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Deutsch shows in his 1999 paper that this automorphism maps the number of doublerises of Dyck paths to number of valleys and height of the first peak to the number of returns, i.e., that A126306(n) = A127284(a(n)) and A126307(n) = A057515(a(n)) hold for all n.

The A000108(n-2) n-gon triangularizations can be reflected over n axes of symmetry, which all can be generated by appropriate compositions of the permutations A057161/A057162 and A057163.

Composition with A057164 gives signature permutation for Donaghey's Map M (A057505/A057506). Embeds into itself in scale n:2n+1 as a(n) = A083928(a(A080298(n))). A127302(a(n)) = A127302(n) and A057123(A057163(n)) = A057164(A057123(n)) hold for all n.

Records in {a(n)} occur at {1,4,18,96,600,4320,35280,322560,3265920,...}, which appears to be n*n! = A001563(n).

The most significant digit in the factorial expansion of n (A007623). Proof: The algorithm that computes the factorial expansion of n, generates the successive digits by repeatedly dividing the previous quotient with successively larger divisors (the remainders give the digits), starting from n itself and divisor 2. As a corollary we find that A001563 indeed gives the positions of the records. - Antti Karttunen, Jan 01 2007.

We write the nonnegative integers as restricted growth strings (so called by J. Arndt in his book fxtbook.pdf, p. 325) in such a way that the Catalan numbers (cf. A000108) are expressed: 1=1, 10=2, 100=5, 1000=14, etc., 10...0 (with k zeros) = the k-th Catalan number. Once the entries of a restricted-growth string grow above 9, one would need commas or parentheses, say, to separate those entries. See Dejter (2017) for the precise definition.

In the paper "A system of numeration for middle-levels", restricted growth strings (RGSs) are defined as sequences that begin with either 0 or 1, with each successive number to the right being at least zero and at most one greater than its immediate left neighbor. Moreover, apart from case a(0), the RGSs are finite integer sequences of restricted growth which always start with 1 as their first element b_1 in position 1, and from then on, each successive element b_{i+1} in the sequence is restricted to be in range [0,(b_i)+1].

This sequence gives all such finite sequences in size-wise and lexicographic order, represented as decimal numbers by concatenating the integers of such finite sequences (e.g., from [1,2,0,1] we get 1201). The 58784th such sequence is [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9], thus a(58784) = 1234567899, after which comes the first RGS, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10], where an element larger than 9 is present, which means that the decimal system employed here is unambiguous only up to n=58784. Note that 58785 = A000108(11)-1.

Also, if one considers Stanley's interpretation (u) of Catalan numbers, "sequences of a_1, a_2, ..., a_n of integers such that a_1 = 0 and 0 <= a_{i+1} <= a_{i} + 1" (e.g., 000, 001, 010, 011, 012 for C_3), and discards their initial zero, then one has a bijective correspondence with Dejter's RGSs of one element shorter length, which in turn are in bijective correspondence with the first C_n terms of this sequence (by discarding any leading zeros), from a(0) to a(C_n - 1). From this follows that the k-th Catalan number, A000108(k) (k>0), is represented in this system as 1 followed by k-1 zeros: a(1)=1, a(2)=10, a(5)=100, a(14)=1000, etc., and also that there exist exactly A000245(k) RGSs of length k.

Note how this differs from other number representations utilizing Catalan numbers, A014418 and A244159, in that while the latter are base-systems, where a simple weighted Sum_{k} digit(k)*C(k) recovers the natural number n (which the n-th numeral of such system represents), in contrast here it is the sum of appropriate terms in Catalan's Triangle (A009766, A030237), obtained by unranking a unique instance of a certain combinatorial structure (one of the Catalan interpretations), that gives a correspondence with a unique natural number. (Cf. also A014486.)

This sequence differs from "Semigreedy Catalan Representation", A244159, for the first time at n=10, where a(10) = 120, while A244159(10) = 121. That is also the first position where A244158(a(n)) <> n.

Please see Dejter's preprint for a more formal mathematical definition and how this number system is applied in relation to Havel's Conjecture on the existence of Hamiltonian cycles in the middle-levels graphs.

a(n) is given by the concatenation (with leading zeros removed) of the terms of row n + 23714 of A370222. - Paolo Xausa, Feb 17 2024

Vaillé shows in 1997 paper that this automorphism transforms a 'derivation' of a Dyck path to its 'compression', i.e., in OEIS terms, A125985(A126310(n)) = A126309(A125985(n)) holds for all n. He also proves that A057515(A125985(n)) = A126307(n) and A057514(A125985(n)) = A072643(n) - A057514(n) + 1 (the latter identity for all n >= 1).

Apart from 0, each n occurs A000245(n) times.

For n >= 1, a(n) gives the largest k such that C(k) <= n, where C(k) stands for the k-th Catalan number, A000108(k).