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Row n is the signature permutation of the Catalan automorphism which is obtained from the n-th nonrecursive automorphism in the table A089840 with the recursion scheme "ENIPS". In this recursion scheme the algorithm first recurses down to the right-hand side branch of the binary tree, before the given automorphism is applied at its root. This corresponds to the fold-right operation applied to the Catalan structure, interpreted e.g. as a parenthesization or a Lisp-like list, where (lambda (x y) (f (cons x y))) is the binary function given to fold, with 'f' being the given automorphism. The associated Scheme-procedures ENIPS and !ENIPS can be used to obtain such a transformed automorphism from any constructively or destructively implemented automorphism. Each row occurs only once in this table. Inverses of these permutations can be found in table A122203.

Because of the "universal property of folds", the recursion scheme ENIPS has a well-defined inverse, that is, it acts as a bijective mapping on the set of all Catalan automorphisms. Specifically, if g = ENIPS(f), then (f s) = (g (cons (car s) (g^{-1} (cdr s)))), that is, to obtain an automorphism f which gives g when subjected to recursion scheme ENIPS, we compose g with its own inverse applied to the cdr-branch of a S-expression (i.e. the right subtree in the context of binary trees). This implies that for any non-recursive automorphism f in the table A089840, ENIPS^{-1}(f) is also in A089840, which in turn implies that the rows of table A089840 form a (proper) subset of the rows of this table.

Row n is the signature permutation of the Catalan automorphism which is obtained from the n-th automorphism in the table A122203 with the recursion scheme "ENIPS", or equivalently row n is obtained as ENIPS(SPINE(n-th row of A089840)). See A122203 and A122204 for the description of SPINE and ENIPS. Each row occurs only once in this table. Inverses of these permutations can be found in table A122286. This table contains also all the rows of A122204 and A089840.

This automorphism effects the following transformation on the unlabeled rooted plane binary trees (letters A, B, C refer to arbitrary subtrees located on those nodes and () stands for an implied terminal node.)

A...B..............B...C

.\./................\./

..x...C..-->.....A...x................()..B.......B..()

...\./............\./..................\./...-->...\./.

....x..............x....................x...........x..

((a . b) . c) -> (a . (b . c)) __ (() . b) --> (b . ())

That is, we rotate the binary tree right, in case it is possible and otherwise (if the left hand side of a tree is a terminal node) swap the right and left subtree (so that the terminal node ends to the right hand side), i.e. apply the automorphism *A069770. Look at the example in A069770 to see how this will produce the given sequence of integers.

See also the comments at A074679.