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A038754 a(2n) = 3^n, a(2n+1) = 2*3^n.

1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54, 81, 162, 243, 486, 729, 1458, 2187, 4374, 6561, 13122, 19683, 39366, 59049, 118098, 177147, 354294, 531441, 1062882, 1594323, 3188646, 4782969, 9565938, 14348907, 28697814, 43046721, 86093442, 129140163, 258280326, 387420489

Offset: 0

Henry Bottomley, May 03 2000

In general, for the recurrence a(n) = a(n-1)*a(n-2)/a(n-3), all terms are integers iff a(0) divides a(2) and first three terms are positive integers, since a(2n+k) = a(k)*(a(2)/a(0))^n for all nonnegative integers n and k.
Equals eigensequence of triangle A070909; (1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, ...) shifts to the left with multiplication by triangle A070909. - Gary W. Adamson, May 15 2010
The a(n) represent all paths of length (n+1), n >= 0, starting at the initial node on the path graph P_5, see the second Maple program. - Johannes W. Meijer, May 29 2010
a(n) is the difference between numbers of multiple of 3 evil (A001969) and odious (A000069) numbers in interval [0, 2^(n+1)). - Vladimir Shevelev, May 16 2012
A "half-geometric progression": to obtain a term (beginning with the third one) we multiply the before previous one by 3. - Vladimir Shevelev, May 21 2012
Pisano periods: 1, 2, 1, 4, 8, 2, 12, 4, 1, 8, 10, 4, 6, 12, 8, 8, 32, 2, 36, 8, ... . - R. J. Mathar, Aug 10 2012
Numbers k such that the k-th cyclotomic polynomial has a root mod 3. - Eric M. Schmidt, Jul 31 2013
Range of row n of the circular Pascal array of order 6. - Shaun V. Ault, Jun 05 2014
Also, the number of walks of length n on the graph 0--1--2--3--4 starting at vertex 1. - Sean A. Irvine, Jun 03 2025

			In the interval [0,2^5) we have 11 multiples of 3 numbers, from which 10 are evil and only one (21) is odious. Thus a(4) = 10 - 1 = 9. - _Vladimir Shevelev_, May 16 2012

Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1500 (first 401 terms from T. D. Noe)
S. V. Ault and C. Kicey, Counting paths in corridors using circular Pascal arrays, Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 332 (2014), pp. 45-54.
Paul Barry, Three Études on a sequence transformation pipeline, arXiv:1803.06408 [math.CO], 2018.
Nachum Dershowitz, Between Broadway and the Hudson, arXiv:2006.06516 [math.CO], 2020.
Sean A. Irvine, Walks on Graphs.
Richard L. Ollerton and Anthony G. Shannon, Some properties of generalized Pascal squares and triangles, Fib. Q., 36 (1998), 98-109. See pages 106-7.
Vladimir Shevelev, On monotonic strengthening of Newman-like phenomenon on (2m+1)-multiples in base 2m, arXiv:0710.3177 [math.NT], 2007.
M. B. Wells, Elements of Combinatorial Computing, Pergamon, Oxford, 1971. [Annotated scanned copy of pages 237-240]
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,3).

Cf. A000045, A000069, A000079, A000120, A000244, A001969, A006720, A006721.
Cf. A006722, A006723, A008776, A028495, A030436, A037124, A048328, A061551.
Cf. A068911, A070909, A087503, A124302, A128588, A133464, A140730, A140740.
Cf. A178381, A182751, A182752, A182753, A182754, A182755, A182756, A182757.
Fifth row of the array A094718.

import Data.List (transpose)
a038754 n = a038754_list !! n
a038754_list = concat $ transpose [a000244_list, a008776_list]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 19 2015

[n le 2 select n else 3*Self(n-2): n in [1..40]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 18 2016

a[0]:=0:a[1]:=1:for n from 2 to 50 do a[n]:=3*a[n-2]+2 od: seq(a[n]+1, n=0..34); # Zerinvary Lajos, Mar 20 2008
with(GraphTheory): P:=5: G:=PathGraph(P): A:= AdjacencyMatrix(G): nmax:=35; for n from 1 to nmax do B(n):=A^n; a(n):=add(B(n)[1,k],k=1..P) od: seq(a(n),n=1..nmax); # Johannes W. Meijer, May 29 2010

LinearRecurrence[{0,3},{1,2},40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jan 26 2014 *)
CoefficientList[Series[(1+2x)/(1-3x^2), {x, 0, 40}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 18 2016 *)
Module[{nn=20,c},c=3^Range[0,nn];Riffle[c,2c]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 21 2021 *)

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a(n)=(1/6)*(5-(-1)^n)*3^floor(n/2)
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[2^(n%2)*3^((n-(n%2))/2) for n in range(61)] # G. C. Greubel, Oct 10 2022

a(n) = a(n-1)*a(n-2)/a(n-3) with a(0)=1, a(1)=2, a(2)=3.
a(2*n) = (3/2)*a(2*n-1) = 3^n, a(2*n+1) = 2*a(2*n) = 2*3^n.
From Benoit Cloitre, Apr 27 2003: (Start)
a(1)=1, a(n)= 2*a(n-1) if a(n-1) is odd, or a(n)= (3/2)*a(n-1) if a(n-1) is even.
a(n) = (1/6)*(5-(-1)^n)*3^floor(n/2).
a(2*n) = a(2*n-1) + a(2*n-2) + a(2*n-3).
a(2*n+1) = a(2*n) + a(2*n-1). (End)
G.f.: (1+2*x)/(1-3*x^2). - Paul Barry, Aug 25 2003
From Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 11 2003: (Start)
a(n) = (1 + n mod 2) * 3^floor(n/2).
a(n) = A087503(n) - A087503(n-1). (End)
a(n) = sqrt(3)*(2+sqrt(3))*(sqrt(3))^n/6 - sqrt(3)*(2-sqrt(3))*(-sqrt(3))^n/6. - Paul Barry, Sep 16 2003
From Reinhard Zumkeller, May 26 2008: (Start)
a(n) = A140740(n+2,2).
a(n+1) = a(n) + a(n - n mod 2). (End)
If p(i) = Fibonacci(i-3) and if A is the Hessenberg matrix of order n defined by A(i,j) = p(j-i+1), (i<=j), A(i,j)=-1, (i=j+1), and A(i,j)=0 otherwise. Then, for n>=1, a(n-1) = (-1)^n det A. - Milan Janjic, May 08 2010
a(n) = A182751(n) for n >= 2. - Jaroslav Krizek, Nov 27 2010
a(n) = Sum_{i=0..2^(n+1), i==0 (mod 3)} (-1)^A000120(i). - Vladimir Shevelev, May 16 2012
a(0)=1, a(1)=2, for n>=3, a(n)=3*a(n-2). - Vladimir Shevelev, May 21 2012
Sum_(n>=0) 1/a(n) = 9/4. - Alexander R. Povolotsky, Aug 24 2012
a(n) = sqrt(3*a(n-1)^2 + (-3)^(n-1)). - Richard R. Forberg, Sep 04 2013
a(n) = 2^((1-(-1)^n)/2)*3^((2*n-1+(-1)^n)/4). - Luce ETIENNE, Aug 11 2014
From Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 19 2015: (Start)
a(2*n) = A000244(n), a(2*n+1) = A008776(n).
For n > 0: a(n+1) = a(n) + if a(n) odd then min{a(n), a(n-1)} else max{a(n), a(n-1)}, see also A128588. (End)
E.g.f.: (7*cosh(sqrt(3)*x) + 4*sqrt(3)*sinh(sqrt(3)*x) - 4)/3. - Stefano Spezia, Feb 17 2022
Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n/a(n) = 3/4. - Amiram Eldar, Dec 02 2022

A068911 Number of n-step walks (each step +-1 starting from 0) which are never more than 2 or less than -2.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 18, 36, 54, 108, 162, 324, 486, 972, 1458, 2916, 4374, 8748, 13122, 26244, 39366, 78732, 118098, 236196, 354294, 708588, 1062882, 2125764, 3188646, 6377292, 9565938, 19131876, 28697814, 57395628, 86093442, 172186884, 258280326, 516560652

Offset: 0

Henry Bottomley, Mar 06 2002

From Johannes W. Meijer, May 29 2010: (Start)
a(n) is the number of ways White can force checkmate in exactly (n+1) moves, n >= 0, ignoring the fifty-move and the triple repetition rules, in the following chess position: White Ka1, Ra8, Bc1, Nb8, pawns a6, a7, b2, c6, d2, f6, g5 and h6; Black Ke8, Nh8, pawns b3, c7, d3, f7, g6 and h7. (After Noam D. Elkies, see link; diagram 5).
Counts all paths of length n, n >= 0, starting at the third node on the path graph P_5, see the Maple program. (End)
From Alec Jones, Feb 25 2016: (Start)
The a(n) are the n-th terms in a "Fibonacci snake" drawn on a rectilinear grid. The n-th term is computed as the sum of the previous terms in cells adjacent to the n-th cell (diagonals included). (This sequence excludes the first term of the snake.)
For example:
  1 ...  1      1  ...   1 4      1 4 6 ...  1 4 6       1 4 6   ...  and so on.
         1 ...  1 2      1 2 ...  1 2        1 2 12 ...  1 2 12 18 (End)
From Gus Wiseman, Oct 06 2023: (Start)
Also the number of subsets of {1..n} containing no two distinct elements summing to n. The a(0) = 1 through a(4) = 12 subsets are:
  {}  {}   {}     {}     {}
      {1}  {1}    {1}    {1}
           {2}    {2}    {2}
           {1,2}  {3}    {3}
                  {1,3}  {4}
                  {2,3}  {1,2}
                         {1,4}
                         {2,3}
                         {2,4}
                         {3,4}
                         {1,2,4}
                         {2,3,4}
For n+1 instead of n we have A038754, complement A167762.
Including twins gives A117855, complement A366131.
The complement is counted by A365544.
For all subsets (not just pairs) we have A365377, complement A365376. (End)

			The a(3) = 6 walks: (0,-1,-2,-1), (0,-1,0,-1), (0,-1,0,1), (0,1,0,-1), (0,1,0,1), (0,1,2,1). - _Gus Wiseman_, Oct 10 2023

Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..4191
F. Javier de Vega, An extension of Furstenberg's theorem of the infinitude of primes, arXiv:2003.13378 [math.NT], 2020.
Stoyan Dimitrov, Sorting by shuffling methods and a queue, arXiv:2103.04332 [math.CO], 2021.
Robert Dorward et al., A Generalization of Zeckendorf's Theorem via Circumscribed m-gons, arXiv:1508.07531 [math.NT], 2015. See Example 1.3 p. 4.
Noam D. Elkies, New Directions in Enumerative Chess Problems, arXiv:math/0508645 [math.CO], 2005; The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 11 (2), 2004-2005.
Sean A. Irvine, Walks on Graphs.
D. Panario, M. Sahin, Q. Wang, and W. Webb, General conditional recurrences, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 243, Sep 15 2014, Pages 220-231.
Noriaki Sannomiya, H. Katsura, and Y. Nakayama, Supersymmetry breaking and Nambu-Goldstone fermions with cubic dispersion, arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02285 [cond-mat.str-el], 2016-2017. See Table I, line 3.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,3).

Cf. A000007, A016116 (without initial term), A068912, A068913 for similar.
Equals A060647(n-1)+1.
Cf. also A028495, A038754, A048328, A078038, A124302, A306293.
First differences are A117855.
Cf. A004526, A004737, A008967, A046663, A088809, A365376, A365377, A365381, A365541, A365544, A366130.

[Floor((5-(-1)^n)*3^Floor(n/2)/3): n in [0..40]]; // Bruno Berselli, Feb 26 2016, after Charles R Greathouse IV

with(GraphTheory): G:= PathGraph(5): A:=AdjacencyMatrix(G): nmax:=34; for n from 0 to nmax do B(n):=A^n; a(n):=add(B(n)[3,k], k=1..5) od: seq(a(n), n=0..nmax); # Johannes W. Meijer, May 29 2010
# second Maple program:
a:= proc(n) a(n):= `if`(n<2, n+1, (4-irem(n, 2))/2*a(n-1)) end:
seq(a(n), n=0..40);  # Alois P. Heinz, Feb 03 2019

Join[{1},Transpose[NestList[{Last[#],3First[#]}&,{2,4},40]][[1]]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Oct 24 2011 *)
Table[Length[Select[Subsets[Range[n]],FreeQ[Total/@Subsets[#,{2}],n]&]],{n,0,15}] (* Gus Wiseman, Oct 06 2023 *)

a(n)=[4,6][n%2+1]*3^(n\2)\3 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Feb 26 2016

def A068911(n): return 3**(n>>1)<<1 if n&1 else (3**(n-1>>1)<<2 if n else 1) # Chai Wah Wu, Aug 30 2024

a(n) = A068913(2, n) = 2*A038754(n-1) = 3*a(n-2) = a(n-1)*a(n-2)/a(n-3) starting with a(0)=1, a(1)=2, a(2)=4 and a(3)=6.
For n>0: a(2n) = 4*3^(n-1) = 2*a(2n-1); a(2n+1) = 2*3^n = 3*a(2n)/2 = 2*a(2n)-A000079(n-2).
From Paul Barry, Feb 17 2004: (Start)
G.f.: (1+x)^2/(1-3x^2).
a(n) = 2*3^((n+1)/2)*((1-(-1)^n)/6 + sqrt(3)*(1+(-1)^n)/9) - (1/3)*0^n.
The sequence 0, 1, 2, 4, ... has a(n) = 2*3^(n/2)*((1+(-1)^n)/6 + sqrt(3)*(1-(-1)^n)/9) - (2/3)*0^n + (1/3)*Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n, k)*k*(-1)^k. (End)
a(n) = 2^((3 + (-1)^n)/2)*3^((2*n - 3 - (-1)^n)/4) - ((1 - (-1)^(2^n)))/6. - Luce ETIENNE, Aug 30 2014
For n > 2, indexing from 0, a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) if n is odd, a(n-1) + a(n-2) + a(n-3) if n is even. - Alec Jones, Feb 25 2016
a(n) = 2*a(n-1) if n is even, a(n-1) + a(n-2) if n is odd. - Vincenzo Librandi, Feb 26 2016
E.g.f.: (4*cosh(sqrt(3)*x) + 2*sqrt(3)*sinh(sqrt(3)*x) - 1)/3. - Stefano Spezia, Feb 17 2022

A278984 Array read by antidiagonals downwards: T(b,n) = number of words of length n over an alphabet of size b that are in standard order.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 8, 5, 2, 1, 1, 16, 14, 5, 2, 1, 1, 32, 41, 15, 5, 2, 1, 1, 64, 122, 51, 15, 5, 2, 1, 1, 128, 365, 187, 52, 15, 5, 2, 1, 1, 256, 1094, 715, 202, 52, 15, 5, 2, 1, 1, 512, 3281, 2795, 855, 203, 52, 15, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1024, 9842, 11051, 3845, 876, 203, 52, 15, 5, 2, 1

Offset: 1

Joerg Arndt and N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 05 2016

We study words made of letters from an alphabet of size b, where b >= 1. We assume the letters are labeled {1,2,3,...,b}. There are b^n possible words of length n.
We say that a word is in "standard order" if it has the property that whenever a letter i appears, the letter i-1 has already appeared in the word. This implies that all words begin with the letter 1.
Let X be the random variable that assigns to each permutation of {1,2,...,b} (with uniform distribution) its number of fixed points (as in A008290).  Then T(b,n) is the n-th moment about 0 of X, i.e., the expected value of X^n. - Geoffrey Critzer, Jun 23 2020

			The array begins:
1,.1,..1,...1,...1,...1,...1,....1..; b=1, A000012
1,.2,..4,...8,..16,..32,..64,..128..; b=2, A000079
1,.2,..5,..14,..41,.122,.365,.1094..; b=3, A007051 (A278985)
1,.2,..5,..15,..51,.187,.715,.2795..; b=4, A007581
1,.2,..5,..15,..52,.202,.855,.3845..; b=5, A056272
1,.2,..5,..15,..52,.203,.876,.4111..; b=6, A056273
...
The rows tend to A000110.

Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1275
Joerg Arndt and N. J. A. Sloane, Counting Words that are in "Standard Order"
Pengyu Liu and Jingzhou Na, Word Motifs and a Generalized Hamming Distance, Contemp. Math. (2025) Vol. 6, Issue 1, 1255-1264. See p. 1257.

Rows 1 through 16 of the array are: A000012, A000079, A007051 (or A124302), A007581 (or A124303), A056272, A056273, A099262, A099263, A164863, A164864, A203641-A203646.
The limit of the rows is A000110, the Bell numbers.
See A278985 for the words arising in row b=3.
Cf. A203647, A137855 (essentially same table).

with(combinat);
f1:=proc(L,b) local t1;i;
t1:=add(stirling2(L,i),i=1..b);
end:
Q1:=b->[seq(f1(L,b), L=1..20)]; # the rows of the array are Q1(1), Q1(2), Q1(3), ...

T[b_, n_] := Sum[StirlingS2[n, j], {j, 1, b}]; Table[T[b-n+1, n], {b, 1, 12}, {n, b, 1, -1}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 18 2017 *)

The number of words of length n over an alphabet of size b that are in standard order is Sum_{j = 1..b} Stirling2(n,j).

A001998 Bending a piece of wire of length n+1; walks of length n+1 on a tetrahedron; also non-branched catafusenes with n+2 condensed hexagons.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 4, 10, 25, 70, 196, 574, 1681, 5002, 14884, 44530, 133225, 399310, 1196836, 3589414, 10764961, 32291602, 96864964, 290585050, 871725625, 2615147350, 7845353476, 23535971854, 70607649841, 211822683802, 635467254244, 1906400965570, 5719200505225, 17157599124190

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

The wire stays in the plane, there are n bends, each is R,L or O; turning the wire over does not count as a new figure.
Equivalently, walks of n+1 steps on a tetrahedron, visiting n+2 vertices, with n "corners"; the symmetry group is S4, reversing a walk does not count as different. Simply interpret R,L,O as instructions to turn R, turn L, or retrace the last step. Walks are not self-avoiding.
Also, it appears that a(n) gives the number of equivalence classes of n-tuples of 0, 1 and 2, where two n-tuples are equivalent if one can be obtained from the other by a sequence of operations R and C, where R denotes reversal and C denotes taking the 2's complement (C(x)=2-x). This has been verified up to a(19)=290585050. Example: for n=3 there are ten equivalence classes {000, 222}, {001, 100, 122, 221}, {002, 022, 200, 220}, {010, 212}, {011, 110, 112, 211}, {012, 210}, {020, 202}, {021, 102, 120, 201}, {101, 121}, {111}, so a(3)=10. - John W. Layman, Oct 13 2009
There exists a bijection between chains of n+2 hexagons and the above described equivalence classes of n-tuples of 0,1, and 2. Namely, for a given chain of n+2 hexagons we take the sequence of the numbers of vertices of degree 2 (0, 1, or 2) between the consecutive contact vertices on one side of the chain; switching to the other side we obtain the 2's complement of this sequence; reversing the order of the hexagons, we obtain the reverse sequence. The inverse mapping is straightforward. For example, to a linear chain of 7 hexagons there corresponds the 5-tuple 11111. - Emeric Deutsch, Apr 22 2013
If we treat two wire bends (or walks, or tuples) related by turning over (or reversing) as different in any of the above-given interpretations of this sequence, we get A007051 (or A124302). Also, a(n-1) is the sum of first 3 terms in n-th row of A284949, see crossrefs therein. - Andrey Zabolotskiy, Sep 29 2017
a(n-1) is the number of color patterns (set partitions) in an unoriented row of length n using 3 or fewer colors (subsets). - Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018
From Allan Bickle, Jun 02 2022: (Start)
a(n) is the number of (unlabeled) 3-paths with n+6 vertices. (A 3-path with order n at least 5 can be constructed from a 4-clique by iteratively adding a new 3-leaf (vertex of degree 3) adjacent to an existing 3-clique containing an existing 3-leaf.)
Recurrences appear in the papers by Bickle, Eckhoff, and Markenzon et al. (End)
a(n) is also the number of distinct planar embeddings of the (n+1)-alkane graph (up to at least n=9, and likely for all n). - Eric W. Weisstein, May 21 2024

			There are 2 ways to bend a piece of wire of length 2 (bend it or not).
For n=4 and a(n-1)=10, the 6 achiral patterns are AAAA, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCA, and ABBC.  The 4 chiral pairs are AAAB-ABBB, AABA-ABAA, AABC-ABCC, and ABAC-ABCB. - _Robert A. Russell_, Oct 28 2018

A. T. Balaban, Enumeration of Cyclic Graphs, pp. 63-105 of A. T. Balaban, ed., Chemical Applications of Graph Theory, Ac. Press, 1976; see p. 75.
S. J. Cyvin, B. N. Cyvin, and J. Brunvoll, Enumeration of tree-like octagonal systems: catapolyoctagons, ACH Models in Chem. 134 (1997), 55-70.
M. R. Nester (1999). Mathematical investigations of some plant interaction designs. PhD Thesis. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. [See A056391 for pdf file of Chap. 2.]
R. C. Read, The Enumeration of Acyclic Chemical Compounds, pp. 25-61 of A. T. Balaban, ed., Chemical Applications of Graph Theory, Ac. Press, 1976. [I think this reference does not mention this sequence. - N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 10 2006]
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..2092 (terms 0..500 from T. D. Noe)
A. T. Balaban, J. Brunvoll, B. N. Cyvin, and S. J. Cyvin, Enumeration of branched catacondensed benzenoid hydrocarbons and their numbers of Kekulé structures, Tetrahedron 44(1) (1988), 221-228. See Eq. (6), p. 223.
A. T. Balaban and F. Harary, Chemical graphs V: enumeration and proposed nomenclature of benzenoid cata-condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Tetrahedron 24 (1968), 2505-2516.
Christian Barrientos and Sarah Minion, On the Graceful Cartesian Product of Alpha-Trees, Theory and Applications of Graphs, Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 3, 2017. (It mentions this sequence on p. 7.)
L. W. Beineke and R. E. Pippert, On the enumeration of planar trees of hexagons, Glasgow Math. J., 15 (1974), 131-147.
L. W. Beineke and R. E. Pippert, On the enumeration of planar trees of hexagons, Glasgow Math. J., 15 (1974), 131-147 [annotated scanned copy].
Allan Bickle, How to Count k-Paths, J. Integer Sequences, 25 (2022) Article 22.5.6.
Allan Bickle, A Survey of Maximal k-degenerate Graphs and k-Trees, Theory and Applications of Graphs 0 1 (2024) Article 5.
S. J. Cyvin, B. N. Cyvin, and J. Brunvoll, Isomer enumeration of some polygonal systems representing polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons, Journal of Molecular structure 376 (Issues 1-3) (1996), 495-505. See Table 2 on p. 501.
S. J. Cyvin, B. N. Cyvin, and J. Brunvoll, Unbranched catacondensed polygonal systems containing hexagons and tetragons, Croatica Chem. Acta, 69 (1996), 757-774.
J. Eckhoff, Extremal interval graphs, J. Graph Theory 17 1 (1993), 117-127.
R. M. Foster, Solution to Problem E185, Amer. Math. Monthly, 44 (1937), 50-51.
R. M. Foster, Solution to Problem E185, Amer. Math. Monthly, 44 (1937), 50-51 [annotated scanned copy].
F. Harary and R. W. Robinson, Tapeworms, Unpublished manuscript, circa 1973. (Annotated scanned copy)
Thomas M. Liggett and Wenpin Tang, One-dependent hard-core processes and colorings of the star graph, arXiv:1804.06877 [math.PR], 2018.
L. Markenzon, O. Vernet, and P. R. da Costa Pereira, A clique-difference encoding scheme for labelled k-path graphs, Discrete Appl. Math. 156 (2008), 3216-3222.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
Gyula Tasi and Fujio Mizukami, Quantum algebraic-combinatoric study of the conformational properties of n-alkanes, J. Math. Chemistry, 25, 1999, 55-64 (see p. 60).
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Alkane Graph.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Planar Embedding.
Index entries for sequences obtained by enumerating foldings
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,0,-12,9).

Cf. A036359, A002216, A005963, A000228, A001997, A001444, A038766, A007051.
Column 3 of A320750, offset by one. Column k = 0 of A323942, offset by two.
Cf. A124302 (oriented), A107767 (chiral), A182522 (achiral), with varying offsets.
Column 3 of A320750.
The numbers of unlabeled k-paths for k = 2..7 are given in A005418, A001998, A056323, A056324, A056325, and A345207, respectively.
The sequences above converge to A103293(n+1).

a:=[];; for n in [2..45] do if n mod 2 =0 then Add(a,((3^((n-2)/2)+1)/2)^2); else Add(a,  3^((n-3)/2)+(1/4)*(3^(n-2)+1)); fi; od; a; # Muniru A Asiru, Oct 28 2018

A001998 := proc(n) if n = 0 then 1 elif n mod 2 = 1 then (1/4)*(3^n+4*3^((n-1)/2)+1) else (1/4)*(3^n+2*3^(n/2)+1); fi; end;
A001998:=(-1+3*z+2*z**2-8*z**3+3*z**4)/(z-1)/(3*z-1)/(3*z**2-1); # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation; gives sequence with an extra leading 1

a[n_?OddQ] := (1/4)*(3^n + 4*3^((n - 1)/2) + 1); a[n_?EvenQ] := (1/4)*(3^n + 2*3^(n/2) + 1); Table[a[n], {n, 0, 27}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jan 25 2013, from formula *)
LinearRecurrence[{4,0,-12,9},{1,2,4,10},30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 10 2013 *)
Ach[n_, k_] := Ach[n, k] = If[n<2, Boole[n==k && n>=0], k Ach[n-2,k] + Ach[n-2,k-1] + Ach[n-2,k-2]] (* A304972 *)
k=3; Table[Sum[StirlingS2[n,j]+Ach[n,j],{j,k}]/2,{n,40}] (* Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018 *)

Vec((1-2*x-4*x^2+6*x^3)/((1-x)*(1-3*x)*(1-3*x^2)) + O(x^50)) \\ Colin Barker, May 15 2016

a(n) = if n mod 2 = 0 then ((3^((n-2)/2)+1)/2)^2 else 3^((n-3)/2)+(1/4)*(3^(n-2)+1).
G.f.: (1-2*x-4*x^2+6*x^3) / ((1-x)*(1-3*x)*(1-3*x^2)). - Corrected by Colin Barker, May 15 2016
a(n) = 4*a(n-1)-12*a(n-3)+9*a(n-4), with a(0)=1, a(1)=2, a(2)=4, a(3)=10. - Harvey P. Dale, Apr 10 2013
a(n) = (1+3^n+3^(1/2*(-1+n))*(2-2*(-1)^n+sqrt(3)+(-1)^n*sqrt(3)))/4. - Colin Barker, May 15 2016
E.g.f.: (2*sqrt(3)*sinh(sqrt(3)*x) + 3*exp(2*x)*cosh(x) + 3*cosh(sqrt(3)*x))/6. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, May 15 2016
From Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018: (Start)
a(n-1) = (A124302(n) + A182522(n)) / 2 = A124302(n) - A107767(n-1) = A107767(n-1) + A182522(n).
a(n-1) = Sum_{j=1..k} (S2(n,j) + Ach(n,j)) / 2, where k=3 is the maximum number of colors, S2 is the Stirling subset number A008277, and Ach(n,k) = [n>=0 & n<2 & n==k] + [n>1]*(k*Ach(n-2,k) + Ach(n-2,k-1) + Ach(n-2,k-2)).
a(n-1) = A057427(n) + A056326(n) + A056327(n). (End)
a(2*n) = A007051(n)^2; a(2*n+1) = A007051(n)*A007051(n+1). - Todd Simpson, Mar 25 2024

Offset and Maple code corrected by Colin Mallows, Nov 12 1999

Term added by Robert A. Russell, Oct 30 2018

A211216 Expansion of (1-8x+21x^2-20x^3+5x^4)/(1-9x+28x^2-35x^3+15x^4-x^5).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, 1430, 4862, 16795, 58766, 207783, 740924, 2660139, 9603089, 34818270, 126676726, 462125928, 1689438278, 6186432967, 22682699779, 83249302471, 305773834030, 1123771473120, 4131947428007, 15197952958467, 55915691993228

Offset: 0

Bruno Berselli, May 11 2012

In the paper of Kitaev, Remmel and Tiefenbruck (see the Links section), Q_(132)^(k,0,0,0)(x,0) represents a generating function depending on k and x.
For successive values of k we have:
k=1, the g.f. of A000012: 1/(1-x);
k=2,      "      A011782: (1-x)/(1-2*x);
k=3,      "      A001519: (1-2*x)/(1-3*x+x^2);
k=4,      "      A124302: (1-3*x+x^2)/(1-4*x+3*x^2);
k=5,      "      A080937: (1-4*x+3*x^2)/(1-5*x+6*x^2-x^3);
k=6,      "      A024175: (1-5*x+6*x^2-x^3)/(1-6*x+10*x^2-4*x^3);
k=7,      "      A080938: (1-6*x+10*x^2-4*x^3)/(1-7*x+15*x^2-10*x^3+x^4);
k=8,      "      A033191: (1-7*x+15*x^2-10*x^3+x^4)/(1-8*x+21*x^2
                           -20*x^3+5*x^4).
This sequence corresponds to the case k=9.
We observe that the coefficients of numerators and denominators are in A115139.
In general, Q_(132)^(k,0,0,0)(x,0) is the generating function for Dyck paths whose maximum height is less than or equal to k; also, it is the generating function of rooted binary trees T which have no nodes 'eta' such that there are >= k left edges on the path from 'eta' to the root of T (see cited paper, page 11).

Bruno Berselli, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Sergey Kitaev, Jeffrey Remmel and Mark Tiefenbruck, Marked mesh patterns in 132-avoiding permutations I, arXiv:1201.6243v1 [math.CO], 2012 (page 10, Corollary 3).
K. Mészáros, A. H. Morales, and J. Striker, On flow polytopes, order polytopes, and certain faces of the alternating sign matrix polytope, arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03357 [math.CO], 2015-2019.
László Németh and László Szalay, Sequences Involving Square Zig-Zag Shapes, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 24 (2021), Article 21.5.2.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (9,-28,35,-15,1).

Cf. A000108, A001519, A011782, A024175, A033191, A080937, A080938, A124302.

Cf. square array in A080934.

m:=28; R:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), m); Coefficients(R!((1-8*x+21*x^2-20*x^3+5*x^4)/(1-9*x+28*x^2-35*x^3+15*x^4-x^5)));

CoefficientList[Series[(1 - 8 x + 21 x^2 - 20 x^3 + 5 x^4)/(1 - 9 x + 28 x^2 - 35 x^3 + 15 x^4 - x^5), {x, 0, 27}], x]

Vec((1-8*x+21*x^2-20*x^3+5*x^4)/(1-9*x+28*x^2-35*x^3+15*x^4-x^5)+O(x^28))

G.f.: (1-3*x+x^2)*(1-5*x+5*x^2)/(1-9*x+28*x^2-35*x^3+15*x^4-x^5).
G.f.: 1/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x/(1-x))))))))). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 14 2013
a(n) = A000108(n) + Sum_{k=1..n} (4*binomial(2*n, n+11*k) - binomial(2*n+2, n+11*k+1)). - Greg Dresden, Jan 28 2023

A080934 Square array read by antidiagonals of number of Catalan paths (nonnegative, starting and ending at 0, step +/-1) of 2n steps with all values less than or equal to k.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 8, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 13, 16, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 34, 32, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 41, 89, 64, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 122, 233, 128, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 131, 365, 610, 256, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 417, 1094, 1597, 512, 1, 0

Offset: 0

Henry Bottomley, Feb 25 2003

Number of permutations in S_n avoiding both 132 and 123...k.
T(n,k) = number of rooted ordered trees on n nodes of depth <= k. Also, T(n,k) = number of {1,-1} sequences of length 2n summing to 0 with all partial sums are >=0 and <= k. Also, T(n,k) = number of closed walks of length 2n on a path of k nodes starting from (and ending at) a node of degree 1. - Mitch Harris, Mar 06 2004
Also T(n,k) = k-th coefficient in expansion of the rational function R(n), where R(1) = 1, R(n+1) = 1/(1-x*R(n)), which means also that lim(n->inf,R(n)) = g.f. of Catalan numbers (A000108) wherever it has real value (see Mansour article). - Clark Kimberling and Ralf Stephan, May 26 2004
Row n of the array gives Taylor series expansion of F_n(t)/F_{n+1}(t), where F_n(t) are the Fibonacci polynomials defined in A259475 [Kreweras, 1970]. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jul 03 2015

			T(3,2) = 4 since the paths of length 2*3 (7 points) with all values less than or equal to 2 can take the routes 0101010, 0101210, 0121010 or 0121210, but not 0123210.
From _Peter Luschny_, Aug 27 2014: (Start)
Trees with n nodes and height <= h:
h\n  1  2  3  4   5   6    7    8     9    10     11
---------------------------------------------------------
[ 1] 1, 0, 0, 0,  0,  0,   0,   0,    0,    0,     0, ...  A063524
[ 2] 1, 1, 1, 1,  1,  1,   1,   1,    1,    1,     1, ...  A000012
[ 3] 1, 1, 2, 4,  8, 16,  32,  64,  128,  256,   512, ...  A011782
[ 4] 1, 1, 2, 5, 13, 34,  89, 233,  610, 1597,  4181, ...  A001519
[ 5] 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 41, 122, 365, 1094, 3281,  9842, ...  A124302
[ 6] 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 131, 417, 1341, 4334, 14041, ...  A080937
[ 7] 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 428, 1416, 4744, 16016, ...  A024175
[ 8] 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, 1429, 4846, 16645, ...  A080938
[ 9] 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, 1430, 4861, 16778, ...  A033191
[10] 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, 1430, 4862, 16795, ...  A211216
---------------------------------------------------------
The generating functions are listed in A211216. Note that the values up to the main diagonal are the Catalan numbers A000108.
(End)

Alois P. Heinz, Antidiagonals n = 0..140, flattened
Kassie Archer, Ethan Borsh, Jensen Bridges, Christina Graves, and Millie Jeske, Pattern-restricted cyclic permutations with a pattern-restricted cycle form, arXiv:2408.15000 [math.CO], 2024. See also Enum. Comb. Appl. (2025) Vol. 5, No. 1, Art. No. S2R3. See p. 7.
Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Donald E. Knuth, and Stephen O. Rice, The Average Height of Planted Plane Trees, Graph Theory and Computing, (1972) 15-22.
Yann Dijoux, Chebyshev polynomials involved in the Householder's method for square roots, arXiv:2501.04703 [math.GM], 2024. Mentions this sequence.
Andrzej Dudek, Jarosław Grytczuk, and Andrzej Ruciński, Largest bipartite sub-matchings of a random ordered matching or a problem with socks, arXiv:2402.02223 [math.CO], 2024.
Nickolas Hein and Jia Huang, Variations of the Catalan numbers from some nonassociative binary operations, arXiv:1807.04623 [math.CO], 2018.
Aleksandar Ilic and Andreja Ilic, On the number of restricted Dyck paths, Filomat 25:3 (2011), 191-201; DOI: 10.2298/FIL1103191I.
Anthony Joseph and Polyxeni Lamprou, A new interpretation of Catalan numbers, arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00406 [math.CO], 2015.
Myrto Kallipoliti, Robin Sulzgruber, and Eleni Tzanaki, Patterns in Shi tableaux and Dyck paths, arXiv:2006.06949 [math.CO], 2020.
Sergey Kitaev, Jeffrey Remmel, and Mark Tiefenbruck, Marked mesh patterns in 132-avoiding permutations I, arXiv:1201.6243v1 [math.CO], 2012 (page 10, Corollary 3).
Christian Krattenthaler, Permutations with restricted patterns and Dyck paths, arXiv:math/0002200 [math.CO], 2000.
Germain Kreweras, Sur les éventails de segments, Cahiers du Bureau Universitaire de Recherche Opérationelle, Cahier no. 15, Paris, 1970, pp. 3-41. See page 38.
Germain Kreweras, Sur les éventails de segments, Cahiers du Bureau Universitaire de Recherche Opérationnelle, Institut de Statistique, Université de Paris, #15 (1970), 3-41. [Annotated scanned copy]
Erkko Lehtonen and Tamás Waldhauser, Associative spectra of graph algebras I. Foundations, undirected graphs, antiassociative graphs, arXiv:2011.07621 [math.CO], 2020. See also J. of Algebraic Combinatorics (2021) Vol. 53, 613-638.
Toufik Mansour, Restricted even permutations and Chebyshev polynomials, arXiv:math/0302014 [math.CO], 2003.
Toufik Mansour and Alek Vainshtein, Restricted permutations, continued fractions and Chebyshev polynomials, arXiv:math/9912052 [math.CO], 1999-2000.
Dimana Miroslavova Pramatarova, Investigating the Periodicity of Weighted Catalan Numbers and Generalizing Them to Higher Dimensions, MIT Res. Sci. Instit. (2025). See pp. 5-6.
Thomas Tunstall, Tim Rogers, and Wolfram Möbius, Assisted percolation of slow-spreading mutants in heterogeneous environments, arXiv:2303.01579 [q-bio.PE], 2023.
Vince White, Enumeration of Lattice Paths with Restrictions, (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2799. See pp. 20, 25.

Cf. A000108, A079214, A080935, A080936. Rows include A000012, A057427, A040000 (offset), columns include (essentially) A000007, A000012, A011782, A001519, A007051, A080937, A024175, A080938, A033191, A211216. Main diagonal is A000108.

Cf. A094718 (involutions). Cf. also A259475.

# As a triangular array:
b:= proc(x, y, k) option remember; `if`(y>min(k, x) or y<0, 0,
      `if`(x=0, 1, b(x-1, y-1, k)+ b(x-1, y+1, k)))
    end:
A:= (n, k)-> b(2*n, 0, k):
seq(seq(A(n, d-n), n=0..d), d=0..12);  # Alois P. Heinz, Aug 06 2012
# As a square array:
A := proc(n,k) option remember; local j; if n = 1 then 1 elif k = 1 then 0 else add(A(n-j,k)*A(j,k-1), j=1..n-1) fi end:
linalg[matrix](10, 12, (n,k) -> A(k,n)); # Peter Luschny, Aug 27 2014

A[n_, k_] := A[n, k] = Which[n == 1, 1, k == 1, 0, True, Sum[A[n-j, k]*A[j, k-1], {j, 1, n-1}]]; Table[A[k-n+1, n], {k, 1, 13}, {n, k, 1, -1}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 19 2015, after Peter Luschny *)

A(N, K) = {
  my(m = matrix(N, K, n, k, n==1));
  for (n = 2, N,
  for (k = 2, K,
       m[n,k] = sum(i = 1, n-1, m[n-i,k] * m[i,k-1])));
  return(m);
}
A(11,10)~  \\ Gheorghe Coserea, Jan 13 2016

T(n, k) = Sum_{0A080935(n, k) = T(n, k-1)+A080936(n, k); for k>=n T(n, k) = A000108(n).
T(n, k) = 2^(2n+1)/(k+2) * Sum_{i=1..k+1} (sin(Pi*i/(k+2))*cos(Pi*i/(k+2))^n)^2 for n>=1. - Herbert Kociemba, Apr 28 2004
G.f. of n-th row: B(n)/B(n+1) where B(j)=[(1+sqrt(1-4x))/2]^j-[(1-sqrt(1-4x))/2]^j.

A048328 Numbers that are repdigits in base 3.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 26, 40, 80, 121, 242, 364, 728, 1093, 2186, 3280, 6560, 9841, 19682, 29524, 59048, 88573, 177146, 265720, 531440, 797161, 1594322, 2391484, 4782968, 7174453, 14348906, 21523360, 43046720, 64570081, 129140162, 193710244, 387420488, 581130733

Offset: 0

Patrick De Geest, Feb 15 1999

Case for base 2 see A000225: 2^n - 1.

If the sequence b(n) represents the number of paths of length n, n >= 1, starting at node 1 and ending at nodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the path graph P_5 then a(n-1) = b(n) - 1. - Johannes W. Meijer, May 29 2010

Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Repdigit.
Index entries for 3-automatic sequences.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,4,0,-3).

Bisections: A024023 and A003462.

Cf. A000225, A010785, A028987, A028988, A033016, A038754, A068911, A124302, A214369.

nmax := 35; a(0) := 0: for n from 1 to nmax do a(2*n) := a(2*n-2) + 2*3^(n-1); od: a(1) := 1: for n from 1 to nmax do a(2*n+1) := 1*a(2*n-1) + 3^n; od: seq(a(n), n=0..nmax);
# End program 1
with(GraphTheory): G := PathGraph(5): A:= AdjacencyMatrix(G): nmax := nmax; for n from 1 to nmax+1 do B(n) := A^n; b(n) := add(B(n)[1, k], k=1..4); a1(n-1) := b(n)-1; od: seq(a1(n), n=0..nmax);
# End program 2
# From Johannes W. Meijer, May 29 2010, revised Sep 23 2012
# third Maple program:
a:= n->(<<0|1>, <-3|4>>^iquo(n, 2, 'r').`if`(r=0, <<0, 2>>, <<1, 4>>))[1, 1]:
seq (a(n), n=0..60);  # Alois P. Heinz, Sep 23 2012

Rest[FromDigits[#, 3]&/@Flatten[Table[{PadRight[{1}, n, 1], PadRight[{2}, n, 2]}, {n, 0, 20}], 1]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 03 2011 *)

a(n)=([0,1,0,0; 0,0,1,0; 0,0,0,1; -3,0,4,0]^n*[0;1;2;4])[1,1] \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 07 2015

G.f.: (2*x^2+x)/(1-4*x^2+3*x^4). - Alois P. Heinz, Sep 23 2012
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = 3 * A214369 = 2.04646050781571420028... - Amiram Eldar, Jan 21 2022
a(n) = (3^(n/2)*(sqrt(3) + 2 - (-1)^n*(sqrt(3) - 2)) - 3 - (-1)^n)/4. - Stefano Spezia, Feb 18 2022

A056241 Triangle T(n,k) = number of k-part order-consecutive partitions of n (1<=k<=n).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 6, 6, 1, 1, 10, 19, 10, 1, 1, 15, 45, 45, 15, 1, 1, 21, 90, 141, 90, 21, 1, 1, 28, 161, 357, 357, 161, 28, 1, 1, 36, 266, 784, 1107, 784, 266, 36, 1, 1, 45, 414, 1554, 2907, 2907, 1554, 414, 45, 1, 1, 55, 615, 2850, 6765, 8953, 6765, 2850, 615, 55

Offset: 1

Colin Mallows, Aug 23 2000

Forms the even-indexed trinomial coefficients (A027907). Matrix inverse is A104027. - Paul D. Hanna, Feb 26 2005

Subtriangle (for 1<=k<=n) of triangle defined by [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...] DELTA [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...] where DELTA is the operator defined in A084938. - Philippe Deléham, Oct 29 2006

			Triangle begins:
  1;
  1,1;
  1,3,1;
  1,6,6,1;
  1,10,19,10,1;
  ...
Triangle (0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0...) DELTA (1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, ...) begins:
  1;
  0, 1;
  0, 1, 1;
  0, 1, 3, 1;
  0, 1, 6, 6, 1;
  0, 1, 10, 19, 10, 1;
  0, 1, 15, 45, 45, 15, 1;
  0, 1, 21, 90, 141, 90, 21, 1;
  ... - _Philippe Deléham_, Mar 27 2014

Jean-Luc Baril, Pamela E. Harris, and José L. Ramírez, Flattened Catalan Words, arXiv:2405.05357 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 6.
Paul Barry, Jacobsthal Decompositions of Pascal's Triangle, Ternary Trees, and Alternating Sign Matrices, Journal of Integer Sequences, 19, 2016, #16.3.5.
Karl Dilcher and Larry Ericksen, Polynomials and algebraic curves related to certain binary and b-ary overpartitions, arXiv:2405.12024 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 7.
F. K. Hwang and C. L. Mallows, Enumerating nested and consecutive partitions, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 70 (1995), no. 2, 323-333.

Columns are A000217, A005712, A005714, A005716.

Cf. A027907, A104027, A117569, A124302.

t[n_, k_] := Sum[ Binomial[n, j]*Binomial[n-j, 2*(k-j)], {j, 0, n}]; Flatten[ Table[t[n, k], {n, 0, 10}, {k, 0, n}]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 11 2011, after Paul Barry *)

PARI
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T(n,k)=if(nPaul D. Hanna
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T(n, k) = Sum_{j=0..k-1} C(n-1, 2k-j-2)*C(2k-j-2, j).
G.f.: A(x, y) = (1 - x*(1+y))/(1 - 2*x*(1+y) + x^2*(1+y+y^2)) (offset=0). - Paul D. Hanna, Feb 26 2005
Sum_{k, 1<=k<=n}T(n,k)=A124302(n). Sum_{k, 1<=k<=n}(-1)^(n-k)*T(n,k)=A117569(n). - Philippe Deléham, Oct 29 2006
From Paul Barry, Sep 28 2010: (Start)
G.f.: 1/(1-x-xy-x^2y/(1-x-xy)).
E.g.f.: exp((1+y)x)*cosh(sqrt(y)*x).
T(n,k) = Sum_{j=0..n} C(n,j)*C(n-j,2*(k-j)). (End)
T(n,k) = 2*T(n-1,k) + 2*T(n-1,k-1) - T(n-2,k) - T(n-2,k-1) - T(n-2,k-2), T(1,1) = T(2,1) = T(2,2) = 1, T(n,k) = 0 if k<1 or if k>n. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 27 2014

More terms from James Sellers, Aug 25 2000

More terms from Paul D. Hanna, Feb 26 2005

A182522 a(0) = 1; thereafter a(2n + 1) = 3^n, a(2n + 2) = 2 * 3^n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54, 81, 162, 243, 486, 729, 1458, 2187, 4374, 6561, 13122, 19683, 39366, 59049, 118098, 177147, 354294, 531441, 1062882, 1594323, 3188646, 4782969, 9565938, 14348907, 28697814, 43046721, 86093442, 129140163, 258280326, 387420489

Offset: 0

Michael Somos, May 03 2012

Row sums of triangle in A123149. - Philippe Deléham, May 04 2012
This is simply the classic sequence A038754 prefixed by a 1. - N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 23 2017
Binomial transform is A057960.
Range of row n of the circular Pascal array of order 6. - Shaun V. Ault, May 30 2014
a(n) is also the number of achiral color patterns in a row or cycle of length n using three or fewer colors. Two color patterns are the same if we permute the colors, so ABCAB=BACBA. For a cycle, we can rotate the colors, so ABCAB=CABAB. A row is achiral if it is the same as some color permutation of its reverse. Thus the reversal of ABCAB is BACBA, which is equivalent to ABCAB when we permute A and B. A cycle is achiral if it is the same as some rotation of some color permutation of its reverse. Thus CABAB reversed is BABAC. We can permute A and B to get ABABC and then rotate to get CABAB, so CABAB is achiral. It is interesting that the number of achiral color patterns is the same for rows and cycles. - Robert A. Russell, Mar 10 2018
Also, the number of walks of length n on the graph 0--1--2--3--4 starting at vertex 0. - Sean A. Irvine, Jun 03 2025

			G.f. = 1 + x + 2*x^2 + 3*x^3 + 6*x^4 + 9*x^5 + 18*x^6 + 27*x^7 + 54*x^8 + ...
From _Robert A. Russell_, Mar 10 2018: (Start)
For a(4) = 6, the achiral color patterns for rows are AAAA, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABBC, and ABCA.  Note that for cycles AABB=ABBA and ABBC=ABCA.  The achiral patterns for cycles are AAAA, AAAB, AABB, ABAB, ABAC, and ABBC.  Note that AAAB and ABAC are not achiral rows.
For a(5) = 9, the achiral color patterns (for both rows and cycles) are AAAAA, AABAA, ABABA, ABBBA, AABCC, ABACA, ABBBC, ABCAB, and ABCBA. (End)

G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Shaun V. Ault and Charles Kicey, Counting paths in corridors using circular Pascal arrays, arXiv:1407.2197 [math.CO], 2014.
Shaun V. Ault and Charles Kicey, Counting paths in corridors using circular Pascal arrays, Discrete Mathematics, Volume 332, October 2014, Pages 45-54.
Daniel Birmajer, Juan B. Gil, Jordan O. Tirrell, and Michael D. Weiner, Pattern-avoiding stabilized-interval-free permutations, arXiv:2306.03155 [math.CO], 2023.
Johann Cigler, Some remarks and conjectures related to lattice paths in strips along the x-axis, arXiv:1501.04750 [math.CO], 2015-2016.
Johann Cigler, Recurrences for certain sequences of binomial sums in terms of (generalized) Fibonacci and Lucas polynomials, arXiv:2212.02118 [math.NT], 2022.
Sean A. Irvine, Walks on Graphs.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,3).

Cf. A038754 (essentially the same sequence).
Cf. A008277, A052551, A057427, A057960.
Cf. A123149, A140735, A293181, A304973.
Also row sums of triangle in A169623.
Column 3 of A305749.
Cf. A124302 (oriented), A001998 (unoriented), A107767 (chiral), for rows, varying offsets.
Cf. A002076 (oriented), A056353 (unoriented), A320743 (chiral), for cycles.

I:=[1,1,2]; [n le 3 select I[n] else 3*Self(n-2): n in [1..40]]; // Bruno Berselli, Mar 19 2013

Join[{1}, RecurrenceTable[{a[1]==1, a[2]==2, a[n]==3 a[n-2]}, a, {n, 40}]] (* Bruno Berselli, Mar 19 2013 *)
CoefficientList[Series[(1+x-x^2)/(1-3*x^2), {x,0,50}], x] (* G. C. Greubel, Apr 14 2017 *)
Table[If[EvenQ[n], StirlingS2[(n+6)/2,3] - 4 StirlingS2[(n+4)/2,3] + 5 StirlingS2[(n+2)/2,3] - 2 StirlingS2[n/2,3], StirlingS2[(n+5)/2,3] - 3 StirlingS2[(n+3)/2,3] + 2 StirlingS2[(n+1)/2,3]], {n,0,40}] (* Robert A. Russell, Oct 21 2018 *)
Join[{1},Table[If[EvenQ[n], 2 3^((n-2)/2), 3^((n-1)/2)],{n,40}]] (* Robert A. Russell, Oct 28 2018 *)

makelist(if n=0 then 1 else (1+mod(n-1,2))*3^floor((n-1)/2), n, 0, 40); /* Bruno Berselli, Mar 19 2013 */

{a(n) = if( n<1, n==0, n--; (n%2 + 1) * 3^(n \ 2))}

my(x='x+O('x^50)); Vec((1+x-x^2)/(1-3*x^2)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Apr 14 2017

def A182522(n): return (3 -(3-2*sqrt(3))*((n+1)%2))*3^((n-3)/2) + int(n==0)/3
[A182522(n) for n in range(41)] # G. C. Greubel, Jul 17 2023

G.f.: (1 + x - x^2) / (1 - 3*x^2).
Expansion of 1 / (1 - x / (1 - x / (1 + x / (1 + x)))) in powers of x.
a(n+1) = A038754(n).
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} A123149(n,k). - Philippe Deléham, May 04 2012
a(n) = (3-(1+(-1)^n)*(3-2*sqrt(3))/2)*sqrt(3)^(n-3) for n>0, a(0)=1. - Bruno Berselli, Mar 19 2013
a(0) = 1, a(1) = 1, a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) if n is odd, and a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) + a(n-3) if n is even. - Jon Perry, Mar 19 2013
For odd n = 2m-1, a(2m-1) = T(m,1)+T(m,2)+T(m,3) for triangle T(m,k) of A140735; for even n = 2m, a(2m) = T(m,1)+T(m,2)+T(m,3) for triangle T(m,k) of A293181. - Robert A. Russell, Mar 10 2018
From Robert A. Russell, Oct 21 2018: (Start)
a(2m) = S2(m+3,3) - 4*S2(m+2,3) + 5*S2(m+1,3) - 2*S2(m,3).
a(2m-1) = S2(m+2,3) - 3*S2(m+1,3) + 2*S2(m,3), where S2(n,k) is the Stirling subset number A008277.
a(n) = 2*A001998(n-1) - A124302(n) = A124302(n) - 2*A107767(n-1) = A001998(n-1) - A107767(n-1).
a(n) = 2*A056353(n) - A002076(n) = A002076(n) - 2*A320743(n) = A056353(n) - A320743(n).
a(n) = A057427(n) + A052551(n-2) + A304973(n). (End)

Edited by Bruno Berselli, Mar 19 2013

Definition simplified by N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 23 2017

A320955 Square array read by ascending antidiagonals: A(n, k) (n >= 0, k >= 0) = Sum_{j=0..n-1} (!j/j!)*((n - j)^k/(n - j)!) if k > 0 and 1 if k = 0. Here !n denotes the subfactorial of n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 8, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 16, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 41, 32, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 51, 122, 64, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 187, 365, 128, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 202, 715, 1094, 256, 1, 0

Offset: 0

Peter Luschny, Nov 05 2018

Arndt and Sloane (see the link and A278984) identify the sequence to give "the number of words of length n over an alphabet of size b that are in standard order" and provide the formula Sum_{j = 1..b} Stirling_2(n, j) assuming b >= 1 and j >= 1. Compared to the array as defined here this misses the first row and the first column of our array.
The method used here is the special case of a general method described in A320956 applied to the function exp. For applications to other functions see the cross references.
A(k,n) is the number of color patterns (set partitions) for an oriented row of length n using up to k colors (subsets). Two color patterns are equivalent if the colors are permuted. For A(3,4) = 14, the six achiral patterns are AAAA, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABBC, and ABCA; the eight chiral patterns are the four chiral pairs AAAB-ABBB, AABA-ABAA, AABC-ABCC, and ABAC-ABCB. - Robert A. Russell, Nov 10 2018

			Array starts:
n\k   0  1  2  3   4   5    6    7     8      9  ...
----------------------------------------------------
[0]   1, 0, 0, 0,  0,  0,   0,   0,    0,     0, ...  A000007
[1]   1, 1, 1, 1,  1,  1,   1,   1,    1,     1, ...  A000012
[2]   1, 1, 2, 4,  8, 16,  32,  64,  128,   256, ...  A011782
[3]   1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 41, 122, 365, 1094,  3281, ...  A124302
[4]   1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 51, 187, 715, 2795, 11051, ...  A124303
[5]   1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 202, 855, 3845, 18002, ...  A056272
[6]   1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, 876, 4111, 20648, ...  A056273, ?A284727
[7]   1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, 877, 4139, 21110, ...
[8]   1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, 877, 4140, 21146, ...
[9]   1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, 877, 4140, 21147, ...
----------------------------------------------------
Seen as a triangle given by the descending antidiagonals:
[0]             1
[1]            0, 1
[2]          0, 1, 1
[3]        0, 1, 1, 1
[4]       0, 1, 2, 1, 1
[5]     0, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1
[6]    0, 1, 8, 5, 2, 1, 1
[7]  0, 1, 16, 14, 5, 2, 1, 1

Joerg Arndt and N. J. A. Sloane, Counting Words that are in "Standard Order"

Cf. A008290, A000110, A137650, A211561, A000240, A000387, A000449, A103816/A053556.
Cf. A124302, A124303, A056272, A056273, A284727, A278984.
Antidiagonal sums (and row sums of the triangle): A320964.
Cf. this sequence (exp), A320962 (log(x+1)), A320956 (sec+tan), A320958 (arcsin), A320959 (arctanh).
Cf. A320750 (unoriented), A320751 (chiral), A305749 (achiral).

A := (n, k) -> if k = 0 then 1 else add(A008290(n, n-j)*(n-j)^k, j=0..n-1)/n! fi:
seq(lprint(seq(A(n, k), k=0..9)), n=0..9); # Prints the array row-wise.
seq(seq(A(n-k, k), k=0..n), n=0..11); # Gives the array as listed.

T[n_, 0] := 1; T[n_, k_] := Sum[(Subfactorial[j]/Factorial[j])((n - j)^k/(n - j)!), {j, 0, n - 1}]; Table[T[n - k, k], {n, 0, 11}, {k, 0, n}] // Flatten
Table[Sum[StirlingS2[k, j], {j, 0, n-k}], {n, 0, 11}, {k, 0, n}] // Flatten (* Robert A. Russell, Nov 10 2018 *)

A(n, k) = (1/n!)*Sum_{j=0..n-1} A008290(n, n-j)*(n-j)^k if k > 0.
If one drops the special case A(n, 0) = 1 from the definition then column 0 becomes Sum_{k=0..n} (-1)^k/k! = A103816(n)/A053556(n).
Row n is given for k >= 1 by a_n(k), where
a_0(k) = 0^k/0!.
a_1(k) = 1^k/1!.
a_2(k) = (2^k)/2!.
a_3(k) = (3^k + 3)/3!.
a_4(k) = (6*2^k + 4^k + 8)/4!.
a_5(k) = (20*2^k + 10*3^k + 5^k + 45)/5!.
a_6(k) = (135*2^k + 40*3^k + 15*4^k + 6^k + 264)/6!.
a_7(k) = (924*2^k + 315*3^k + 70*4^k + 21*5^k + 7^k + 1855)/7!.
a_8(k) = (7420*2^k + 2464*3^k + 630*4^k + 112*5^k + 28*6^k + 8^k + 14832)/8!.
Note that the coefficients of the generating functions a_n are the recontres numbers A000240, A000387, A000449, ...
Rewriting the formulas with exponential generating functions for the rows we have egf(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} !k*binomial(n,k)*exp(x*(n-k)) and A(n, k) = (k!/n!)*[x^k] egf(n). In this formulation no special rule for the case k = 0 is needed.
The rows converge to the Bell numbers. Convergence here means that for every fixed k the terms in column k differ from A000110(k) only for finitely many indices.
A(n, n) are the Bell numbers A000110(n) for n >= 0.
Let S(n, k) = Bell(n+k+1) - A(n, k+n+1) for n >= 0 and k >= 0, then the square array S(n, k) read by descending antidiagonals equals provable the triangle A137650 and equals empirical the transpose of the array A211561.

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