A128746 Height of the last peak summed over all skew Dyck paths of semilength n.

1, 5, 22, 94, 401, 1723, 7475, 32749, 144803, 645627, 2900256, 13115820, 59669295, 272918415, 1254314310, 5789850730, 26831078075, 124785337255, 582247766810, 2724905891890, 12787603121195, 60162698218325, 283715348775727

Offset: 1

Author

Emeric Deutsch, Mar 31 2007

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

A skew Dyck path is a path in the first quadrant which begins at the origin, ends on the x-axis, consists of steps U=(1,1)(up), D=(1,-1)(down) and L=(-1,-1)(left) so that up and left steps do not overlap. The length of the path is defined to be the number of its steps.

Examples

			a(2)=5 because the skew Dyck paths of semilength 2 are UD(UD), U(UD)D and U(UD)L and their last peaks (shown between parentheses) have heights 1, 2 and 2, respectively.
		

Links

• G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
• E. Deutsch, E. Munarini, S. Rinaldi, Skew Dyck paths, J. Stat. Plann. Infer. 140 (8) (2010) 2191-2203

Crossrefs

Cf. A128745.

Programs

Maple

G:=2*z*(1+z+sqrt(1-6*z+5*z^2))/(1-3*z+sqrt(1-6*z+5*z^2))^2: Gser:=series(G,z=0,30): seq(coeff(Gser,z,n),n=1..27);

Mathematica

Rest[CoefficientList[Series[2*x*(1+x+Sqrt[1-6*x+5*x^2])/(1-3*x+Sqrt[1-6*x+5*x^2])^2, {x, 0, 20}], x]] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 20 2014 *)

PARI

z='z+O('z^50); Vec(2*z*(1+z+sqrt(1-6*z+5*z^2))/(1-3*z + sqrt(1-6*z+5*z^2))^2) \\ G. C. Greubel, Mar 20 2017

Formula

a(n) = Sum_{k=1,..,n} A128745(n,k).

G.f.: 2*z*(1+z+sqrt(1-6*z+5*z^2))/(1-3*z+sqrt(1-6*z+5*z^2))^2.

a(n) ~ 5^(n+3/2)/(2*sqrt(Pi)*n^(3/2)). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 20 2014

Conjecture: -(n+2)*(n-1)*a(n) +(6*n^2-3*n+2)*a(n-1) -5*n*(n-2)*a(n-2)=0. - R. J. Mathar, Aug 08 2015