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%I A064578 #99 Apr 22 2024 20:16:30 %S A064578 1,2,3,4,6,5,7,9,10,8,11,13,15,14,12,16,18,20,21,19,17,22,24,26,28,27, %T A064578 25,23,29,31,33,35,36,34,32,30,37,39,41,43,45,44,42,40,38,46,48,50,52, %U A064578 54,55,53,51,49,47,56,58,60,62,64,66,65,63,61,59,57,67,69,71,73,75,77 %N A064578 Inverse permutation to A057027. %C A064578 The sequence is an intra-block permutation of positive integers. - _Boris Putievskiy_, Mar 13 2024 %H A064578 Boris Putievskiy, <a href="/A064578/b064578.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..9870</a> %H A064578 Boris Putievskiy, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2732">Transformations [Of] Integer Sequences And Pairing Functions</a>, arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.2732 [math.CO], 2012. %H A064578 Boris Putievskiy, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18466">Integer Sequences: Irregular Arrays and Intra-Block Permutations</a>, arXiv:2310.18466 [math.CO], 2023. %H A064578 <a href="/index/Per#IntegerPermutation">Index entries for sequences that are permutations of the natural numbers</a> %F A064578 From _Boris Putievskiy_, Mar 29 2024: (Start) %F A064578 a(n) = A057944(n-1) + A194959(n). %F A064578 T(n,k) = (n-1)*n/2 + min(2*k-1, 2*(n-k+1)), for 1 <= k <= n. %F A064578 (End) %e A064578 From _Boris Putievskiy_, Mar 13 2024: (Start) %e A064578 Start of the sequence as a triangular array T(n,k) read by rows: %e A064578 k=1 2 3 4 5 6 %e A064578 n=1: 1; %e A064578 n=2: 2, 3; %e A064578 n=3: 4, 6, 5; %e A064578 n=4: 7, 9, 10, 8; %e A064578 n=5: 11, 13, 15, 14, 12; %e A064578 n=6: 16, 18, 20, 21, 19, 17; %e A064578 Row n contains a permutation block of the n numbers (n-1)*n/2+1, (n-1)*n/2+2, ..., (n-1)*n/2+n to themselves. %e A064578 Subtracting (n-1)*n/2 from each term in row n gives A194959, in which each row is a permutation of 1..n: %e A064578 1; %e A064578 1, 2; %e A064578 1, 3, 2; %e A064578 1, 3, 4, 2; %e A064578 1, 3, 5, 4, 2; %e A064578 1, 3, 5, 6, 4, 2; (End) %t A064578 T[n_, k_] := (n - 1)*n/2 + Min[2*k - 1, 2*(n - k + 1)]; %t A064578 Nmax = 6; Table[T[n, k], {n, 1, Nmax}, {k, 1, n}] // Flatten (* _Boris Putievskiy_, Mar 29 2024 *) %o A064578 (PARI) a(n) = my(A = (sqrtint(8*n) + 1)\2, B = A*(A - 1)/2, C = n - B); B + if(C <= (A+1)\2, 2*C - 1, 2*(A - C + 1)) \\ _Mikhail Kurkov_, Mar 12 2024 %Y A064578 Cf. A057027, A057944, A194959. %K A064578 nonn,easy %O A064578 1,2 %A A064578 _N. J. A. Sloane_, Oct 16 2001 %E A064578 More terms from _Vladeta Jovovic_, Oct 18 2001