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A065941 T(n,k) = binomial(n-floor((k+1)/2), floor(k/2)). Triangle read by rows, for 0 <= k <= n.

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1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 5, 4, 6, 3, 1, 1, 1, 6, 5, 10, 6, 4, 1, 1, 1, 7, 6, 15, 10, 10, 4, 1, 1, 1, 8, 7, 21, 15, 20, 10, 5, 1, 1, 1, 9, 8, 28, 21, 35, 20, 15, 5, 1, 1, 1, 10, 9, 36, 28, 56, 35, 35, 15, 6, 1, 1, 1, 11, 10, 45, 36, 84, 56, 70, 35, 21, 6, 1
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Len Smiley, Nov 29 2001

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Also the q-Stirling2 numbers at q = -1. - Peter Luschny, Mar 09 2020
Row sums give the Fibonacci sequence. So do the alternating row sums.
Triangle of coefficients of polynomials defined by p(-1,x) = p(0,x) = 1, p(n, x) = x*p(n-1, x) + p(n-2, x), for n >= 1. - Benoit Cloitre, May 08 2005 [rewritten with correct offset. - Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 18 2020]
Another version of triangle in A103631. - Philippe Deléham, Jan 01 2009
The T(n,k) coefficients appear in appendix 2 of Parks's remarkable article "A new proof of the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion using the second method of Liapunov" if we assume that the b(n) coefficients are all equal to 1 and ignore the first column. The complete version of this triangle including the first column is A103631. - Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 11 2011
Signed ++--++..., the roots are chaotic using f(x) --> x^2 - 2 with cycle lengths shown in A003558 by n-th rows. Example: given row 3, x^3 + x^2 - 2x - 1; the roots are (a = 1.24697, ...; b = -0.445041, ...; c = -1.802937, ...). Then (say using seed b with x^2 - 2) we obtain the trajectory -0.445041, ... -> -1.80193, ... -> 1.24697, ...; matching the entry "3" in A003558(3). - Gary W. Adamson, Sep 06 2011
From Gary W. Adamson, Aug 25 2019: (Start)
Roots to the polynomials and terms in A003558 can all be obtained from the numbers below using a doubling series mod N procedure as follows: (more than one row may result). Any row ends when the trajectory produces a term already used. Then try the next higher odd term not used as the leftmost term, then repeat.
For example, for N = 11, we get: (1, 2, 4, 3, 5), showing that when confronted with two choices after the 4: (8 and -3), pick the smaller (abs) term, = 3. Then for the next row pick 7 (not used) and repeat the algorithm; succeeding only if the trajectory produces new terms. But 7 is also (-4) mod 11 and 4 was used. Therefore what I call the "r-t table" (for roots trajectory) has only one row: (1, 2, 4, 3, 5). Conjecture: The numbers of terms in the first row is equal to A003558 corresponding to N, i.e., 5 in this case with period 2.
Now for the roots to the polynomials. Pick N = 7. The polynomial is x^3 - x^2 - 2x + 1 = 0, with roots 1.8019..., -1.2469... and 0.445... corresponding to 2*cos(j*Pi/N), N = 7, and j = (1, 2, and 3). The terms (1, 2, 3) are the r-t terms for N = 7. For 11, the r-t terms are (1, 2, 4, 3, 5). This implies that given any roots of the corresponding polynomial, they are cyclic using f(x) --> x^2 - 2 with cycle lengths shown in A003558. The terms thus generated are 2*cos(j*Pi), with j = (1, 2, 4, 3, 5). Check: Begin with 2*j*Pi/N, with j = 1 (1.9189...). The other trajectory terms are: --> 1.6825..., --> 0.83083..., -1.3097...; 545...; (a 5 period and cyclic since we can begin with any of the constants). The r-t table for odd N begins as follows:
3...............1
5...............1, 2
7...............1, 2, 3
9...............1, 2, 4
...............3 (singleton terms reduce to "1") (9 has two rows)
11...............1, 2, 4, 3, 5
13...............1, 2, 4, 5, 3, 6
15...............1, 2, 4, 7
................3, 6 (dividing through by the gcd gives (1, 2))
................5. (singleton terms reduce to "1")
The result is that 15 has 3 factors (since 3 rows), and the values of those factors are the previous terms "N", corresponding to the r-t terms in each row. Thus, the first row is new, the second (1, 2), corresponds to N = 5, and the "1" in row 3 corresponds to N = 3. The factors are those values apart from 15 and 1. Note that all of the unreduced r-t terms in all rows for N form a complete set of the terms 1 through (N-1)/2 without duplication. (End)
From Gary W. Adamson, Sep 30 2019: (Start)
The 3 factors of the 7th degree polynomial for 15: (x^7 - x^6 - 6x^5 + 5x^4 + 10x^3 - 6x^2 - 4x + 1) can be determined by getting the roots for 2*cos(j*Pi/1), j = (1, 2, 4, 7) and finding the corresponding polynomial, which is x^4 + x^3 - 4x^2 - 4x + 1. This is the minimal polynomial for N = 15 as shown in Table 2, p. 46 of (Lang). The degree of this polynomial is 4, corresponding to the entry in A003558 for 15, = 4. The trajectories (3, 6) and (5) are j values for 2*cos(j*Pi/15) which are roots to x^2 - x - 1 (relating to the pentagon), and (x - 1), relating to the triangle. (End)
From Gary W. Adamson, Aug 21 2019: (Start)
Matrices M of the form: (1's in the main diagonal, -1's in the subdiagonal, and the rest zeros) are chaotic if we replace (f(x) --> x^2 - 2) with f(x) --> M^2 - 2I, where I is the Identity matrix [1, 0, 0; 0, 1, 0; 0, 0, 1]. For example, with the 3 X 3 matrix M: [0, 0, 1; 0, 1, -1; 1, -1, 0]; the f(x) trajectory is:
....M^2 - 2I: [-1, -1, 0; -1, 0, -1; 0, -1, 0], then for the latter,
....M^2 - 2I: [0, 1, 1; 1, 0, 0; 1, 0, -1]. The cycle ends with period 3 since the next matrix is (-1) * the seed matrix. As in the case with f(x) --> x^2 - 2, the eigenvalues of the 3 chaotic matrices are (abs) 1.24697, 0.44504... and 1.80193, ... Also, the characteristic equations of the 3 matrices are the same as or variants of row 4 of the triangle below: (x^3 + x - 2x - 1) with different signs. (End)
Received from Herb Conn, Jan 2004: (Start)
Let x = 2*cos(2A) (A = Angle); then
sin(A)/sin A = 1
sin(3A)/sin A = x + 1
sin(5A)/sin A = x^2 + x - 1
sin(7A)/sin A = x^3 + x - 2x - 1
sin(9A)/sin A = x^4 + x^3 - 3x^2 - 2x + 1
... (signed ++--++...). (End)
Or Pascal's triangle (A007318) with duplicated diagonals. Also triangle of coefficients of polynomials defined by P_0(x) = 1 and for n>=1, P_n(x) = F_n(x) + F_(n+1)(x), where F_n(x) is Fibonacci polynomial (cf. A049310): F_n(x) = Sum_{i=0..floor((n-1)/2)} C(n-i-1,i)*x^(n-2*i-1). - Vladimir Shevelev, Apr 12 2012
The matrix inverse is given by
1;
1, 1;
0, -1, 1;
0, 1, -2, 1;
0, 0, 1, -2, 1;
0, 0, -1, 3, -3, 1;
0, 0, 0, -1, 3, -3, 1;
0, 0, 0, 1, -4, 6, -4, 1;
0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -4, 6, -4, 1;
... apart from signs the same as A124645. - R. J. Mathar, Mar 12 2013

Examples

			Triangle T(n, k) begins:
n\k 0  1  2  3   4   5  6   7  8  9 ...
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[0] 1,
[1] 1, 1,
[2] 1, 1, 1,
[3] 1, 1, 2, 1,
[4] 1, 1, 3, 2,  1,
[5] 1, 1, 4, 3,  3,  1,
[6] 1, 1, 5, 4,  6,  3,  1,
[7] 1, 1, 6, 5, 10,  6,  4,  1,
[8] 1, 1, 7, 6, 15, 10, 10,  4,  1,
[9] 1, 1, 8, 7, 21, 15, 20, 10,  5, 1,
---------------------------------------
From _Gary W. Adamson_, Oct 23 2019: (Start)
Consider the roots of the polynomials corresponding to odd N such that for N=7 the polynomial is (x^3 + x^2 - 2x - 1) and the roots (a, b, c) are (-1.8019377..., 1.247697..., and -0.445041...). The discriminant of a polynomial derived from the roots is the square of the product of successive differences: ((a-b), (b-c), (c-a))^2 in this case, resulting in 49, matching the method derived from the coefficients of a cubic. For our purposes we use the product of the differences, not the square, resulting in (3.048...) * (1.69202...) * (1.35689...) = 7.0. Conjecture: for all polynomials in the set, the product of the differences of the roots = the corresponding N. For N = 7, we get x^3 - 7x + 7. It appears that for all prime N's, these resulting companion polynomials are monic (left coefficient is 1), and all other coefficients are N or multiples thereof, with the rightmost term = N. The companion polynomials for the first few primes are:
  N =  5:  x^2 - 5;
  N =  7:  x^3 - 7x + 7;
  N = 11:  x^5 - 11x^3 + 11x^2 + 11x - 11;
  N = 13:  x^6 - 13x^4 + 13x^3 + 26x^2 - 39x + 13;
  N = 17:  x^8 - 17x^6 + 17x^5 + 68x^4 - 119x^3 + 17x^2 + 51x - 17;
  N = 19:  x^9 - 19x^7 + 19x^6 + 95x^5 - 171x^4 - 19x^3 + 190x^2 - 114x + 19. (End)

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Crossrefs

Cf. A065942 (central stalk sequence), A000045 (row sums), A108299.
Reflected version of A046854.
Some triangle sums (see A180662): A000045 (Fi1), A016116 (Kn21), A000295 (Kn23), A094967 (Fi2), A000931 (Ca2), A001519 (Gi3), A000930 (Ze3).
Cf. A003558, A182579, A059841, A333143.

Programs

  • Haskell
    a065941 n k = a065941_tabl !! n !! k
a065941_row n = a065941_tabl !! n
a065941_tabl = iterate (\row ->
   zipWith (+) ([0] ++ row) (zipWith (*) (row ++ [0]) a059841_list)) [1]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, May 07 2012
  • Magma
    [Binomial(n - Floor((k+1)/2), Floor(k/2)): k in [0..n], n in [0..15]]; // G. C. Greubel, Jul 10 2019
  • Maple
    A065941 := proc(n,k): binomial(n-floor((k+1)/2),floor(k/2)) end: seq(seq(A065941(n,k), k=0..n), n=0..15); # Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 11 2011
A065941 := proc(n,k) option remember: local j: if k=0 then 1 elif k=1 then 1: elif k>=2 then add(procname(j,k-2), j=k-2..n-2) fi: end: seq(seq(A065941(n,k), k=0..n), n=0..15);  # Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 11 2011
# The function qStirling2 is defined in A333143.
seq(print(seq(qStirling2(n, k, -1), k=0..n)), n=0..9);
# Peter Luschny, Mar 09 2020
  • Mathematica
    Flatten[Table[Binomial[n-Floor[(k+1)/2],Floor[k/2]],{n,0,15},{k,0,n}]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 11 2011 *)
  • PARI
    T065941(n, k) = binomial(n-(k+1)\2, k\2); \\ Michel Marcus, Apr 28 2014
  • Sage
    [[binomial(n - floor((k+1)/2), floor(k/2)) for k in (0..n)] for n in (0..15)] # G. C. Greubel, Jul 10 2019

Formula

T(n, k) = binomial(n-floor((k+1)/2), floor(k/2)).
As a square array read by antidiagonals, this is given by T1(n, k) = binomial(floor(n/2) + k, k). - Paul Barry, Mar 11 2003
Triangle is a reflection of that in A066170 (absolute values). - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 16 2004
Recurrences: T(k, 0) = 1, T(k, n) = T(k-1, n) + T(k-2, n-2), or T(k, n) = T(k-1, n) + T(k-1, n-1) if n even, T(k-1, n-1) if n odd. - Ralf Stephan, May 17 2004
G.f.: sum[n, sum[k, T(k, n)x^ky^n]] = (1+xy)/(1-y-x^2y^2). sum[n>=0, T(k, n)y^n] = y^k/(1-y)^[k/2]. - Ralf Stephan, May 17 2004
T(n, k) = A108299(n, k)*A087960(k) = abs(A108299(n, k)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 01 2005
From Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 11 2011: (Start)
T(n,k) = A046854(n, n-k) = abs(A066170(n, n-k)).
T(n+k, n-k) = A109223(n,k).
T(n, k) = sum(T(j, k-2), j=k-2..n-2), 2 <= k <= n, n>=2;
T(n, 0) =1, T(n+1, 1) = 1, n >= 0. (End)
For n > 1: T(n, k) = T(n-2, k) + T(n-1, k), 1 < k < n. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 24 2013

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