a(n) = number of 321-avoiding permutations on [n] in which each left-to-right maximum is a descent (i.e., is followed by a smaller number). For example, a(4) counts 4123, 3142, 2143. - David Callan, Jul 20 2005
The Hankel transform of this sequence give A000012 = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ...]; example: Det([1, 0, 1, 1; 0, 1, 1, 3; 1, 1, 3, 6; 1, 3, 6, 15]) = 1. - Philippe Deléham, May 28 2005
The number of projective invariants of degree 2 for n labeled points on the projective line. - Benjamin J. Howard (bhoward(AT)ima.umn.edu), Nov 24 2006
Define a random variable X=trA^2, where A is a 2 X 2 unitary symplectic matrix chosen from USp(2) with Haar measure. The n-th central moment of X is E[(X+1)^n] = a(n). - Andrew V. Sutherland, Dec 02 2007
Let V be the adjoint representation of the complex Lie algebra sl(2). The dimension of the invariant subspace of the n-th tensor power of V is a(n). - Samson Black (sblack1(AT)uoregon.edu), Aug 27 2008
Starting with offset 3 = iterates of M * [1,1,1,...], where M = a tridiagonal matrix with [0,1,1,1,...] in the main diagonal and [1,1,1,...] in the super and subdiagonals. - Gary W. Adamson, Jan 08 2009
a(n) has the following standard-Young-tableaux (SYT) interpretation: binomial(n+1,k)*binomial(n-k-1,k-1)/(n+1)=f^(k,k,1^{n-2k}) where f^lambda equals the number of SYT of shape lambda. - Amitai Regev (amotai.regev(AT)weizmann.ac.il), Mar 02 2010
a(n) is also the sum of the numbers of standard Young tableaux of shapes (k,k,1^{n-2k}) for all 1 <= k <= floor(n/2). - Amitai Regev (amotai.regev(AT)weizmann.ac.il), Mar 10 2010
a(n) is the number of derangements of {1,2,...,n} having genus 0. The genus g(p) of a permutation p of {1,2,...,n} is defined by g(p)=(1/2)[n+1-z(p)-z(cp')], where p' is the inverse permutation of p, c = 234...n1 = (1,2,...,n), and z(q) is the number of cycles of the permutation q. Example: a(3)=1 because p=231=(123) is the only derangement of {1,2,3} with genus 0. Indeed, cp'=231*312=123=(1)(2)(3) and so g(p) = (1/2)(3+1-1-3)=0. - Emeric Deutsch, May 29 2010
Apparently: Number of Dyck 2n-paths with all ascents length 2 and no descent length 2. - David Scambler, Apr 17 2012
This is true. Proof: The mapping "insert a peak (UD) after each upstep (U)" is a bijection from all Dyck n-paths to those Dyck (2n)-paths in which each ascent is of length 2. It sends descents of length 1 in the n-path to descents of length 2 in the (2n)-path. But Dyck n-paths with no descents of length 1 are equinumerous with Riordan n-paths (Motzkin n-paths with no flatsteps at ground level) as follows. Given a Dyck n-path with no descents of length 1, split it into consecutive step pairs, then replace UU with U, DD with D, UD with a blue flatstep (F), DU with a red flatstep, and concatenate the new steps to get a colored Motzkin path. Each red F will be (immediately) preceded by a blue F or a D. In the latter case, transfer the red F so that it precedes the matching U of the D. Finally, erase colors to get the required Riordan path. For example, with lowercase f denoting a red flatstep, U^5 D^2 U D^4 U^4 D^3 U D^2 -> (U^2, U^2, UD, DU, D^2, D^2, U^2, U^2 D^2, DU, D^2) -> UUFfDDUUDfD -> UUFFDDUFUDD. - David Callan, Apr 25 2012
From Nolan Wallach, Aug 20 2014: (Start)
Let ch[part1, part2] be the value of the character of the symmetric group on n letters corresponding to the partition part1 of n on the conjucgacy class given by part2. Let A[n] be the set of (n+1) partitions of 2n with parts 1 or 2. Then deleting the first term of the sequence one has a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n+1} binomial(n,k-1)*ch[[n,n], A[n][[k]]])/2^n. This via the Frobenius Character Formula can be interpreted as the dimension of the SL(n,C) invariants in tensor^n (wedge^2 C^n).
Explanation: Let p_j denote sum (x_i)^j the sum in k variables. Then the Frobenius formula says then (p_1)^j_1 (p_2)^j_2 ... (p_r)^j_r is equal to sum(lambda, ch[lambda, 1^j_12^j_2 ... r^j_r] S_lambda) with S_lambda the Schur function corresponding to lambda. This formula implies that the coefficient of S([n,n]) in (((p_1)^1+p_2)/2)^n in its expansion in terms of Schur functions is the right hand side of our formula. If we specialize the number of variables to 2 then S[n,n](x,y)=(xy)^n. Which when restricted to y=x^(-1) is 1. That is it is 1 on SL(2).
On the other hand ((p_1)^2+p_2)/2 is the complete homogeneous symmetric function of degree 2 that is tr(S^2(X)). Thus our formula for a(n) is the same as that of Samson Black above since his V is the same as S^2(C^2) as a representation of SL(2). On the other hand, if we multiply ch(lambda) by sgn you get ch(Transpose(lambda)). So ch([n,n]) becomes ch([2,...,2]) (here there are n 2's). The formula for a(n) is now (1/2^n)*Sum_{j=0..n} ch([2,..,2], 1^(2n-2j) 2^j])*(-1)^j)*binomial(n,j), which calculates the coefficient of S_(2,...,2) in (((p_1)^2-p_2)/2)^n. But ((p_1)^2-p_2)/2 in n variables is the second elementary symmetric function which is the character of wedge^2 C^n and S_(2,...,2) is 1 on SL(n).
(End)
a(n) = number of noncrossing partitions (A000108) of [n] that contain no singletons, also number of nonnesting partitions (A000108) of [n] that contain no singletons. - David Callan, Aug 27 2014
From Tom Copeland, Nov 02 2014: (Start)
Let P(x) = x/(1+x) with comp. inverse Pinv(x) = x/(1-x) = -P[-x], and C(x)= [1-sqrt(1-4x)]/2, an o.g.f. for the shifted Catalan numbers A000108, with inverse Cinv(x) = x * (1-x).
Fin(x) = P[C(x)] = C(x)/[1 + C(x)] is an o.g.f. for the Fine numbers, A000957 with inverse Fin^(-1)(x) = Cinv[Pinv(x)] = Cinv[-P(-x)].
Mot(x) = C[P(x)] = C[-Pinv(-x)] gives an o.g.f. for shifted A005043, the Motzkin or Riordan numbers with comp. inverse Mot^(-1)(x) = Pinv[Cinv(x)] = (x - x^2) / (1 - x + x^2) (cf. A057078).
BTC(x) = C[Pinv(x)] gives A007317, a binomial transform of the Catalan numbers, with BTC^(-1)(x) = P[Cinv(x)].
Fib(x) = -Fin[Cinv(Cinv(-x))] = -P[Cinv(-x)] = x + 2 x^2 + 3 x^3 + 5 x^4 + ... = (x+x^2)/[1-x-x^2] is an o.g.f. for the shifted Fibonacci sequence A000045, so the comp. inverse is Fib^(-1)(x) = -C[Pinv(-x)] = -BTC(-x) and Fib(x) = -BTC^(-1)(-x).
Various relations among the o.g.f.s may be easily constructed, such as Fib[-Mot(-x)] = -P[P(-x)] = x/(1-2*x) a generating fct for 2^n.
Generalizing to P(x,t) = x /(1 + t*x) and Pinv(x,t) = x /(1 - t*x) = -P(-x,t) gives other relations to lattice paths, such as the o.g.f. for A091867, C[P[x,1-t]], and that for A104597, Pinv[Cinv(x),t+1]. (End)
Consistent with David Callan's comment above, A249548, provides a refinement of the Motzkin sums into the individual numbers for the non-crossing partitions he describes. - Tom Copeland, Nov 09 2014
The number of lattice paths from (0,0) to (n,0) that do not cross below the x-axis and use up-step=(1,1) and down-steps=(1,-k) where k is a positive integer. For example, a(4) = 3: [(1,1)(1,1)(1,-1)(1,-1)], [(1,1)(1,-1)(1,1)(1,-1)] and [(1,1)(1,1)(1,1)(1,-3)]. - Nicholas Ham, Aug 19 2015
A series created using 2*(a(n) + a(n+1)) + (a(n+1) + a(n+2)) has Hankel transform of F(2n), offset 3, F being a Fibonacci number, A001906 (Empirical observation). - Tony Foster III, Jul 30 2016
The series a(n) + A001006(n) has Hankel transform F(2n+1), offset n=1, F being the Fibonacci bisection A001519 (empirical observation). - Tony Foster III, Sep 05 2016
The Rubey and Stump reference proves a refinement of a conjecture of René Marczinzik, which they state as: "The number of 2-Gorenstein algebras which are Nakayama algebras with n simple modules and have an oriented line as associated quiver equals the number of Motzkin paths of length n. Moreover, the number of such algebras having the double centraliser property with respect to a minimal faithful projective-injective module equals the number of Riordan paths, that is, Motzkin paths without level-steps at height zero, of length n." - Eric M. Schmidt, Dec 16 2017
A connection to the Thue-Morse sequence: (-1)^a(n) = (-1)^A010060(n) * (-1)^A010060(n+1) = A106400(n) * A106400(n+1). - Vladimir Reshetnikov, Jul 21 2019
Named by Bernhart (1999) after the American mathematician John Riordan (1903-1988). - Amiram Eldar, Apr 15 2021

			a(5)=6 because the only dissections of a polygon with a total number of 6 edges are: five pentagons with one of the five diagonals and the hexagon with no diagonals.
G.f. = 1 + x^2 + x^3 + 3*x^4 + 6*x^5 + 15*x^6 + 36*x^7 + 91*x^8 + 232*x^9 + ...
From _Gus Wiseman_, Nov 15 2022: (Start)
The a(0) = 1 through a(6) = 15 lone-child-avoiding (no vertices of outdegree 1) ordered rooted trees with n + 1 vertices (ranked by A358376):
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                     ((oo)o)  ((oo)oo)  ((oo)ooo)
                     (o(oo))  ((ooo)o)  ((ooo)oo)
                              (o(oo)o)  ((oooo)o)
                              (o(ooo))  (o(oo)oo)
                              (oo(oo))  (o(ooo)o)
                                        (o(oooo))
                                        (oo(oo)o)
                                        (oo(ooo))
                                        (ooo(oo))
                                        (((oo)o)o)
                                        ((o(oo))o)
                                        ((oo)(oo))
                                        (o((oo)o))
                                        (o(o(oo)))
(End)

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Row sums of triangle A020474, first differences of A082395.
First diagonal of triangular array in A059346.
Binomial transform of A126930. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 26 2009
The Hankel transform of a(n+1) is A128834. The Hankel transform of a(n+2) is floor((2*n+4)/3) = A004523(n+2). - Paul Barry, Mar 08 2011
The Kn11 triangle sums of triangle A175136 lead to A005043(n+2), while the Kn12(n) = A005043(n+4)-2^(n+1), Kn13(n) = A005043(n+6)-(n^2+9*n+56)*2^(n-2) and the Kn4(n) = A005043(2*n+2) = A099251(n+1) triangle sums are related to the sequence given above. For the definitions of these triangle sums see A180662. - Johannes W. Meijer, May 06 2011
Cf. A187306 (self-convolution), A348210 (column 1).
Cf. A000045, A000108, A000957, A001006, A005717, A005773, A007317, A057078, A091867, A104597, A126120, A178514, A249548, A309303.
Bisections: A099251, A099252.

a005043 n = a005043_list !! n
a005043_list = 1 : 0 : zipWith div
   (zipWith (*) [1..] (zipWith (+)
       (map (* 2) $ tail a005043_list) (map (* 3) a005043_list))) [3..]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 31 2012

A005043 := proc(n) option remember; if n <= 1 then 1-n else (n-1)*(2*A005043(n-1)+3*A005043(n-2))/(n+1); fi; end;
Order := 20: solve(series((x-x^2)/(1-x+x^2),x)=y,x); # outputs g.f.

a[0]=1; a[1]=0; a[n_]:= a[n] = (n-1)*(2*a[n-1] + 3*a[n-2])/(n+1); Table[ a[n], {n, 0, 30}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jun 14 2005 *)
Table[(-3)^(1/2)/6 * (-1)^n*(3*Hypergeometric2F1[1/2,n+1,1,4/3]+ Hypergeometric2F1[1/2,n+2,1,4/3]), {n,0,32}] (* cf. Mark van Hoeij in A001006 *) (* Wouter Meeussen, Jan 23 2010 *)
RecurrenceTable[{a[0]==1,a[1]==0,a[n]==(n-1) (2a[n-1]+3a[n-2])/(n+1)},a,{n,30}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 27 2013 *)
a[ n_]:= SeriesCoefficient[2/(1+x +Sqrt[1-2x-3x^2]), {x, 0, n}]; (* Michael Somos, Aug 21 2014 *)
a[ n_]:= If[n<0, 0, 3^(n+3/2) Hypergeometric2F1[3/2, n+2, 2, 4]/I]; (* Michael Somos, Aug 21 2014 *)
Table[3^(n+3/2) CatalanNumber[n] (4(5+2n)Hypergeometric2F1[3/2, 3/2, 1/2-n, 1/4] -9 Hypergeometric2F1[3/2, 5/2, 1/2 -n, 1/4])/(4^(n+3) (n+1)), {n, 0, 31}] (* Vladimir Reshetnikov, Jul 21 2019 *)
Table[Sqrt[27]/8 (3/4)^n CatalanNumber[n] Hypergeometric2F1[1/2, 3/2, 1/2 - n, 1/4], {n, 0, 31}] (* Jan Mangaldan, Sep 12 2021 *)

a[0]:1$
a[1]:0$
a[n]:=(n-1)*(2*a[n-1]+3*a[n-2])/(n+1)$
makelist(a[n],n,0,12); /* Emanuele Munarini, Mar 02 2011 */

{a(n) = if( n<0, 0, n++; polcoeff( serreverse( (x - x^3) / (1 + x^3) + x * O(x^n)), n))}; /* Michael Somos, May 31 2005 */

my(N=66); Vec(serreverse(x/(1+x*sum(k=1,N,x^k))+O(x^N))) \\ Joerg Arndt, Aug 19 2012

from functools import cache
@cache
def A005043(n: int) -> int:
    if n <= 1: return 1 - n
    return (n - 1) * (2 * A005043(n - 1) + 3 * A005043(n - 2)) // (n + 1)
print([A005043(n) for n in range(32)]) # Peter Luschny, Nov 20 2022

A005043 = lambda n: (-1)^n*jacobi_P(n,1,-n-3/2,-7)/(n+1)
[simplify(A005043(n)) for n in (0..29)]
# Peter Luschny, Sep 23 2014

def ms():
    a, b, c, d, n = 0, 1, 1, -1, 1
    yield 1
    while True:
        yield -b + (-1)^n*d
        n += 1
        a, b = b, (3*(n-1)*n*a+(2*n-1)*n*b)/((n+1)*(n-1))
        c, d = d, (3*(n-1)*c-(2*n-1)*d)/n
A005043 = ms()
print([next(A005043) for  in range(32)]) # _Peter Luschny, May 16 2016

a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^(n-k)*binomial(n, k)*A000108(k). a(n) = (1/(n+1)) * Sum_{k=0..ceiling(n/2)} binomial(n+1, k)*binomial(n-k-1, k-1), for n > 1. - Len Smiley. [Comment from Amitai Regev (amitai.regev(AT)weizmann.ac.il), Mar 02 2010: the latter sum should be over the range k=1..floor(n/2).]
G.f.: (1 + x - sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2))/(2*x*(1+x)).
G.f.: 2/(1+x+sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2)). - Paul Peart (ppeart(AT)fac.howard.edu), May 27 2000
a(n+1) + (-1)^n = a(0)*a(n) + a(1)*a(n-1) + ... + a(n)*a(0). - Bernhart
a(n) = (1/(n+1)) * Sum_{i} (-1)^i*binomial(n+1, i)*binomial(2*n-2*i, n-i). - Bernhart
G.f. A(x) satisfies A = 1/(1+x) + x*A^2.
E.g.f.: exp(x)*(BesselI(0, 2*x) - BesselI(1, 2*x)). - Vladeta Jovovic, Apr 28 2003
a(n) = A001006(n-1) - a(n-1).
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^k*A026300(n, k), where A026300 is the Motzkin triangle.
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^k*binomial(n, k)*binomial(k, floor(k/2)). - Paul Barry, Jan 27 2005
a(n) = Sum_{k>=0} A086810(n-k, k). - Philippe Deléham, May 30 2005
a(n+2) = Sum_{k>=0} A064189(n-k, k). - Philippe Deléham, May 31 2005
Moment representation: a(n) = (1/(2*Pi))*Int(x^n*sqrt((1+x)(3-x))/(1+x),x,-1,3). - Paul Barry, Jul 09 2006
Inverse binomial transform of A000108 (Catalan numbers). - Philippe Deléham, Oct 20 2006
a(n) = (2/Pi)* Integral_{x=0..Pi} (4*cos(x)^2-1)^n*sin(x)^2 dx. - Andrew V. Sutherland, Dec 02 2007
G.f.: 1/(1-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Jan 22 2009
G.f.: 1/(1+x-x/(1-x/(1+x-x/(1-x/(1+x-x/(1-... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, May 16 2009
G.f.: 1/(1-x^2/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x^2/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x^2/(1-x/(1-... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Mar 02 2010
a(n) = -(-1)^n * hypergeom([1/2, n+2],[2],4/3) / sqrt(-3). - Mark van Hoeij, Jul 02 2010
a(n) = (-1)^n*hypergeometric([-n,1/2],[2],4). - Peter Luschny, Aug 15 2012
Let A(x) be the g.f., then x*A(x) is the reversion of x/(1 + x^2*Sum_{k>=0} x^k); see A215340 for the correspondence to Dyck paths without length-1 ascents. - Joerg Arndt, Aug 19 2012 and Apr 16 2013
a(n) ~ 3^(n+3/2)/(8*sqrt(Pi)*n^(3/2)). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Oct 02 2012
G.f.: 2/(1+x+1/G(0)), where G(k) = 1 + x*(2+3*x)*(4*k+1)/( 4*k+2 - x*(2+3*x)*(4*k+2)*(4*k+3)/(x*(2+3*x)*(4*k+3) + 4*(k+1)/G(k+1) )); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Jul 05 2013
D-finite (an alternative): (n+1)*a(n) = 3*(n-2)*a(n-3) + (5*n-7)*a(n-2) + (n-2)*a(n-1), n >= 3. - Fung Lam, Mar 22 2014
Asymptotics: a(n) = (3^(n+2)/(sqrt(3*n*Pi)*(8*n)))*(1-21/(16*n) + O(1/n^2)) (with contribution by Vaclav Kotesovec). - Fung Lam, Mar 22 2014
a(n) = T(2*n-1,n)/n, where T(n,k) = triangle of A180177. - Vladimir Kruchinin, Sep 23 2014
a(n) = (-1)^n*JacobiP(n,1,-n-3/2,-7)/(n+1). - Peter Luschny, Sep 23 2014
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} C(n,k)*(C(k,n-k)-C(k,n-k-1)). - Peter Luschny, Oct 01 2014
Conjecture: a(n) = A002426(n) - A005717(n), n > 0. - Mikhail Kurkov, Feb 24 2019 [The conjecture is true. - Amiram Eldar, May 17 2024]
a(n) = A309303(n) + A309303(n+1). - Vladimir Reshetnikov, Jul 22 2019
From Peter Bala, Feb 11 2022: (Start)
a(n) = A005773(n+1) - 2*A005717(n) for n >= 1.
Conjectures: for n >= 1, n divides a(2*n+1) and 2*n-1 divides a(2*n). (End)

Thanks to Laura L. M. Yang (yanglm(AT)hotmail.com) for a correction, Aug 29 2004

Name changed to Riordan numbers following a suggestion from Ira M. Gessel. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jul 24 2020

A039599 Triangle formed from even-numbered columns of triangle of expansions of powers of x in terms of Chebyshev polynomials U_n(x).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 5, 9, 5, 1, 14, 28, 20, 7, 1, 42, 90, 75, 35, 9, 1, 132, 297, 275, 154, 54, 11, 1, 429, 1001, 1001, 637, 273, 77, 13, 1, 1430, 3432, 3640, 2548, 1260, 440, 104, 15, 1, 4862, 11934, 13260, 9996, 5508, 2244, 663, 135, 17, 1

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

T(n,k) is the number of lattice paths from (0,0) to (n,n) with steps E = (1,0) and N = (0,1) which touch but do not cross the line x - y = k and only situated above this line; example: T(3,2) = 5 because we have EENNNE, EENNEN, EENENN, ENEENN, NEEENN. - Philippe Deléham, May 23 2005
The matrix inverse of this triangle is the triangular matrix T(n,k) = (-1)^(n+k)* A085478(n,k). - Philippe Deléham, May 26 2005
Essentially the same as A050155 except with a leading diagonal A000108 (Catalan numbers) 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, .... - Philippe Deléham, May 31 2005
Number of Grand Dyck paths of semilength n and having k downward returns to the x-axis. (A Grand Dyck path of semilength n is a path in the half-plane x>=0, starting at (0,0), ending at (2n,0) and consisting of steps u=(1,1) and d=(1,-1)). Example: T(3,2)=5 because we have u(d)uud(d),uud(d)u(d),u(d)u(d)du,u(d)duu(d) and duu(d)u(d) (the downward returns to the x-axis are shown between parentheses). - Emeric Deutsch, May 06 2006
Riordan array (c(x),x*c(x)^2) where c(x) is the g.f. of A000108; inverse array is (1/(1+x),x/(1+x)^2). - Philippe Deléham, Feb 12 2007
The triangle may also be generated from M^n*[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,...], where M is the infinite tridiagonal matrix with all 1's in the super and subdiagonals and [1,2,2,2,2,2,2,...] in the main diagonal. - Philippe Deléham, Feb 26 2007
Inverse binomial matrix applied to A124733. Binomial matrix applied to A089942. - Philippe Deléham, Feb 26 2007
Number of standard tableaux of shape (n+k,n-k). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 22 2007
From Philippe Deléham, Mar 30 2007: (Start)
This triangle belongs to the family of triangles defined by: T(0,0)=1, T(n,k)=0 if k<0 or if k>n, T(n,0)=x*T(n-1,0)+T(n-1,1), T(n,k)=T(n-1,k-1)+y*T(n-1,k)+T(n-1,k+1) for k>=1. Other triangles arise by choosing different values for (x,y):
(0,0) -> A053121; (0,1) -> A089942; (0,2) -> A126093; (0,3) -> A126970
(1,0) -> A061554; (1,1) -> A064189; (1,2) -> A039599; (1,3) -> A110877;
(1,4) -> A124576; (2,0) -> A126075; (2,1) -> A038622; (2,2) -> A039598;
(2,3) -> A124733; (2,4) -> A124575; (3,0) -> A126953; (3,1) -> A126954;
(3,2) -> A111418; (3,3) -> A091965; (3,4) -> A124574; (4,3) -> A126791;
(4,4) -> A052179; (4,5) -> A126331; (5,5) -> A125906. (End)
The table U(n,k) = Sum_{j=0..n} T(n,j)*k^j is given in A098474. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 29 2007
Sequence read mod 2 gives A127872. - Philippe Deléham, Apr 12 2007
Number of 2n step walks from (0,0) to (2n,2k) and consisting of step u=(1,1) and d=(1,-1) and the path stays in the nonnegative quadrant. Example: T(3,0)=5 because we have uuuddd, uududd, ududud, uduudd, uuddud; T(3,1)=9 because we have uuuudd, uuuddu, uuudud, ududuu, uuduud, uduudu, uudduu, uduuud, uududu; T(3,2)=5 because we have uuuuud, uuuudu, uuuduu, uuduuu, uduuuu; T(3,3)=1 because we have uuuuuu. - Philippe Deléham, Apr 16 2007, Apr 17 2007, Apr 18 2007
Triangular matrix, read by rows, equal to the matrix inverse of triangle A129818. - Philippe Deléham, Jun 19 2007
Let Sum_{n>=0} a(n)*x^n = (1+x)/(1-mx+x^2) = o.g.f. of A_m, then Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*a(k) = (m+2)^n. Related expansions of A_m are: A099493, A033999, A057078, A057077, A057079, A005408, A002878, A001834, A030221, A002315, A033890, A057080, A057081, A054320, A097783, A077416, A126866, A028230, A161591, for m=-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15, respectively. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 16 2009
The Kn11, Kn12, Fi1 and Fi2 triangle sums link the triangle given above with three sequences; see the crossrefs. For the definitions of these triangle sums, see A180662. - Johannes W. Meijer, Apr 20 2011
4^n = (n-th row terms) dot (first n+1 odd integer terms). Example: 4^4 = 256 = (14, 28, 20, 7, 1) dot (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) = (14 + 84 + 100 + 49 + 9) = 256. - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 13 2011
The linear system of n equations with coefficients defined by the first n rows solve for diagonal lengths of regular polygons with N= 2n+1 edges; the constants c^0, c^1, c^2, ... are on the right hand side, where c = 2 + 2*cos(2*Pi/N). Example: take the first 4 rows relating to the 9-gon (nonagon), N = 2*4 + 1; with c = 2 + 2*cos(2*Pi/9) = 3.5320888.... The equations are (1,0,0,0) = 1; (1,1,0,0) = c; (2,3,1,0) = c^2; (5,9,5,1) = c^3. The solutions are 1, 2.53208..., 2.87938..., and 1.87938...; the four distinct diagonal lengths of the 9-gon (nonagon) with edge = 1. (Cf. comment in A089942 which uses the analogous operations but with c = 1 + 2*cos(2*Pi/9).) - Gary W. Adamson, Sep 21 2011
Also called the Lobb numbers, after Andrew Lobb, are a natural generalization of the Catalan numbers, given by L(m,n)=(2m+1)*Binomial(2n,m+n)/(m+n+1), where n >= m >= 0. For m=0, we get the n-th Catalan number. See added reference. - Jayanta Basu, Apr 30 2013
From Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 20 2013: (Start)
T(n, k) = A053121(2*n, 2*k). T(n, k) appears in the formula for the (2*n)-th power of the algebraic number rho(N):= 2*cos(Pi/N) = R(N, 2) in terms of the odd-indexed diagonal/side length ratios R(N, 2*k+1) = S(2*k, rho(N)) in the regular N-gon inscribed in the unit circle (length unit 1). S(n, x) are Chebyshev's S polynomials (see A049310):
  rho(N)^(2*n) = Sum_{k=0..n} T(n, k)*R(N, 2*k+1), n >= 0, identical in N > = 1. For a proof see the Sep 21 2013 comment under A053121. Note that this is the unreduced version if R(N, j) with j > delta(N), the degree of the algebraic number rho(N) (see A055034), appears.
  For the odd powers of rho(n) see A039598. (End)
Unsigned coefficients of polynomial numerators of Eqn. 2.1 of the Chakravarty and Kodama paper, defining the polynomials of A067311. - Tom Copeland, May 26 2016
The triangle is the Riordan square of the Catalan numbers in the sense of A321620. - Peter Luschny, Feb 14 2023

			Triangle T(n, k) begins:
  n\k     0     1     2     3     4     5    6   7   8  9
  0:      1
  1:      1     1
  2:      2     3     1
  3:      5     9     5     1
  4:     14    28    20     7     1
  5:     42    90    75    35     9     1
  6:    132   297   275   154    54    11    1
  7:    429  1001  1001   637   273    77   13   1
  8:   1430  3432  3640  2548  1260   440  104  15   1
  9:   4862 11934 13260  9996  5508  2244  663 135  17  1
  ... Reformatted by _Wolfdieter Lang_, Dec 21 2015
From _Paul Barry_, Feb 17 2011: (Start)
Production matrix begins
  1, 1,
  1, 2, 1,
  0, 1, 2, 1,
  0, 0, 1, 2, 1,
  0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1,
  0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1,
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1 (End)
From _Wolfdieter Lang_, Sep 20 2013: (Start)
Example for rho(N) = 2*cos(Pi/N) powers:
n=2: rho(N)^4 = 2*R(N,1) + 3*R(N,3) + 1*R(N, 5) =
  2 + 3*S(2, rho(N)) + 1*S(4, rho(N)), identical in N >= 1. For N=4 (the square with only one distinct diagonal), the degree delta(4) = 2, hence R(4, 3) and R(4, 5) can be reduced, namely to R(4, 1) = 1 and R(4, 5) = -R(4,1) = -1, respectively. Therefore, rho(4)^4 =(2*cos(Pi/4))^4 = 2 + 3 -1 = 4. (End)

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Columns give: A000108, A000245, A000344, A000588, A001392, A000589, A000590, A000012, A005408, A014107(n>1).
Row sums: A000984.
Triangle sums (see the comments): A000958 (Kn11), A001558 (Kn12), A088218 (Fi1, Fi2).
Cf. A008313, A039598, A084938, A000007, A067311, A321620.

/* As triangle */ [[Binomial(2*n, k+n)*(2*k+1)/(k+n+1): k in [0..n]]: n in [0.. 15]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Oct 16 2015

T:=(n,k)->(2*k+1)*binomial(2*n,n-k)/(n+k+1): for n from 0 to 12 do seq(T(n,k),k=0..n) od; # yields sequence in triangular form # Emeric Deutsch, May 06 2006
T := proc(n, k) option remember; if k = n then 1 elif k > n then 0 elif k = 0 then T(n-1, 0) + T(n-1,1) else T(n-1, k-1) + 2*T(n-1, k) + T(n-1, k+1) fi end:
seq(seq(T(n, k), k = 0..n), n = 0..9) od; # Peter Luschny, Feb 14 2023

Table[Abs[Differences[Table[Binomial[2 n, n + i], {i, 0, n + 1}]]], {n, 0,7}] // Flatten (* Geoffrey Critzer, Dec 18 2011 *)
Join[{1},Flatten[Table[Binomial[2n-1,n-k]-Binomial[2n-1,n-k-2],{n,10},{k,0,n}]]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 18 2011 *)
Flatten[Table[Binomial[2*n,m+n]*(2*m+1)/(m+n+1),{n,0,9},{m,0,n}]] (* Jayanta Basu, Apr 30 2013 *)

a(n, k) = (2*n+1)/(n+k+1)*binomial(2*k, n+k)
trianglerows(n) = for(x=0, n-1, for(y=0, x, print1(a(y, x), ", ")); print(""))
trianglerows(10) \\ Felix Fröhlich, Jun 24 2016

# Algorithm of L. Seidel (1877)
# Prints the first n rows of the triangle
def A039599_triangle(n) :
    D = [0]*(n+2); D[1] = 1
    b = True ; h = 1
    for i in range(2*n-1) :
        if b :
            for k in range(h,0,-1) : D[k] += D[k-1]
            h += 1
        else :
            for k in range(1,h, 1) : D[k] += D[k+1]
        if b : print([D[z] for z in (1..h-1)])
        b = not b
A039599_triangle(10)  # Peter Luschny, May 01 2012

T(n,k) = C(2*n-1, n-k) - C(2*n-1, n-k-2), n >= 1, T(0,0) = 1.
From Emeric Deutsch, May 06 2006: (Start)
T(n,k) = (2*k+1)*binomial(2*n,n-k)/(n+k+1).
G.f.: G(t,z)=1/(1-(1+t)*z*C), where C=(1-sqrt(1-4*z))/(2*z) is the Catalan function. (End)
The following formulas were added by Philippe Deléham during 2003 to 2009: (Start)
Triangle T(n, k) read by rows; given by A000012 DELTA A000007, where DELTA is Deléham's operator defined in A084938.
T(n, k) = C(2*n, n-k)*(2*k+1)/(n+k+1). Sum(k>=0; T(n, k)*T(m, k) = A000108(n+m)); A000108: numbers of Catalan.
T(n, 0) = A000108(n); T(n, k) = 0 if k>n; for k>0, T(n, k) = Sum_{j=1..n} T(n-j, k-1)*A000108(j).
T(n, k) = A009766(n+k, n-k) = A033184(n+k+1, 2k+1).
G.f. for column k: Sum_{n>=0} T(n, k)*x^n = x^k*C(x)^(2*k+1) where C(x) = Sum_{n>=0} A000108(n)*x^n is g.f. for Catalan numbers, A000108.
T(0, 0) = 1, T(n, k) = 0 if n<0 or n=1, T(n, k) = T(n-1, k-1) + 2*T(n-1, k) + T(n-1, k+1).
a(n) + a(n+1) = 1 + A000108(m+1) if n = m*(m+3)/2; a(n) + a(n+1) = A039598(n) otherwise.
T(n, k) = A050165(n, n-k).
Sum_{j>=0} T(n-k, j)*A039598(k, j) = A028364(n, k).
Matrix inverse of the triangle T(n, k) = (-1)^(n+k)*binomial(n+k, 2*k) = (-1)^(n+k)*A085478(n, k).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n, k)*x^k = A000108(n), A000984(n), A007854(n), A076035(n), A076036(n) for x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Sum_{k=0..n} (2*k+1)*T(n, k) = 4^n.
T(n, k)*(-2)^(n-k) = A114193(n, k).
Sum_{k>=h} T(n,k) = binomial(2n,n-h).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*5^k = A127628(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*7^k = A115970(n).
T(n,k) = Sum_{j=0..n-k} A106566(n+k,2*k+j).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*6^k = A126694(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A000108(k) = A007852(n+1).
Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} T(n-k,k) = A000958(n+1).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(-1)^k = A000007(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(-2)^k = (-1)^n*A064310(n).
T(2*n,n) = A126596(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(-x)^k = A000007(n), A126983(n), A126984(n), A126982(n), A126986(n), A126987(n), A127017(n), A127016(n), A126985(n), A127053(n) for x=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 respectively.
Sum_{j>=0} T(n,j)*binomial(j,k) = A116395(n,k).
T(n,k) = Sum_{j>=0} A106566(n,j)*binomial(j,k).
T(n,k) = Sum_{j>=0} A127543(n,j)*A038207(j,k).
Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} T(n-k,k)*A000108(k) = A101490(n+1).
T(n,k) = A053121(2*n,2*k).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*sin((2*k+1)*x) = sin(x)*(2*cos(x))^(2*n).
T(n,n-k) = Sum_{j>=0} (-1)^(n-j)*A094385(n,j)*binomial(j,k).
Sum_{j>=0} A110506(n,j)*binomial(j,k) = Sum_{j>=0} A110510(n,j)*A038207(j,k) = T(n,k)*2^(n-k).
Sum_{j>=0} A110518(n,j)*A027465(j,k) = Sum_{j>=0} A110519(n,j)*A038207(j,k) = T(n,k)*3^(n-k).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A001045(k) = A049027(n), for n>=1.
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*a(k) = (m+2)^n if Sum_{k>=0} a(k)*x^k = (1+x)/(x^2-m*x+1).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A040000(k) = A001700(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A122553(k) = A051924(n+1).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A123932(k) = A051944(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*k^2 = A000531(n), for n>=1.
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A000217(k) = A002457(n-1), for n>=1.
Sum{j>=0} binomial(n,j)*T(j,k)= A124733(n,k).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*x^(n-k) = A000012(n), A000984(n), A089022(n), A035610(n), A130976(n), A130977(n), A130978(n), A130979(n), A130980(n), A131521(n) for x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 respectively.
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A005043(k) = A127632(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A132262(k) = A089022(n).
T(n,k) + T(n,k+1) = A039598(n,k).
T(n,k) = A128899(n,k)+A128899(n,k+1).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A015518(k) = A076025(n), for n>=1. Also Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A015521(k) = A076026(n), for n>=1.
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(-1)^k*x^(n-k) = A033999(n), A000007(n), A064062(n), A110520(n), A132863(n), A132864(n), A132865(n), A132866(n), A132867(n), A132869(n), A132897(n) for x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 respectively.
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(-1)^(k+1)*A000045(k) = A109262(n), A000045:= Fibonacci numbers.
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A000035(k)*A016116(k) = A143464(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A016116(k) = A101850(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A010684(k) = A100320(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A000034(k) = A029651(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A010686(k) = A144706(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A006130(k-1) = A143646(n), with A006130(-1)=0.
T(n,2*k)+T(n,2*k+1) = A118919(n,k).
Sum_{k=0..j} T(n,k) = A050157(n,j).
Sum_{k=0..2} T(n,k) = A026012(n); Sum_{k=0..3} T(n,k)=A026029(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A000045(k+2) = A026671(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A000045(k+1) = A026726(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A057078(k) = A000012(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A108411(k) = A155084(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A057077(k) = 2^n = A000079(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A057079(k) = 3^n = A000244(n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(-1)^k*A011782(k) = A000957(n+1).
(End)
T(n,k) = Sum_{j=0..k} binomial(k+j,2j)*(-1)^(k-j)*A000108(n+j). - Paul Barry, Feb 17 2011
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A071679(k+1) = A026674(n+1). - Philippe Deléham, Feb 01 2014
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(2*k+1)^2 = (4*n+1)*binomial(2*n,n). - Werner Schulte, Jul 22 2015
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(2*k+1)^3 = (6*n+1)*4^n. - Werner Schulte, Jul 22 2015
Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^k*T(n,k)*(2*k+1)^(2*m) = 0 for 0 <= m < n (see also A160562). - Werner Schulte, Dec 03 2015
T(n,k) = GegenbauerC(n-k,-n+1,-1) - GegenbauerC(n-k-1,-n+1,-1). - Peter Luschny, May 13 2016
T(n,n-2) = A014107(n). - R. J. Mathar, Jan 30 2019
T(n,n-3) = n*(2*n-1)*(2*n-5)/3. - R. J. Mathar, Jan 30 2019
T(n,n-4) = n*(n-1)*(2*n-1)*(2*n-7)/6. - R. J. Mathar, Jan 30 2019
T(n,n-5) = n*(n-1)*(2*n-1)*(2*n-3)*(2*n-9)/30. - R. J. Mathar, Jan 30 2019

Corrected by Philippe Deléham, Nov 26 2009, Dec 14 2009

A053121 Catalan triangle (with 0's) read by rows.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 5, 0, 4, 0, 1, 5, 0, 9, 0, 5, 0, 1, 0, 14, 0, 14, 0, 6, 0, 1, 14, 0, 28, 0, 20, 0, 7, 0, 1, 0, 42, 0, 48, 0, 27, 0, 8, 0, 1, 42, 0, 90, 0, 75, 0, 35, 0, 9, 0, 1, 0, 132, 0, 165, 0, 110, 0, 44, 0, 10, 0, 1, 132, 0, 297, 0, 275, 0, 154, 0, 54, 0, 11, 0

Offset: 0

Wolfdieter Lang

Inverse lower triangular matrix of A049310(n,m) (coefficients of Chebyshev's S polynomials).
Walks with a wall: triangle of number of n-step walks from (0,0) to (n,m) where each step goes from (a,b) to (a+1,b+1) or (a+1,b-1) and the path stays in the nonnegative quadrant.
T(n,m) is the number of left factors of Dyck paths of length n ending at height m. Example: T(4,2)=3 because we have UDUU, UUDU, and UUUD, where U=(1,1) and D=(1,-1). (This is basically a different formulation of the previous - walks with a wall - property.) - Emeric Deutsch, Jun 16 2011
"The Catalan triangle is formed in the same manner as Pascal's triangle, except that no number may appear on the left of the vertical bar." [Conway and Smith]
G.f. for row polynomials p(n,x) := Sum_{m=0..n} (a(n,m)*x^m): c(z^2)/(1-x*z*c(z^2)). Row sums (x=1): A001405 (central binomial).
In the language of the Shapiro et al. reference such a lower triangular (ordinary) convolution array, considered as a matrix, belongs to the Bell-subgroup of the Riordan-group. The g.f. Ginv(x) of the m=0 column of the inverse of a given Bell-matrix (here A049310) is obtained from its g.f. of the m=0 column (here G(x)=1/(1+x^2)) by Ginv(x)=(f^{(-1)}(x))/x, with f(x) := x*G(x) and f^{(-1)}is the compositional inverse function of f (here one finds, with Ginv(0)=1, c(x^2)). See the Shapiro et al. reference.
Number of involutions of {1,2,...,n} that avoid the patterns 132 and have exactly k fixed points. Example: T(4,2)=3 because we have 2134, 4231 and 3214. Number of involutions of {1,2,...,n} that avoid the patterns 321 and have exactly k fixed points. Example: T(4,2)=3 because we have 1243, 1324 and 2134. Number of involutions of {1,2,...,n} that avoid the patterns 213 and have exactly k fixed points. Example: T(4,2)=3 because we have 1243, 1432 and 4231. - Emeric Deutsch, Oct 12 2006
This triangle belongs to the family of triangles defined by: T(0,0)=1, T(n,k)=0 if k<0 or if k>n, T(n,0)=x*T(n-1,0)+T(n-1,1), T(n,k)=T(n-1,k-1)+y*T(n-1,k)+T(n-1,k+1) for k>=1 . Other triangles arise by choosing different values for (x,y): (0,0) -> A053121; (0,1) -> A089942; (0,2) -> A126093; (0,3) -> A126970; (1,0) -> A061554; (1,1) -> A064189; (1,2) -> A039599; (1,3) -> A110877; (1,4) -> A124576; (2,0) -> A126075; (2,1) -> A038622; (2,2) -> A039598; (2,3) -> A124733; (2,4) -> A124575; (3,0) -> A126953; (3,1) -> A126954; (3,2) -> A111418; (3,3) -> A091965; (3,4) -> A124574; (4,3) -> A126791; (4,4) -> A052179; (4,5) -> A126331; (5,5) -> A125906. - Philippe Deléham, Sep 25 2007
Riordan array (c(x^2),xc(x^2)), where c(x) is the g.f. of Catalan numbers A000108. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 25 2007
A053121^2 = triangle A145973. Convolved with A001405 = triangle A153585. - Gary W. Adamson, Dec 28 2008
By columns without the zeros, n-th row = A000108 convolved with itself n times; equivalent to A = (1 + x + 2x^2 + 5x^3 + 14x^4 + ...), then n-th row = coefficients of A^(n+1). - Gary W. Adamson, May 13 2009
Triangle read by rows,product of A130595 and A064189 considered as infinite lower triangular arrays; A053121 = A130595*A064189 = B^(-1)*A097609*B where B = A007318. - Philippe Deléham, Dec 07 2009
From Mark Dols, Aug 17 2010: (Start)
As an upper right triangle, rows represent powers of 5-sqrt(24):
  5 - sqrt(24)^1 = 0.101020514...
  5 - sqrt(24)^2 = 0.010205144...
  5 - sqrt(24)^3 = 0.001030928...
(Divided by sqrt(96) these powers give a decimal representation of the columns of A007318, with 1/sqrt(96) being the middle column.) (End)
T(n,k) is the number of dispersed Dyck paths of length n (i.e., Motzkin paths of length n with no (1,0) steps at positive heights) having k (1,0)-steps. Example: T(5,3)=4 because, denoting U=(1,1), D=(1,-1), H=(1,0), we have HHHUD, HHUDH, HUDHH, and UDHHH. - Emeric Deutsch, Jun 01 2011
Let S(N,x) denote the N-th Chebyshev S-polynomial in x (see A049310, cf. [W. Lang]). Then x^n = sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*S(k,x). - L. Edson Jeffery, Sep 06 2012
This triangle a(n,m) appears also in the (unreduced) formula for the powers rho(N)^n for the algebraic number over the rationals rho(N) = 2*cos(Pi/N) = R(N, 2), the smallest diagonal/side ratio R in the regular N-gon:
  rho(N)^n = sum(a(n,m)*R(N,m+1),m=0..n), n>=0, identical in N >= 1. R(N,j) = S(j-1, x=rho(N)) (Chebyshev S (A049310)). See a comment on this under A039599 (even powers) and A039598 (odd powers). Proof: see the Sep 06 2012 comment by L. Edson Jeffery, which follows from T(n,k) (called here a(n,k)) being the inverse of the Riordan triangle A049310. - Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 21 2013
The so-called A-sequence for this Riordan triangle of the Bell type (c(x^2), x*c(x^2)) (see comments above) is A(x) = 1 + x^2. This proves the recurrence given in the formula section by Henry Bottomley for a(n, m) = a(n-1, m-1) + a(n-1, m+1) for n>=1 and m>=1, with inputs. The Z-sequence for this Riordan triangle is Z(x) = x which proves the recurrence a(n,0) = a(n-1,1), n>=1, a(0,0) = 1. For A- and Z-sequences for Riordan triangles see the W. Lang link under A006232. - Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 22 2013
Rows of the triangle describe decompositions of tensor powers of the standard (2-dimensional) representation of the Lie algebra sl(2) into irreducibles. Thus a(n,m) is the multiplicity of the m-th ((m+1)-dimensional) irreducible representation in the n-th tensor power of the standard one. - Mamuka Jibladze, May 26 2015
The Riordan row polynomials p(n, x) belong to the Boas-Buck class (see a comment and references in A046521), hence they satisfy the Boas-Buck identity: (E_x - n*1)*p(n, x) = (E_x + 1)*Sum_{j=0..n-1} (1/2)*(1 - (-1)^j)*binomial(j+1, (j+1)/2)*p(n-1-j, x), for n >= 0, where E_x = x*d/dx (Euler operator). For the triangle a(n, m) this entails a recurrence for the sequence of column m, given in the formula section. - Wolfdieter Lang, Aug 11 2017
From Roger Ford, Jan 22 2018: (Start)
For row n, the nonzero values represent the odd components (loops) formed by n+1 nonintersecting arches above and below the x-axis with the following constraints:  The top has floor((n+3)/2) starting arches at position 1 and the next consecutive odd positions. All other starting top arches are in even positions. The bottom arches are a rainbow of arches.  If the component=1 then the arch configuration is a semimeander solution.
Examples: For row 3 {0, 2, 0, 1} there are 3 arch configurations: 2 arch configurations have a component=1; 1 has a component=3.  c=components, U=top arch starting in odd position, u=top arch starting in an even position, d=ending top arch:
.
  top UuUdUddd c=3   top UdUuUddd c=1     top UdUdUudd c=1
       /\                    /\
      //\\                  /  \
     //  \\                / /\ \                    /\
    //    \\              / /  \ \                  /  \
   ///\  /\\\        /\  / / /\ \ \        /\  /\  / /\ \
   \\\ \/ ///        \ \ \ \/ / / /        \ \ \ \/ / / /
    \\\  ///          \ \ \  / / /          \ \ \  / / /
     \\\///            \ \ \/ / /            \ \ \/ / /
      \\//              \ \  / /              \ \  / /
       \/                \ \/ /                \ \/ /
                          \  /                  \  /
                           \/                    \/
For row 4 {2, 0, 3, 0, 1} there are 6 arch configurations: 2 have a component=1; 3 have a component=3: 1 has a component=1. (End)

			Triangle a(n,m) begins:
  n\m  0   1   2   3   4   5   6  7  8  9 10 ...
  0:   1
  1:   0   1
  2:   1   0   1
  3:   0   2   0   1
  4:   2   0   3   0   1
  5:   0   5   0   4   0   1
  6:   5   0   9   0   5   0   1
  7:   0  14   0  14   0   6   0  1
  8:  14   0  28   0  20   0   7  0  1
  9:   0  42   0  48   0  27   0  8  0  1
  10: 42   0  90   0  75   0  35  0  9  0  1
  ... (Reformatted by _Wolfdieter Lang_, Sep 20 2013)
E.g., the fourth row corresponds to the polynomial p(3,x)= 2*x + x^3.
From _Paul Barry_, May 29 2009: (Start)
Production matrix is
  0, 1,
  1, 0, 1,
  0, 1, 0, 1,
  0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
  0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
  0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1 (End)
Boas-Buck recurrence for column k = 2, n = 6: a(6, 2) = (3/4)*(0 + 2*a(4 ,2) + 0 + 6*a(2, 2)) = (3/4)*(2*3 + 6) = 9. - _Wolfdieter Lang_, Aug 11 2017

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Index entries for sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials.

Cf. A008315, A049310, A000108, A001405 (row sums), A145973, A153585, A108786, A037952. Another version: A008313. A039598 and A039599 without zeros, and odd and even numbered rows.

Variant without zero-diagonals: A033184 and with rows reversed: A009766.

a053121 n k = a053121_tabl !! n !! k
a053121_row n = a053121_tabl !! n
a053121_tabl = iterate
   (\row -> zipWith (+) ([0] ++ row) (tail row ++ [0,0])) [1]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 24 2012

T:=proc(n,k): if n+k mod 2 = 0 then (k+1)*binomial(n+1,(n-k)/2)/(n+1) else 0 fi end: for n from 0 to 13 do seq(T(n,k),k=0..n) od; # yields sequence in triangular form; Emeric Deutsch, Oct 12 2006
F:=proc(l,p) if ((l-p) mod 2) = 1 then 0 else (p+1)*l!/( ( (l-p)/2 )! * ( (l+p)/2 +1)! ); fi; end;
r:=n->[seq( F(n,p),p=0..n)]; [seq(r(n),n=0..15)]; # N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 29 2011
A053121 := proc(n,k) option remember; `if`(k>n or k<0,0,`if`(n=k,1,
procname(n-1,k-1)+procname(n-1,k+1))) end proc:
seq(print(seq(A053121(n,k), k=0..n)),n=0..12); # Peter Luschny, May 01 2011

a[n_, m_] /; n < m || OddQ[n-m] = 0; a[n_, m_] = (m+1) Binomial[n+1, (n-m)/2]/(n+1); Flatten[Table[a[n, m], {n, 0, 12}, {m, 0, n}]] [[1 ;; 90]] (* Jean-François Alcover, May 18 2011 *)
T[0, 0] := 1; T[n_, k_]/;0<=k<=n := T[n, k] = T[n-1, k-1]+T[n-1, k+1]; T[n_, k_] := 0; Flatten@Table[T[n, k], {n, 0, 12}, {k, 0, n}] (* Oliver Seipel, Dec 31 2024 *)

T(n, m)=if(nCharles R Greathouse IV, Mar 09 2016

def A053121_triangle(dim):
    M = matrix(ZZ,dim,dim)
    for n in (0..dim-1): M[n,n] = 1
    for n in (1..dim-1):
        for k in (0..n-1):
            M[n,k] = M[n-1,k-1] + M[n-1,k+1]
    return M
A053121_triangle(13) # Peter Luschny, Sep 19 2012

a(n, m) := 0 if n

a(n, m) = (4*(n-1)*a(n-2, m) + 2*(m+1)*a(n-1, m-1))/(n+m+2), a(n, m)=0 if n

G.f. for m-th column: c(x^2)*(x*c(x^2))^m, where c(x) = g.f. for Catalan numbers A000108.

G.f.: G(t,z) = c(z^2)/(1 - t*z*c(z^2)), where c(z) = (1 - sqrt(1-4*z))/(2*z) is the g.f. for the Catalan numbers (A000108). - Emeric Deutsch, Jun 16 2011

a(n, m) = a(n-1, m-1) + a(n-1, m+1) if n > 0 and m >= 0, a(0, 0)=1, a(0, m)=0 if m > 0, a(n, m)=0 if m < 0. - Henry Bottomley, Jan 25 2001

Sum_{k>=0} T(m,k)^2 = A000108(m). - Paul D. Hanna, Apr 23 2005

Sum_{k>=0} T(m, k)*T(n, k) = 0 if m+n is odd; Sum_{k>=0} T(m, k)*T(n, k) = A000108((m+n)/2) if m+n is even. - Philippe Deléham, May 26 2005

T(n,k)=sum{i=0..n, (-1)^(n-i)*C(n,i)*sum{j=0..i, C(i,j)*(C(i-j,j+k)-C(i-j,j+k+2))}}; Column k has e.g.f. BesselI(k,2x)-BesselI(k+2,2x). - Paul Barry, Feb 16 2006

Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(k+1) = 2^n. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 22 2007

Sum_{j>=0} T(n,j)*binomial(j,k) = A054336(n,k). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 30 2007

T(2*n+1,2*k+1) = A039598(n,k), T(2*n,2*k) = A039599(n,k). - Philippe Deléham, Apr 16 2007

Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)^x = A000027(n+1), A001405(n), A000108(n), A003161(n), A129123(n) for x = 0,1,2,3,4 respectively. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 22 2009

Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*x^k = A126930(n), A126120(n), A001405(n), A054341(n), A126931(n) for x = -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 respectively. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 28 2009

Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A000045(k+1) = A098615(n). - Philippe Deléham, Feb 03 2012

Recurrence for row polynomials C(n, x) := Sum_{m=0..n} a(n, m)*x^m = x*Sum_{k=0..n} Chat(k)*C(n-1-k, x), n >= 0, with C(-1, 1/x) = 1/x and Chat(k) = A000108(k/2) if n is even and 0 otherwise. From the o.g.f. of the row polynomials: G(z; x) := Sum_{n >= 0} C(n, x)*z^n = c(z^2)*(1 + x*z*G(z, x)), with the o.g.f. c of A000108. - Ahmet Zahid KÜÇÜK and Wolfdieter Lang, Aug 23 2015

The Boas-Buck recurrence (see a comment above) for the sequence of column m is: a(n, m) = ((m+1)/(n-m))*Sum_{j=0..n-1-m} (1/2)*(1 - (-1)^j)*binomial(j+1, (j+1)/2)* a(n-1-j, k), for n > m >= 0 and input a(m, m) = 1. - Wolfdieter Lang, Aug 11 2017

Sum_{m=1..n} a(n,m) = A037952(n). - R. J. Mathar, Sep 23 2021

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 29 2011

A005773 Number of directed animals of size n (or directed n-ominoes in standard position).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 2, 5, 13, 35, 96, 267, 750, 2123, 6046, 17303, 49721, 143365, 414584, 1201917, 3492117, 10165779, 29643870, 86574831, 253188111, 741365049, 2173243128, 6377181825, 18730782252, 55062586341, 161995031226, 476941691177, 1405155255055, 4142457992363

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe, Clark Kimberling

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

			G.f. = 1 + x + 2*x^2 + 5*x^3 + 13*x^4 + 35*x^5 + 96*x^6 + 267*x^7 + ...
a(3) = 5, a(4) = 13; since the top row of M^3 = (5, 5, 2, 1, ...)
From _Eric Rowland_, Sep 25 2021: (Start)
There are a(4) = 13 directed animals of size 4:
  O
  O    O    O    OO              O         O
  O    O    OO   O    OO   O    OO   OOO   O    O    OO    O
  O    OO   O    O    OO   OOO  O    O    OO   OOO  OO   OOO  OOOO
(End)
From _Joerg Arndt_, Nov 10 2012: (Start)
There are a(4)=13 smooth factorial numbers of length 4 (dots for zeros):
[ 1]   [ . . . . ]
[ 2]   [ . . . 1 ]
[ 3]   [ . . 1 . ]
[ 4]   [ . . 1 1 ]
[ 5]   [ . . 1 2 ]
[ 6]   [ . 1 . . ]
[ 7]   [ . 1 . 1 ]
[ 8]   [ . 1 1 . ]
[ 9]   [ . 1 1 1 ]
[10]   [ . 1 1 2 ]
[11]   [ . 1 2 1 ]
[12]   [ . 1 2 2 ]
[13]   [ . 1 2 3 ]
(End)
From _Joerg Arndt_, Nov 22 2012: (Start)
There are a(4)=13 base 3 4-digit numbers (not starting with 0) with digit sum 4:
[ 1]   [ 2 2 . . ]
[ 2]   [ 2 1 1 . ]
[ 3]   [ 1 2 1 . ]
[ 4]   [ 2 . 2 . ]
[ 5]   [ 1 1 2 . ]
[ 6]   [ 2 1 . 1 ]
[ 7]   [ 1 2 . 1 ]
[ 8]   [ 2 . 1 1 ]
[ 9]   [ 1 1 1 1 ]
[10]   [ 1 . 2 1 ]
[11]   [ 2 . . 2 ]
[12]   [ 1 1 . 2 ]
[13]   [ 1 . 1 2 ]
(End)

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See also A005775. Inverse of A001006. Also sum of numbers in row n+1 of array T in A026300. Leading column of array in A038622.
The right edge of the triangle A062105.
Column k=3 of A295679.
Interpolates between Motzkin numbers (A001006) and Catalan numbers (A000108). Cf. A054391, A054392, A054393, A055898.
Except for the first term a(0), sequence is the binomial transform of A001405.
a(n) = A002426(n-1) + A005717(n-1) if n > 0. - Emeric Deutsch, Aug 14 2002
Cf. A001405, A001700, A132814, A245455.
Cf. A005043, A005717, A057682, A064189, A091867.

a005773 n = a005773_list !! n
a005773_list = 1 : f a001006_list [] where
   f (x:xs) ys = y : f xs (y : ys) where
     y = x + sum (zipWith (*) a001006_list ys)
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 30 2012

R:=PowerSeriesRing(Rationals(), 30); Coefficients(R!( 2*x/(3*x-1+Sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2)) )); // G. C. Greubel, Apr 05 2019

seq( sum(binomial(i-1, k)*binomial(i-k, k), k=0..floor(i/2)), i=0..30 ); # Detlef Pauly (dettodet(AT)yahoo.de), Nov 09 2001
A005773:=proc(n::integer)
local i, j, A, istart, iend, KartProd, Liste, Term, delta;
    A:=0;
    for i from 0 to n do
        Liste[i]:=NULL;
        istart[i]:=0;
        iend[i]:=n-i+1:
        for j from istart[i] to iend[i] do
            Liste[i]:=Liste[i], j;
        end do;
        Liste[i]:=[Liste[i]]:
    end do;
    KartProd:=cartprod([seq(Liste[i], i=1..n)]);
    while not KartProd[finished] do
        Term:=KartProd[nextvalue]();
        delta:=1;
        for i from 1 to n-1 do
            if (op(i, Term) - op(i+1, Term))^2 >= 2 then
                delta:=0;
                break;
            end if;
        end do;
        A:=A+delta;
    end do;
end proc; # Thomas Wieder, Feb 22 2009:
# n -> [a(0),a(1),..,a(n)]
A005773_list := proc(n) local W, m, j, i;
W := proc(i, j, n) option remember;
if min(i, j, n) < 0 or max(i, j) > n then 0
elif n = 0 then if i = 0 and j = 0 then 1 else 0 fi
else W(i-1,j,n-1)+W(i,j-1,n-1)+W(i+1,j-1,n-1) fi end:
[1,seq(add(add(W(i,j,m),i=0..m),j=0..m),m=0..n-1)] end:
A005773_list(27); # Peter Luschny, May 21 2011
A005773 := proc(n)
    option remember;
    if n <= 1 then
        1 ;
    else
        2*n*procname(n-1)+3*(n-2)*procname(n-2) ;
        %/n ;
    end if;
end proc:
seq(A005773(n),n=0..10) ; # R. J. Mathar, Jul 25 2017

CoefficientList[Series[(2x)/(3x-1+Sqrt[1-2x-3x^2]), {x,0,40}], x] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 03 2011 *)
a[0]=1; a[n_] := Sum[k/n*Sum[Binomial[n, j]*Binomial[j, 2*j-n-k], {j, 0, n}], {k, 1, n}]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 40}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 31 2015, after Vladimir Kruchinin *)
A005773[n_] := 2 (-1)^(n+1) JacobiP[n - 1, 3, -n -1/2, -7] / (n^2 + n); A005773[0] := 1; Table[A005773[n], {n, 0, 27}] (* Peter Luschny, May 25 2021 *)

a(n)=if(n<2,n>=0,(2*n*a(n-1)+3*(n-2)*a(n-2))/n)

for(n=0, 27, print1(if(n==0, 1, sum(k=0, n-1, (-1)^(n - 1 + k)*binomial(n - 1, k)*binomial(2*k + 1, k + 1))),", ")) \\ Indranil Ghosh, Mar 14 2017

Vec(1/(1-serreverse(x*(1-x)/(1-x^3) + O(x*x^25)))) \\ Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2017

def da():
    a, b, c, d, n = 0, 1, 1, -1, 1
    yield 1
    yield 1
    while True:
        yield b + (-1)^n*d
        n += 1
        a, b = b, (3*(n-1)*n*a+(2*n-1)*n*b)//((n+1)*(n-1))
        c, d = d, (3*(n-1)*c-(2*n-1)*d)//n
A005773 = da()
print([next(A005773) for  in range(28)]) # _Peter Luschny, May 16 2016

(2*x/(3*x-1+sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2))).series(x, 30).coefficients(x, sparse=False) # G. C. Greubel, Apr 05 2019

G.f.: 2*x/(3*x-1+sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2)). - Len Smiley
Also a(0)=1, a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n-1} M(k)*a(n-k-1), where M(n) are the Motzkin numbers (A001006).
D-finite with recurrence n*a(n) = 2*n*a(n-1) + 3*(n-2)*a(n-2), a(0)=a(1)=1. - Michael Somos, Feb 02 2002
G.f.: 1/2+(1/2)*((1+x)/(1-3*x))^(1/2). Related to Motzkin numbers A001006 by a(n+1) = 3*a(n) - A001006(n-1) [see Yaqubi Lemma 2.6].
a(n) = Sum_{q=0..n} binomial(q, floor(q/2))*binomial(n-1, q) for n > 0. - Emeric Deutsch, Aug 15 2002
From Paul Barry, Jun 22 2004: (Start)
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^(n+k)*C(n, k)*C(2*k+1, k+1).
a(n) = 0^n + Sum_{k=0..n-1} (-1)^(n+k-1)*C(n-1, k)*C(2*k+1, k+1). (End)
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^k*3^(n-k)*binomial(n, k)*A000108(k). - Paul Barry, Jan 27 2005
Starting (1, 2, 5, 13, ...) gives binomial transform of A001405 and inverse binomial transform of A001700. - Gary W. Adamson, Aug 31 2007
Starting (1, 2, 5, 13, 35, 96, ...) gives row sums of triangle A132814. - Gary W. Adamson, Aug 31 2007
G.f.: 1/(1-x/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Jan 19 2009
G.f.: 1+x/(1-2*x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-x-x^2/(1-.... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Jan 19 2009
a(n) = Sum_{l_1=0..n+1} Sum_{l_2=0..n}...Sum_{l_i=0..n-i}...Sum_{l_n=0..1} delta(l_1,l_2,...,l_i,...,l_n) where delta(l_1,l_2,...,l_i,...,l_n) = 0 if any (l_i - l_(i+1))^2 >= 2 for i=1..n-1 and delta(l_1,l_2,..., l_i,...,l_n) = 1 otherwise. - Thomas Wieder, Feb 25 2009
INVERT transform of offset Motzkin numbers (A001006): (a(n)){n>=1}=(1,1,2,4,9,21,...). - _David Callan, Aug 27 2009
A005773(n) = ((n+3)*A001006(n+1) + (n-3)*A001006(n)) * (n+2)/(18*n) for n > 0. - Mark van Hoeij, Jul 02 2010
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} (k/n * Sum_{j=0..n} binomial(n,j)*binomial(j,2*j-n-k)). - Vladimir Kruchinin, Sep 06 2010
a(0) = 1; a(n+1) = Sum_{t=0..n} n!/((n-t)!*ceiling(t/2)!*floor(t/2)!). - Andrew S. Hays, Feb 02 2011
a(n) = leftmost column term of M^n*V, where M = an infinite quadradiagonal matrix with all 1's in the main, super and subdiagonals, [1,0,0,0,...] in the diagonal starting at position (2,0); and rest zeros. V = vector [1,0,0,0,...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 16 2011
From Gary W. Adamson, Jul 29 2011: (Start)
a(n) = upper left term of M^n, a(n+1) = sum of top row terms of M^n; M = an infinite square production matrix in which the main diagonal is (1,1,0,0,0,...) as follows:
  1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
  1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, ...
  1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, ...
  1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, ...
  1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, ...
  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, ... (End)
Limit_{n->oo} a(n+1)/a(n) = 3.0 = lim_{n->oo} (1 + 2*cos(Pi/n)). - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 10 2012
a(n) = A025565(n+1) / 2 for n > 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 30 2012
With first term deleted: E.g.f.: a(n) = n! * [x^n] exp(x)*(BesselI(0, 2*x) + BesselI(1, 2*x)). - Peter Luschny, Aug 25 2012
G.f.: G(0)/2 + 1/2, where G(k) = 1 + 2*x*(4*k+1)/( (2*k+1)*(1+x) - x*(1+x)*(2*k+1)*(4*k+3)/(x*(4*k+3) + (1+x)*(k+1)/G(k+1))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Jun 24 2013
a(n) ~ 3^(n-1/2)/sqrt(Pi*n). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jul 30 2013
For n > 0, a(n) = (-1)^(n+1) * hypergeom([3/2, 1-n], [2], 4). - Vladimir Reshetnikov, Apr 25 2016
a(n) = GegenbauerC(n-2,-n+1,-1/2) + GegenbauerC(n-1,-n+1,-1/2) for n >= 1. - Peter Luschny, May 12 2016
0 = a(n)*(+9*a(n+1) + 18*a(n+2) - 9*a(n+3)) + a(n+1)*(-6*a(n+1) + 7*a(n+2) - 2*a(n+3)) + a(n+2)*(-2*a(n+2) + a(n+3)) for n >= 0. - Michael Somos, Dec 01 2016
G.f.: 1/(1-x*G(x)) where G(x) is g.f. of A001006. - Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2017
a(n) = (-1)^(n + 1)*2*JacobiP(n - 1, 3, -n - 1/2, -7)/(n^2 + n). - Peter Luschny, May 25 2021
a(n+1) = A005043(n) + 2*A005717(n) for n >= 1. - Peter Bala, Feb 11 2022
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n-1} A064189(n-1,k) for n >= 1. - Alois P. Heinz, Aug 29 2022

A039598 Triangle formed from odd-numbered columns of triangle of expansions of powers of x in terms of Chebyshev polynomials U_n(x). Sometimes called Catalan's triangle.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 1, 5, 4, 1, 14, 14, 6, 1, 42, 48, 27, 8, 1, 132, 165, 110, 44, 10, 1, 429, 572, 429, 208, 65, 12, 1, 1430, 2002, 1638, 910, 350, 90, 14, 1, 4862, 7072, 6188, 3808, 1700, 544, 119, 16, 1, 16796, 25194, 23256, 15504, 7752, 2907, 798, 152, 18, 1

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

T(n,k) is the number of leaves at level k+1 in all ordered trees with n+1 edges. - Emeric Deutsch, Jan 15 2005
Riordan array ((1-2x-sqrt(1-4x))/(2x^2),(1-2x-sqrt(1-4x))/(2x)). Inverse array is A053122. - Paul Barry, Mar 17 2005
T(n,k) is the number of walks of n steps, each in direction N, S, W, or E, starting at the origin, remaining in the upper half-plane and ending at height k (see the R. K. Guy reference, p. 5). Example: T(3,2)=6 because we have ENN, WNN, NEN, NWN, NNE and NNW. - Emeric Deutsch, Apr 15 2005
Triangle T(n,k), 0<=k<=n, read by rows given by T(0,0)=1, T(n,k)=0 if k<0 or if k>n, T(n,0) = 2*T(n-1,0) + T(n-1,1), T(n,k) = T(n-1,k-1) + 2*T(n-1,k) + T(n-1,k+1) for k>=1. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 30 2007
Number of (2n+1)-step walks from (0,0) to (2n+1,2k+1) and consisting of steps u=(1,1) and d=(1,-1) in which the path stays in the nonnegative quadrant. Examples: T(2,0)=5 because we have uuudd, uudud, uuddu, uduud, ududu; T(2,1)=4 because we have uuuud, uuudu, uuduu, uduuu; T(2,2)=1 because we have uuuuu. - Philippe Deléham, Apr 16 2007, Apr 18 2007
Triangle read by rows: T(n,k)=number of lattice paths from (0,0) to (n,k) that do not go below the line y=0 and consist of steps U=(1,1), D=(1,-1) and two types of steps H=(1,0); example: T(3,1)=14 because we have UDU, UUD, 4 HHU paths, 4 HUH paths and 4 UHH paths. - Philippe Deléham, Sep 25 2007
This triangle belongs to the family of triangles defined by T(0,0)=1, T(n,k)=0 if k<0 or if k>n, T(n,0) = x*T(n-1,0) + T(n-1,1), T(n,k) = T(n-1,k-1) + y*T(n-1,k) + T(n-1,k+1) for k>=1. Other triangles arise by choosing different values for (x,y): (0,0) -> A053121; (0,1) -> A089942; (0,2) -> A126093; (0,3) -> A126970; (1,0) -> A061554; (1,1) -> A064189; (1,2) -> A039599; (1,3) -> A110877; (1,4) -> A124576; (2,0) -> A126075; (2,1) -> A038622; (2,2) -> A039598; (2,3) -> A124733; (2,4) -> A124575; (3,0) -> A126953; (3,1) -> A126954; (3,2) -> A111418; (3,3) -> A091965; (3,4) -> A124574; (4,3) -> A126791; (4,4) -> A052179; (4,5) -> A126331; (5,5) -> A125906. - Philippe Deléham, Sep 25 2007
With offset [1,1] this is the (ordinary) convolution triangle a(n,m) with o.g.f. of column m given by (c(x)-1)^m, where c(x) is the o.g.f. for Catalan numbers A000108. See the Riordan comment by Paul Barry.
T(n, k) is also the number of order-preserving full transformations (of an n-chain) with exactly k fixed points. - Abdullahi Umar, Oct 02 2008
T(n,k)/2^(2n+1) = coefficients of the maximally flat lowpass digital differentiator of the order N=2n+3. - Pavel Holoborodko (pavel(AT)holoborodko.com), Dec 19 2008
The signed triangle S(n,k) := (-1)^(n-k)*T(n,k) provides the transformation matrix between f(n,l) := L(2*l)*5^n*F(2*l)^(2*n+1) (F=Fibonacci numbers A000045, L=Lucas numbers A000032) and F(4*l*(k+1)), k = 0, ..., n, for each l>=0: f(n,l) = Sum_{k=0..n} S(n,k)*F(4*l*(k+1)), n>=0, l>=0. Proof: the o.g.f. of the l.h.s., G(l;x) := Sum_{n>=0} f(n,l)*x^n = F(4*l)/(1 - 5*F(2*l)^2*x) is shown to match the o.g.f. of the r.h.s.: after an interchange of the n- and k-summation, the Riordan property of S = (C(x)/x,C(x)) (compare with the above comments by Paul Barry), with C(x) := 1 - c(-x), with the o.g.f. c(x) of A000108 (Catalan numbers), is used, to obtain, after an index shift, first Sum_{k>=0} F(4*l*(k))*GS(k;x), with the o.g.f of column k of triangle S which is GS(k;x) := Sum_{n>=k} S(n,k)*x^n = C(x)^(k+1)/x. The result is GF(l;C(x))/x with the o.g.f. GF(l,x) := Sum_{k>=0} F(4*l*k)*x^k = x*F(4*l)/(1-L(4*l)*x+x^2) (see a comment on A049670, and A028412). If one uses then the identity L(4*n) - 5*F(2*n)^2 = 2 (in Koshy's book [reference under A065563] this is No. 15, p. 88, attributed to Lucas, 1876), the proof that one recovers the o.g.f. of the l.h.s. from above boils down to a trivial identity on the Catalan o.g.f., namely 1/c^2(-x) = 1 + 2*x - (x*c(-x))^2. - Wolfdieter Lang, Aug 27 2012
O.g.f. for row polynomials R(x) := Sum_{k=0..n} a(n,k)*x^k:
  ((1+x) - C(z))/(x - (1+x)^2*z) with C the o.g.f. of A000108 (Catalan numbers). From Riordan ((C(x)-1)/x,C(x)-1), compare with a Paul Barry comment above. This coincides with the o.g.f. given by Emeric Deutsch in the formula section. - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 13 2012
The A-sequence for this Riordan triangle is [1,2,1] and the Z-sequence is [2,1]. See a W. Lang link under A006232 with details and references. - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 13 2012
From Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 20 2013: (Start)
T(n, k) = A053121(2*n+1, 2*k+1). T(n, k) appears in the formula for the (2*n+1)-th power of the algebraic number rho(N) := 2*cos(Pi/N) = R(N, 2) in terms of the even-indexed diagonal/side length ratios R(N, 2*(k+1)) = S(2*k+1, rho(N)) in the regular N-gon inscribed in the unit circle (length unit 1). S(n, x) are Chebyshev's S polynomials (see A049310): rho(N)^(2*n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} T(n, k)*R(N, 2*(k+1)), n >= 0, identical in N >= 1. For a proof see the Sep 21 2013 comment under A053121. Note that this is the unreduced version if R(N, j) with j > delta(N), the degree of the algebraic number rho(N) (see A055034), appears. For the even powers of rho(n) see A039599. (End)
The tridiagonal Toeplitz production matrix P in the Example section corresponds to the unsigned Cartan matrix for the simple Lie algebra A_n as n tends to infinity (cf. Damianou ref. in A053122). -  Tom Copeland, Dec 11 2015 (revised Dec 28 2015)
T(n,k) is the number of pairs of non-intersecting walks of n steps, each in direction N or E, starting at the origin, and such that the end points of the two paths are separated by a horizontal distance of k. See Shapiro 1976. - Peter Bala, Apr 12 2017
Also the convolution triangle of the Catalan numbers A000108. - Peter Luschny, Oct 07 2022

			Triangle T(n,k) starts:
n\k     0      1      2      3      4     5    6    7   8  9 10
0:      1
1:      2      1
2:      5      4      1
3:     14     14      6      1
4:     42     48     27      8      1
5:    132    165    110     44     10     1
6:    429    572    429    208     65    12    1
7:   1430   2002   1638    910    350    90   14    1
8:   4862   7072   6188   3808   1700   544  119   16   1
9:  16796  25194  23256  15504   7752  2907  798  152  18  1
10: 58786  90440  87210  62016  33915 14364 4655 1120 189 20  1
... Reformatted and extended by _Wolfdieter Lang_, Nov 13 2012.
Production matrix begins:
2, 1
1, 2, 1
0, 1, 2, 1
0, 0, 1, 2, 1
0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1
0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1
- _Philippe Deléham_, Nov 07 2011
From _Wolfdieter Lang_, Nov 13 2012: (Start)
Recurrence: T(5,1) = 165 = 1*42 + 2*48 +1*27. The Riordan A-sequence is [1,2,1].
Recurrence from Riordan Z-sequence [2,1]: T(5,0) = 132 = 2*42 + 1*48. (End)
From _Wolfdieter Lang_, Sep 20 2013: (Start)
  Example for rho(N) = 2*cos(Pi/N) powers:
  n=2: rho(N)^5 = 5*R(N, 2) + 4*R(N, 4) + 1*R(N, 6) = 5*S(1, rho(N)) + 4*S(3, rho(N)) + 1*S(5, rho(N)), identical in N >= 1. For N=5 (the pentagon with only one distinct diagonal) the degree delta(5) = 2, hence R(5, 4) and R(5, 6) can be reduced, namely to R(5, 1) = 1 and R(5, 6) = -R(5,1) = -1, respectively. Thus rho(5)^5 = 5*R(N, 2) + 4*1  + 1*(-1) = 3 + 5*R(N, 2) = 3 + 5*rho(5), with the golden section rho(5). (End)

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Mirror image of A050166. Row sums are A001700.

Cf. A000108, A008313, A039599, A183134, A094527, A033184, A035324, A053122, A172417.

/* As triangle: */ [[Binomial(2*n,n-k) - Binomial(2*n,n-k-2): k in [0..n]]: n in [0.. 15]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jul 22 2015

T:=(n,k)->binomial(2*n, n-k) - binomial(2*n, n-k-2); # N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 26 2013
# Uses function PMatrix from A357368. Adds row and column above and to the left.
PMatrix(10, n -> binomial(2*n, n) / (n + 1)); # Peter Luschny, Oct 07 2022

Flatten[Table[Binomial[2n, n-k] - Binomial[2n, n-k-2], {n,0,9}, {k,0,n}]] (* Jean-François Alcover, May 03 2011 *)

T(n,k)=binomial(2*n,n-k) - binomial(2*n,n-k-2) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 07 2016

# Algorithm of L. Seidel (1877)
# Prints the first n rows of the triangle.
def A039598_triangle(n) :
    D = [0]*(n+2); D[1] = 1
    b = True; h = 1
    for i in range(2*n) :
        if b :
            for k in range(h,0,-1) : D[k] += D[k-1]
            h += 1
        else :
            for k in range(1,h, 1) : D[k] += D[k+1]
        b = not b
        if b : print([D[z] for z in (1..h-1) ])
A039598_triangle(10)  # Peter Luschny, May 01 2012

Row n: C(2n, n-k) - C(2n, n-k-2).
a(n, k) = C(2n+1, n-k)*2*(k+1)/(n+k+2) = A050166(n, n-k) = a(n-1, k-1) + 2*a(n-1, k)+ a (n-1, k+1) [with a(0, 0) = 1 and a(n, k) = 0 if n<0 or nHenry Bottomley, Sep 24 2001
From Philippe Deléham, Feb 14 2004: (Start)
T(n, 0) = A000108(n+1), T(n, k) = 0 if n0, T(n, k) = Sum_{j=1..n} T(n-j, k-1)*A000108(j).
G.f. for column k: Sum_{n>=0} T(n, k)*x^n = x^k*C(x)^(2*k+2) where C(x) = Sum_{n>=0} A000108(n)*x^n is g.f. for Catalan numbers, A000108.
Sum_{k>=0} T(m, k)*T(n, k) = A000108(m+n+1). (End)
T(n, k) = A009766(n+k+1, n-k) = A033184(n+k+2, 2k+2). - Philippe Deléham, Feb 14 2004
Sum_{j>=0} T(k, j)*A039599(n-k, j) = A028364(n, k). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 04 2004
Antidiagonal Sum_{k=0..n} T(n-k, k) = A000957(n+3). - Gerald McGarvey, Jun 05 2005
The triangle may also be generated from M^n * [1,0,0,0,...], where M = an infinite tridiagonal matrix with 1's in the super- and subdiagonals and [2,2,2,...] in the main diagonal. - Gary W. Adamson, Dec 17 2006
G.f.: G(t,x) = C^2/(1-txC^2), where C = (1-sqrt(1-4x))/(2x) is the Catalan function. From here G(-1,x)=C, i.e., the alternating row sums are the Catalan numbers (A000108). - Emeric Deutsch, Jan 20 2007
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*x^k = A000957(n+1), A000108(n), A000108(n+1), A001700(n), A049027(n+1), A076025(n+1), A076026(n+1) for x=-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4 respectively (see square array in A067345). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 21 2007, Nov 04 2011
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(k+1) = 4^n. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 30 2007
Sum_{j>=0} T(n,j)*binomial(j,k) = A035324(n,k), A035324 with offset 0 (0 <= k <= n). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 30 2007
T(n,k) = A053121(2*n+1,2*k+1). - Philippe Deléham, Apr 16 2007, Apr 18 2007
T(n,k) = A039599(n,k) + A039599(n,k+1). - Philippe Deléham, Sep 11 2007
Sum_{k=0..n+1} T(n+1,k)*k^2 = A029760(n). - Philippe Deléham, Dec 16 2007
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*A059841(k) = A000984(n). - Philippe Deléham, Nov 12 2008
G.f.: 1/(1-xy-2x-x^2/(1-2x-x^2/(1-2x-x^2/(1-2x-x^2/(1-2x-x^2/(1-.... (continued fraction).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*x^(n-k) = A000012(n), A001700(n), A194723(n+1), A194724(n+1), A194725(n+1), A194726(n+1), A194727(n+1), A194728(n+1), A194729(n+1), A194730(n+1) for x = 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 respectively. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 03 2011
From Peter Bala, Dec 21 2014: (Start)
This triangle factorizes in the Riordan group as ( C(x), x*C(x) ) * ( 1/(1 - x), x/(1 - x) ) = A033184 * A007318, where C(x) = (1 - sqrt(1 - 4*x))/(2*x) is the o.g.f. for the Catalan numbers A000108.
Let U denote the lower unit triangular array with 1's on or below the main diagonal and zeros elsewhere. For k = 0,1,2,... define U(k) to be the lower unit triangular block array
/I_k 0\
\ 0  U/ having the k X k identity matrix I_k as the upper left block; in particular, U(0) = U. Then this array equals the bi-infinite product (...*U(2)*U(1)*U(0))*(U(0)*U(1)*U(2)*...). (End)
From Peter Bala, Jul 21 2015: (Start)
O.g.f. G(x,t) = (1/x) * series reversion of ( x/f(x,t) ), where f(x,t) = ( 1 + (1 + t)*x )^2/( 1 + t*x ).
1 + x*d/dx(G(x,t))/G(x,t) = 1 + (2 + t)*x + (6 + 4*t + t^2)*x^2 + ... is the o.g.f for A094527. (End)
Conjecture: Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)/(k+1)^2 = H(n+1)*A000108(n)*(2*n+1)/(n+1), where H(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} 1/(k+1). - Werner Schulte, Jul 23 2015
From Werner Schulte, Jul 25 2015: (Start)
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(k+1)^2 = (2*n+1)*binomial(2*n,n). (A002457)
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(k+1)^3 = 4^n*(3*n+2)/2.
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(k+1)^4 = (2*n+1)^2*binomial(2*n,n).
Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*(k+1)^5 = 4^n*(15*n^2+15*n+4)/4. (End)
The o.g.f. G(x,t) is such that G(x,t+1) is the o.g.f. for A035324, but with an offset of 0, and G(x,t-1) is the o.g.f. for A033184, again with an offset of 0. - Peter Bala, Sep 20 2015
Denote this lower triangular array by L; then L * transpose(L) is the Cholesky factorization of the Hankel matrix ( 1/(i+j)*binomial(2*i+2*j-2, i+j-1) )A172417%20read%20as%20a%20square%20array.%20See%20Chamberland,%20p.%201669.%20-%20_Peter%20Bala">i,j >= 1 = A172417 read as a square array. See Chamberland, p. 1669. - _Peter Bala, Oct 15 2023

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A104562 Inverse of the Motzkin triangle A064189.

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A171380 Expansion of the first column of triangle T_(1,x), T(x,y) defined in A039599; T_(1,0)= A061554, T_(1,1)= A064189, T_(1,2)= A039599, T_(1,3)= A110877, T_(1,4)= A124576.

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A128810 Triangle formed by reading triangle A064189 mod 2 .

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A330792 T(n, k) = P(n-k, k) where P(n, x) = Sum_{k=0..n} A064189(n, k)*x^k. Triangle read by rows, for 0 <= k <= n.

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A001006 Motzkin numbers: number of ways of drawing any number of nonintersecting chords joining n (labeled) points on a circle.

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A005043 Riordan numbers: a(n) = (n-1)*(2*a(n-1) + 3*a(n-2))/(n+1).

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A005043 Riordan numbers: a(n) = (n-1)(2a(n-1) + 3*a(n-2))/(n+1).