A108625 Square array, read by antidiagonals, where row n equals the crystal ball sequence for the A_n lattice.

1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 7, 5, 1, 1, 13, 19, 7, 1, 1, 21, 55, 37, 9, 1, 1, 31, 131, 147, 61, 11, 1, 1, 43, 271, 471, 309, 91, 13, 1, 1, 57, 505, 1281, 1251, 561, 127, 15, 1, 1, 73, 869, 3067, 4251, 2751, 923, 169, 17, 1, 1, 91, 1405, 6637, 12559, 11253, 5321, 1415, 217, 19, 1

Offset: 0

Author

Paul D. Hanna, Jun 12 2005

Keywords

• nonn
• tabl

Comments

Compare to the corresponding array A108553 of crystal ball sequences for D_n lattice.

From Peter Bala, Jul 18 2008: (Start)

Row reverse of A099608.

This array has a remarkable relationship with the constant zeta(2). The row, column and diagonal entries of the array occur in series acceleration formulas for zeta(2).

For the entries in row n we have zeta(2) = 2*(1 - 1/2^2 + 1/3^2 - ... + (-1)^(n+1)/n^2) + (-1)^n*Sum_{k >= 1} 1/(k^2*T(n,k-1)*T(n,k)). For example, n = 4 gives zeta(2) = 2*(1 - 1/4 + 1/9 - 1/16) + 1/(1*21) + 1/(4*21*131) + 1/(9*131*471) + ... . See A142995 for further details.

For the entries in column k we have zeta(2) = (1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + ... + 1/k^2) + 2*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(n^2*T(n-1,k)*T(n,k)). For example, k = 4 gives zeta(2) = (1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16) + 2*(1/(1*9) - 1/(4*9*61) + 1/(9*61*309) - ... ). See A142999 for further details.

Also, as consequence of Apery's proof of the irrationality of zeta(2), we have a series acceleration formula along the main diagonal of the table: zeta(2) = 5 * Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(n^2*T(n,n)*T(n-1,n-1)) = 5*(1/3 - 1/(2^2*3*19) + 1/(3^2*19*147) - ...).

There also appear to be series acceleration results along other diagonals. For example, for the main subdiagonal, calculation supports the result zeta(2) = 2 - Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)*(n^2+(2*n+1)^2)/(n^2*(n+1)^2*T(n,n-1)*T(n+1,n)) = 2 - 10/(2^2*7) + 29/(6^2*7*55) - 58/(12^2*55*471) + ..., while for the main superdiagonal we appear to have zeta(2) = 1 + Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)*((n+1)^2 + (2*n+1)^2)/(n^2*(n+1)^2*T(n-1,n)*T(n,n+1)) = 1 + 13/(2^2*5) - 34/(6^2*5*37) + 65/(12^2*37*309) - ... .

Similar series acceleration results hold for Apery's constant zeta(3) involving the crystal ball sequences for the product lattices A_n x A_n; see A143007 for further details. Similar results also hold between the constant log(2) and the crystal ball sequences of the hypercubic lattices A_1 x...x A_1 and between log(2) and the crystal ball sequences for lattices of type C_n ; see A008288 and A142992 respectively for further details. (End)

This array is the Hilbert transform of triangle A008459 (see A145905 for the definition of the Hilbert transform). - Peter Bala, Oct 28 2008

Examples

			Square array begins:
  1,   1,    1,     1,      1,       1,       1, ... A000012;
  1,   3,    5,     7,      9,      11,      13, ... A005408;
  1,   7,   19,    37,     61,      91,     127, ... A003215;
  1,  13,   55,   147,    309,     561,     923, ... A005902;
  1,  21,  131,   471,   1251,    2751,    5321, ... A008384;
  1,  31,  271,  1281,   4251,   11253,   25493, ... A008386;
  1,  43,  505,  3067,  12559,   39733,  104959, ... A008388;
  1,  57,  869,  6637,  33111,  124223,  380731, ... A008390;
  1,  73, 1405, 13237,  79459,  350683, 1240399, ... A008392;
  1,  91, 2161, 24691, 176251,  907753, 3685123, ... A008394;
  1, 111, 3191, 43561, 365751, 2181257, ...      ... A008396;
  ...
As a triangle:
  [0]  1
  [1]  1,  1
  [2]  1,  3,   1
  [3]  1,  7,   5,    1
  [4]  1, 13,  19,    7,    1
  [5]  1, 21,  55,   37,    9,    1
  [6]  1, 31, 131,  147,   61,   11,   1
  [7]  1, 43, 271,  471,  309,   91,  13,   1
  [8]  1, 57, 505, 1281, 1251,  561, 127,  15,  1
  [9]  1, 73, 869, 3067, 4251, 2751, 923, 169, 17, 1
       ...
Inverse binomial transform of rows yield rows of triangle A063007:
  1;
  1,  2;
  1,  6,   6;
  1, 12,  30,  20;
  1, 20,  90, 140,  70;
  1, 30, 210, 560, 630, 252; ...
Product of the g.f. of row n and (1-x)^(n+1) generates the symmetric triangle A008459:
  1;
  1,  1;
  1,  4,   1;
  1,  9,   9,   1;
  1, 16,  36,  16,  1;
  1, 25, 100, 100, 25, 1;
  ...
		

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Antidiagonals n = 0..140, flattened
• R. Bacher, P. de la Harpe, and B. Venkov, Séries de croissance et séries d'Ehrhart associées aux réseaux de racines, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 325 (Series 1) (1997), 1137-1142.
• Joseph T. Iosue, T. C. Mooney, Adam Ehrenberg, and Alexey V. Gorshkov, Projective toric designs, difference sets, and quantum state designs, arXiv:2311.13479 [quant-ph], 2023. See page 6.
• Armin Straub, Multivariate Apéry numbers and supercongruences of rational functions, Algebra & Number Theory, Vol. 8, No. 8 (2014), pp. 1985-2008; arXiv preprint, arXiv:1401.0854 [math.NT], 2014.
• A. van der Poorten, A proof that Euler missed ... Apery's proof of the irrationality of zeta(3). An informal report. Math. Intelligencer 1 (1978/79), no 4, 195-203.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Apéry number.

Crossrefs

Rows include: A003215 (row 2), A005902 (row 3), A008384 (row 4), A008386 (row 5), A008388 (row 6), A008390 (row 7), A008392 (row 8), A008394 (row 9), A008396 (row 10).

Cf. A063007, A099601 (n-th term of A_{2n} lattice), A108553.

Cf. A008459 (h-vectors type B associahedra), A145904, A145905.

Cf. A005258 (main diagonal), A108626 (antidiagonal sums).

Cf. A108628, A208675, A363867, A363868, A363869, A363870, A363871.

Programs

Magma

T:= func< n,k | (&+[Binomial(n,j)^2*Binomial(n+k-j,k-j): j in [0..k]]) >; // array
A108625:= func< n,k | T(n-k,k) >; // antidiagonals
[A108625(n,k): k in [0..n], n in [0..12]]; // G. C. Greubel, Oct 05 2023

Maple

T := (n,k) -> binomial(n, k)*hypergeom([-k, k - n, k - n], [1, -n], 1):
seq(seq(simplify(T(n,k)),k=0..n),n=0..10); # Peter Luschny, Feb 10 2018

Mathematica

T[n_, k_]:= HypergeometricPFQ[{-n, -k, n+1}, {1, 1}, 1] (* Michael Somos, Jun 03 2012 *)

PARI

T(n,k)=sum(i=0,k,binomial(n,i)^2*binomial(n+k-i,k-i))

SageMath

def T(n,k): return sum(binomial(n,j)^2*binomial(n+k-j, k-j) for j in range(k+1)) # array
def A108625(n,k): return T(n-k, k) # antidiagonals
flatten([[A108625(n,k) for k in range(n+1)] for n in range(13)]) # G. C. Greubel, Oct 05 2023

Formula

T(n, k) = Sum_{i=0..k} C(n, i)^2 * C(n+k-i, k-i).

G.f. for row n: (Sum_{i=0..n} C(n, i)^2 * x^i)/(1-x)^(n+1).

Sum_{k=0..n} T(n-k, k) = A108626(n) (antidiagonal sums).

From Peter Bala, Jul 23 2008 (Start):

O.g.f. row n: 1/(1 - x)*Legendre_P(n,(1 + x)/(1 - x)).

G.f. for square array: 1/sqrt((1 - x)*((1 - t)^2 - x*(1 + t)^2)) = (1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + ...) + (1 + 3*x + 5*x^2 + 7*x^3 + ...)*t + (1 + 7*x + 19*x^2 + 37*x^3 + ...)*t^2 + ... . Cf. A142977.

Main diagonal is A005258.

Recurrence relations:

Row n entries: (k+1)^2*T(n,k+1) = (2*k^2+2*k+n^2+n+1)*T(n,k) - k^2*T(n,k-1), k = 1,2,3,... ;

Column k entries: (n+1)^2*T(n+1,k) = (2*k+1)*(2*n+1)*T(n,k) + n^2*T(n-1,k), n = 1,2,3,... ;

Main diagonal entries: (n+1)^2*T(n+1,n+1) = (11*n^2+11*n+3)*T(n,n) + n^2*T(n-1,n-1), n = 1,2,3,... .

Series acceleration formulas for zeta(2):

Row n: zeta(2) = 2*(1 - 1/2^2 + 1/3^2 - ... + (-1)^(n+1)/n^2) + (-1)^n*Sum_{k >= 1} 1/(k^2*T(n,k-1)*T(n,k));

Column k: zeta(2) = 1 + 1/2^2 + 1/3^2 + ... + 1/k^2 + 2*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(n^2*T(n-1,k)*T(n,k));

Main diagonal: zeta(2) = 5 * Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)/(n^2*T(n-1,n-1)*T(n,n)).

Conjectural result for superdiagonals: zeta(2) = 1 + 1/2^2 + ... + 1/k^2 + Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1) * (5*n^2 + 6*k*n + 2*k^2)/(n^2*(n+k)^2*T(n-1,n+k-1)*T(n,n+k)), k = 0,1,2... .

Conjectural result for subdiagonals: zeta(2) = 2*(1 - 1/2^2 + ... + (-1)^(k+1)/k^2) + (-1)^k*Sum_{n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1)*(5*n^2 + 4*k*n + k^2)/(n^2*(n+k)^2*T(n+k-1,n-1)*T(n+k,n)), k = 0,1,2... .

Conjectural congruences: the main superdiagonal numbers S(n) := T(n,n+1) appear to satisfy the supercongruences S(m*p^r - 1) = S(m*p^(r-1) - 1) (mod p^(3*r)) for all primes p >= 5 and all positive integers m and r. If p is prime of the form 4*n + 1 we can write p = a^2 + b^2 with a an odd number. Then calculation suggests the congruence S((p-1)/2) == 2*a^2 (mod p). (End)

From Michael Somos, Jun 03 2012: (Start)

T(n, k) = hypergeom([-n, -k, n + 1], [1, 1], 1).

T(n, n-1) = A208675(n).

T(n+1, n) = A108628(n). (End)

T(n, k) = binomial(n, k)*hypergeom([-k, k - n, k - n], [1, -n], 1). - Peter Luschny, Feb 10 2018

From Peter Bala, Jun 23 2023: (Start)

T(n, k) = Sum_{i = 0..k} (-1)^i * binomial(n, i)*binomial(n+k-i, k-i)^2.

T(n, k) = binomial(n+k, k)^2 * hypergeom([-n, -k, -k], [-n - k, -n - k], 1). (End)

From Peter Bala, Jun 28 2023; (Start)

T(n,k) = the coefficient of (x^n)*(y^k)*(z^n) in the expansion of 1/( (1 - x - y)*(1 - z ) - x*y*z ).

T(n,k) = B(n, k, n) in the notation of Straub, equation 24.

The supercongruences T(n*p^r, k*p^r) == T(n*p^(r-1), k*p^(r-1)) (mod p^(3*r)) hold for all primes p >= 5 and positive integers n and k.

The formula T(n,k) = hypergeom([n+1, -n, -k], [1, 1], 1) allows the table indexing to be extended to negative values of n and k; clearly, we find that T(-n,k) = T(n-1,k) for all n and k. It appears that T(n,-k) = (-1)^n*T(n,k-1) for n >= 0, while T(n,-k) = (-1)^(n+1)*T(n,k-1) for n <= -1 [added Sep 10 2023: these follow from the identities immediately below]. (End)

T(n,k) = Sum_{i = 0..n} (-1)^(n+i) * binomial(n, i)*binomial(n+i, i)*binomial(k+i, i) = (-1)^n * hypergeom([n + 1, -n, k + 1], [1, 1], 1). - Peter Bala, Sep 10 2023

From G. C. Greubel, Oct 05 2023: (Start)

Let t(n,k) = T(n-k, k) (antidiagonals).

t(n, k) = Hypergeometric3F2([k-n, -k, n-k+1], [1,1], 1).

T(n, 2*n) = A363867(n).

T(3*n, n) = A363868(n).

T(2*n, 2*n) = A363869(n).

T(n, 3*n) = A363870(n).

T(2*n, 3*n) = A363871(n). (End)

T(n, k) = Sum_{i = 0..n} binomial(n, i)*binomial(n+i, i)*binomial(k, i). - Peter Bala, Feb 26 2024

Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^(n+k)*binomial(n, k)*binomial(n+k, k)*T(n, k) = A005259(n), the Apéry numbers associated with zeta(3). - Peter Bala, Jul 18 2024

From Peter Bala, Sep 21 2024: (Start)

Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^(n+k)*binomial(n, k)*T(n, k) = binomial(2*n, n) = A000984(n).

Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^(n+k)*binomial(n, k)*binomial(n+k, k)*T(n-1, n-k) = A376458(n).

Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^(n+k)*binomial(n, k)*binomial(n+k, k)*T(i, k) = A143007(n, i). (End)

From Peter Bala, Oct 12 2024: (Start)

The square array = A063007 * transpose(A007318).

Conjecture: for positive integer m, Sum_{k = 0..n} (-1)^(n+k) * binomial(n, k) * T(m*n, k) = ((m+1)*n)!/( ((m-1)*n)!*n!^2) (verified up to m = 10 using the MulZeil procedure in Doron Zeilberger's MultiZeilberger package). (End)