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A099390 Array T(m,n) read by antidiagonals: number of domino tilings (or dimer tilings) of the m X n grid (or m X n rectangle), for m>=1, n>=1.

0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 3, 3, 1, 0, 5, 0, 5, 0, 1, 8, 11, 11, 8, 1, 0, 13, 0, 36, 0, 13, 0, 1, 21, 41, 95, 95, 41, 21, 1, 0, 34, 0, 281, 0, 281, 0, 34, 0, 1, 55, 153, 781, 1183, 1183, 781, 153, 55, 1, 0, 89, 0, 2245, 0, 6728, 0, 2245, 0, 89, 0, 1, 144, 571, 6336, 14824, 31529, 31529, 14824, 6336, 571, 144, 1

Offset: 1

Ralf Stephan, Oct 16 2004

There are many versions of this array (or triangle) in the OEIS. This is the main entry, which ideally collects together all the references to the literature and to other versions in the OEIS. But see A004003 for further information. - N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 14 2015

			0,  1,  0,   1,    0,    1, ...
1,  2,  3,   5,    8,   13, ...
0,  3,  0,  11,    0,   41, ...
1,  5, 11,  36,   95,  281, ...
0,  8,  0,  95,    0, 1183, ...
1, 13, 41, 281, 1183, 6728, ...

S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 406-412.
P. E. John, H. Sachs, and H. Zernitz, Problem 5. Domino covers in square chessboards, Zastosowania Matematyki (Applicationes Mathematicae) XIX 3-4 (1987), 635-641.
R. P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics, Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., pp. 547 and 570.
Darko Veljan, Kombinatorika: s teorijom grafova (Croatian) (Combinatorics with Graph Theory) mentions the value 12988816 = 2^4*901^2 for the 8 X 8 case on page 4.

Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1035
M. Aanjaneya and S. P. Pal, Faultfree tromino tilings of rectangles, arXiv:math/0610925 [math.CO], 2006.
Mudit Aggarwal and Samrith Ram, Generating Functions for Straight Polyomino Tilings of Narrow Rectangles, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 26 (2023), Article 23.1.4.
F. Ardila and R. P. Stanley, Tilings, arXiv:math/0501170 [math.CO], 2005.
M. Ciucu, Enumeration of perfect matchings in graphs with reflective symmetry, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Volume 77, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 67-97.
Henry Cohn, 2-adic behavior of numbers of domino tilings, arXiv:math/0008222 [math.CO], 2000.
Henry Cohn, 2-adic behavior of numbers of domino tilings, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 6 (1999), #R14.
F. Faase, Counting Hamiltonian cycles in product graphs
F. Faase, Results from the counting program
Steven R. Finch, The Dimer Problem [From Steven Finch, Apr 20 2019]
Steven R. Finch, Two Dimensional Monomer Dimer Constant [Broken link]
M. E. Fisher, Statistical mechanics of dimers on a plane lattice, Physical Review, 124 (1961), 1664-1672.
P. Flajolet and R. Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics, 2009; see page 363.
Laura Florescu, Daniela Morar, David Perkinson, Nicholas Salter, and Tianyuan Xu, Sandpiles and Dominos, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 22(1), 2015.
W. Jockusch, Perfect matchings and perfect squares J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 67 (1994), no. 1, 100-115.
Peter E. John and Horst Sachs, On a strange observation in the theory of the dimer problem, arXiv:math/9801094 [math.CO], 1998.
Peter E. John and Horst Sachs, On a strange observation in the theory of the dimer problem, Discrete Math. 216 (2000), no. 1-3, 211-219.
Yuhi Kamio, Junnosuke Koizumi, and Toshihiko Nakazawa, Quadratic residues and domino tilings, arXiv:2311.13597 [math.NT], 2023.
David Klarner and Jordan Pollack, Domino tilings of rectangles with fixed width, Disc. Math. 32 (1980) 45-52, Table 1.
Per Hakan Lundow, Enumeration of matchings in polygraphs, 1998.
P. W. Kasteleyn, The statistics of dimers on a lattice, I. the number of dimer arrangements on a quadratic lattice, Physica 27 (1961), 1209-1225.
Douglas M. McKenna, The Art of Space-Filling Domino Curves, Bridges Conference Proceedings, 2024, pp. 319-326.
L. Pachter, Combinatorial approaches and conjectures for 2-divisibility problems concerning domino tilings of polyominoes, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 4 (1997), #R29.
J. Propp, Dimers and Dominoes
J. Propp, Enumeration of Matchings: Problems and Progress, arXiv:math/9904150v2 [math.CO], 1999.
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon, Polyominoes and Related Families, The Mathematica Journal, 9:3 (2005), 609-640.
R. C. Read, A Note on Tiling Rectangles with Dominoes, The Fibonacci Quarterly, 18.1 (1980), 24-27.
R. P. Stanley, A combinatorial miscellany
H. N. V. Temperley and Michael E. Fisher, Dimer problem in statistical mechanics -- an exact result, Philos. Mag. (8) 6 (1961), 1061-1063.
Herman Tulleken, Polyominoes 2.2: How they fit together, (2019).
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Domino Tiling
Eric Weisstein, Illustration for T(4,4) = 36, from Domino Tilings web page (see previous link) [Included with permission]
Index entries for sequences related to dominoes

See A187596 for another version (with m >= 0, n >= 0). See A187616 for a triangular version. See also A187617, A187618.
See also A004003 for more literature on the dimer problem.
Rows 2-13, 16 (without zeros) are A000045, A001835, A005178, A003775, A028468, A028469, A028470, A028471, A028472, A028473, A028474, A241908, A340532.
Main diagonal is A004003.
Cf. A103997, A103999, A233320, A230031, A233427.

(Maple code for the even-numbered rows from N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 15 2015. This is not totally satisfactory since it uses floating point. However, it is useful for getting the initial values quickly.)
Digits:=100;
p:=evalf(Pi);
z:=proc(h,d) global p; evalf(cos( h*p/(2*d+1) )); end;
T:=proc(m,n) global z; round(mul( mul( 4*z(h,m)^2+4*z(k,n)^2, k=1..n), h=1..m)); end;
[seq(T(1,n),n=0..10)]; # A001519
[seq(T(2,n),n=0..10)]; # A188899
[seq(T(3,n),n=0..10)]; # A256044
[seq(T(n,n),n=0..10)]; # A004003

T[?OddQ, ?OddQ] = 0;
T[m_, n_] := Product[2*(2+Cos[2j*Pi/(m+1)]+Cos[2k*Pi/(n+1)]), {k, 1, n/2}, {j, 1, m/2}];
Flatten[Table[Round[T[m-n+1, n]], {m, 1, 12}, {n, 1, m}]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 25 2011, updated May 28 2022 *)

{T(n, k) = sqrtint(abs(polresultant(polchebyshev(n, 2, x/2), polchebyshev(k, 2, I*x/2))))} \\ Seiichi Manyama, Apr 13 2020

T(m, n) = Product_{j=1..ceiling(m/2)} Product_{k=1..ceiling(n/2)} (4*cos(j*Pi/(m+1))^2 + 4*cos(k*Pi/(n+1))^2).

Old link fixed and new link added by Frans J. Faase, Feb 04 2009

Entry edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 15 2015

A005178 Number of domino tilings of 4 X (n-1) board.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 1, 5, 11, 36, 95, 281, 781, 2245, 6336, 18061, 51205, 145601, 413351, 1174500, 3335651, 9475901, 26915305, 76455961, 217172736, 616891945, 1752296281, 4977472781, 14138673395, 40161441636, 114079985111, 324048393905

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane, David Singmaster, Frans J. Faase

Or, number of perfect matchings in graph P_4 X P_{n-1}.
a(0) = 0, a(1) = 1 by convention.
It is easy to see that the g.f. for indecomposable tilings, i.e., those that cannot be split vertically into smaller tilings, is g = x + 4x^2 + 2x^3 + 3x^4 + 2x^5 + 3x^6 + 2x^7 + 3x^8 + ... = x + 4x^2 + x^3*(2+3x)/(1-x^2); then g.f. = 1/(1-g) = (1-x^2)/(1-x-5x^2-x^3+x^4). - Emeric Deutsch, Oct 16 2006
This is a divisibility sequence; that is, if n divides m, then a(n) divides a(m). - T. D. Noe, Dec 22 2008
From Artur Jasinski, Dec 20 2008: (Start)
All numbers in this sequence are:
congruent to 0 mod 100 if n is congruent to 14 or 29 mod 30
congruent to 1 mod 100 if n is congruent to 0 or 1 or 12 or 16 or 27 or 28 mod 30
congruent to 5 mod 100 if n is congruent to 2 or 11 or 17 or 26 mod 30
congruent to 11 mod 100 if n is congruent to 3 or 25 mod 30
congruent to 36 mod 100 if n is congruent to 4 or 9 or 19 or 24 mod 30
congruent to 45 mod 100 if n is congruent to 8 or 20 mod 30
congruent to 51 mod 100 if n is congruent to 13 or 15 mod 30
congruent to 61 mod 100 if n is congruent to 10 or 18 mod 30
congruent to 81 mod 100 if n is congruent to 6 or 7 or 21 or 22 mod 30
congruent to 95 mod 100 if n is congruent to 5 or 23 mod 30
(End)
This is the case P1 = 1, P2 = -7, Q = 1 of the 3 parameter family of 4th-order linear divisibility sequences found by Williams and Guy. - Peter Bala, Mar 31 2014

			For n=2 the graph is
  o-o-o-o
and there is one perfect tiling:
  o-o o-o
For n=3 the graph is
  o-o-o-o
  | | | |
  o-o-o-o
and there are five perfect tilings:
  o o o o
  | | | |
  o o o o
two like:
  o o o-o
  | | ...
  o o o-o
and this
  o-o o-o
  .......
  o-o o-o
and this
  o o-o o
  | ... |
  o o-o o
a(n+1)=r(n)-r(n-2), r(n)=if n=0 then 1 else sum(sum(binomial(k,j)*sum(binomial(j,i-j)*5^(i-j)*binomial(k-j,n-i-3*(k-j))*(-1)^(n-i-3*(k-j)),i,j,n-k+j),j,0,k),k,1,n), n>1. - _Vladimir Kruchinin_, Sep 08 2010

F. Faase, On the number of specific spanning subgraphs of the graphs G X P_n, Ars Combin. 49 (1998), 129-154.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
R. P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics I, p. 292.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
Steve Butler, Jason Ekstrand, and Steven Osborne, Counting Tilings by Taking Walks in a Graph, A Project-Based Guide to Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, Birkhäuser, Cham (2020), see page 158.
Curtis Cooper and Robert E. Kennedy, Problem B-735: Soln 1, Problem B-735: Soln 2, Square Root of a Recurrence, The Fibonacci Quarterly, 32(2):185-186, May 1994, and 32(4):374-375, Aug 1994.
F. Faase, On the number of specific spanning subgraphs of the graphs G X P_n, Preliminary version of paper that appeared in Ars Combin. 49 (1998), 129-154.
F. Faase, Counting Hamiltonian cycles in product graphs
F. Faase, Results from the counting program
Vladimir Victorovich Kruchinin, Composition of ordinary generating functions, arXiv:1009.2565 [math.CO], 2010.
R. J. Mathar, Paving Rectangular Regions with Rectangular Tiles: Tatami and Non-Tatami Tilings, arXiv:1311.6135 [math.CO], 2013, Table 3.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
Simone Rinaldi and D. G. Rogers, Indecomposability: polyominoes and polyomino tilings, The Mathematical Gazette 92.524 (2008): 193-204.
David Singmaster, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 3 1982.
Thotsaporn "Aek" Thanatipanonda, Statistics of Domino Tilings on a Rectangular Board, Fibonacci Quart. 57 (2019), no. 5, 145-153. See p. 151.
Herman Tulleken, Polyominoes 2.2: How they fit together, (2019).
H. C. Williams and R. K. Guy, Some fourth-order linear divisibility sequences, Intl. J. Number Theory 7 (5) (2011) 1255-1277
H. C. Williams and R. K. Guy, Some Monoapparitic Fourth Order Linear Divisibility Sequences Integers, Volume 12A (2012) The John Selfridge Memorial Volume.
Li Zhou, Northwestern University Math Problem Solving Group, Christopher Carl Heckman and Jerry Minkus, Tiling 4-Rowed Rectangles with Dominoes: 11187, The American Mathematical Monthly 114 (2007): 554-556.
Index to divisibility sequences
Index entries for sequences related to dominoes
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1,5,1,-1).

Row 4 of array A099390.
For all matchings see A033507.
Cf. A003775, A028468, A028469, A028470.
Cf. A003757. - T. D. Noe, Dec 22 2008
Bisection (odd part) gives A188899. - Alois P. Heinz, Oct 28 2012
Column k=2 of A250662.

a[0]:=1: a[1]:=1: a[2]:=5: a[3]:=11: for n from 4 to 26 do a[n]:=a[n-1]+5*a[n-2]+a[n-3]-a[n-4] od: seq(a[n],n=0..26); # Emeric Deutsch, Oct 16 2006
A005178:=-(-1-4*z-z**2+z**3)/(1-z-5*z**2-z**3+z**4) # conjectured (correctly) by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation; gives sequence apart from an initial 1

CoefficientList[Series[x(1-x^2)/(1-x-5x^2-x^3+x^4), {x,0,30}], x] (* T. D. Noe, Dec 22 2008 *)
LinearRecurrence[{1, 5, 1, -1}, {0, 1, 1, 5}, 28] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Aug 08 2011 *)
a[0] = 0; a[n_] := Product[2(2+Cos[2j Pi/5]+Cos[2k Pi/n]), {k, 1, (n-1)/2}, {j, 1, 2}] // Round;
Table[a[n], {n, 0, 27}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Aug 20 2018 *)

r(n):=if n=0 then 1 else sum(sum(binomial(k,j)*sum(binomial(j,i-j)*5^(i-j)*binomial(k-j,n-i-3*(k-j))*(-1)^(n-i-3*(k-j)),i,j,n-k+j),j,0,k),k,1,n); a(n):=r(n)-r(n-2); /* Vladimir Kruchinin, Sep 08 2010 */

a(n) = a(n-1) + 5*a(n-2) + a(n-3) - a(n-4).
G.f.: x*(1 - x^2)/(1 - x - 5*x^2 - x^3 + x^4).
Limit_{n->oo} a(n)/a(n-1) = (1 + sqrt(29) + sqrt(14 + 2*sqrt(29)))/4 = 2.84053619409... - Philippe Deléham, Jun 12 2005
a(n) = (5*sqrt(29)/145)*(((1+sqrt(29)+sqrt(14+2*sqrt(29)))/4)^n+((1+sqrt(29)-sqrt(14+2*sqrt(29)))/4)^n-((1-sqrt(29)+sqrt(14-2*sqrt(29)))/4)^n-((1-sqrt(29)-sqrt(14-2*sqrt(29)))/4)^n). - Tim Monahan, Jul 30 2011
From Peter Bala, Mar 31 2014: (Start)
a(n) = ( T(n,alpha) - T(n,beta) )/(alpha - beta), where alpha = (1 + sqrt(29))/4 and beta = (1 - sqrt(29))/4 and T(n,x) denotes the Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind.
a(n) = the bottom left entry of the 2 X 2 matrix T(n, M), where M is the 2 X 2 matrix [0, 7/4; 1, 1/2].
a(n) = U(n-1,i*(1 + sqrt(5))/4)*U(n-1,i*(1 - sqrt(5))/4), where U(n,x) denotes the Chebyshev polynomial of the second kind.
See the remarks in A100047 for the general connection between Chebyshev polynomials and 4th-order linear divisibility sequences. (End)
a(n) = A129113(n+2) - A129113(n). - R. J. Mathar, May 03 2021

Amalgamated with (former) A003692, Dec 30 1995
Name changed and 0 prepended by T. D. Noe, Dec 22 2008
Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 15 2009

A187617 Array T(m,n) read by antidiagonals: number of domino tilings of the 2m X 2n grid (m>=0, n>=0).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 5, 5, 1, 1, 13, 36, 13, 1, 1, 34, 281, 281, 34, 1, 1, 89, 2245, 6728, 2245, 89, 1, 1, 233, 18061, 167089, 167089, 18061, 233, 1, 1, 610, 145601, 4213133, 12988816, 4213133, 145601, 610, 1

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 11 2011

A099390 is the main entry for this problem.
The even-indexed rows and columns of the square array in A187596.
Row (and column) 2 is given by A122367. - Nathaniel Johnston, Mar 22 2011

			The array begins:
  1,  1,     1,       1,          1,            1, ...
  1,  2,     5,      13,         34,           89, ...
  1,  5,    36,     281,       2245,        18061, ...
  1, 13,   281,    6728,     167089,      4213133, ...
  1, 34,  2245,  167089,   12988816,   1031151241, ...
  1, 89, 18061, 4213133, 1031151241, 258584046368, ...

Alois P. Heinz, Antidiagonals n = 0..26, flattened
N. Allegra, Exact solution of the 2d dimer model: Corner free energy, correlation functions and combinatorics, arXiv:1410.4131 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 2014. See Table 1.
Laura Florescu, Daniela Morar, David Perkinson, Nicholas Salter and Tianyuan Xu, Sandpiles and Dominos, El. J. Comb., 22 (2015), P1.66. See Theorem 15.
Index entries for sequences related to dominoes

A187618 is the triangle version.
Cf. A187596, A099390, A348566.
Main diagonal is A004003. Second and third rows give A001519, A188899.

ft:=(m,n)->
2^(m*n/2)*mul( mul(
(cos(Pi*i/(n+1))^2+cos(Pi*j/(m+1))^2), j=1..m/2), i=1..n/2);
T:=(m,n)->round(evalf(ft(m,n),300));

T[m_, n_] := Product[2(2 + Cos[(2j Pi)/(2m+1)] + Cos[(2k Pi)/(2n+1)]), {j, 1, m}, {k, 1, n}];
Table[T[m-n, n] // Round, {m, 0, 8}, {n, 0, m}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Aug 05 2018 *)

default(realprecision, 120);
{T(n, k) = round(prod(a=1, n, prod(b=1, k, 4*cos(a*Pi/(2*n+1))^2+4*cos(b*Pi/(2*k+1))^2)))} \\ Seiichi Manyama, Jan 09 2021

More terms from Nathaniel Johnston, Mar 22 2011

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