A238423 Number of compositions of n avoiding three consecutive parts in arithmetic progression.

1, 1, 2, 3, 7, 13, 22, 42, 81, 149, 278, 516, 971, 1812, 3374, 6297, 11770, 21970, 41002, 76523, 142901, 266779, 497957, 929563, 1735418, 3239698, 6047738, 11289791, 21076118, 39344992, 73448769, 137113953, 255965109, 477835991, 892023121, 1665227859

Offset: 0

Author

Joerg Arndt and Alois P. Heinz, Feb 26 2014

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

These are compositions of n whose second-differences are nonzero. - Gus Wiseman, Jun 03 2019

Examples

			The a(5) = 13 such compositions are:
01:  [ 1 1 2 1 ]
02:  [ 1 1 3 ]
03:  [ 1 2 1 1 ]
04:  [ 1 2 2 ]
05:  [ 1 3 1 ]
06:  [ 1 4 ]
07:  [ 2 1 2 ]
08:  [ 2 2 1 ]
09:  [ 2 3 ]
10:  [ 3 1 1 ]
11:  [ 3 2 ]
12:  [ 4 1 ]
13:  [ 5 ]
		

Links

• Joerg Arndt and Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..400
• Wikipedia, Arithmetic progression

Crossrefs

Cf. A238424 (equivalent for partitions).

Cf. A238569 (equivalent for any 3-term arithmetic progression).

Cf. A238686, A295370.

Cf. A007862, A049988, A175342, A325545, A325849, A325851, A325874, A325875.

Programs

Maple

# b(n, r, d): number of compositions of n where the leftmost part j
#             does not have distance d to the recent part r
b:= proc(n, r, d) option remember; `if`(n=0, 1,
      add(`if`(j=r+d, 0, b(n-j, j, j-r)), j=1..n))
    end:
a:= n-> b(n, infinity, 0):
seq(a(n), n=0..45);

Mathematica

b[n_, r_, d_] := b[n, r, d] = If[n == 0, 1, Sum[If[j == r + d, 0, b[n - j, j, j - r]], {j, 1, n}]]; a[n_] := b[n, Infinity, 0]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 45}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 06 2014, after Maple *)
Table[Length[Select[Join@@Permutations/@IntegerPartitions[n],!MemberQ[Differences[#,2],0]&]],{n,0,10}] (* Gus Wiseman, Jun 03 2019 *)

Formula

a(n) ~ c * d^n, where d = 1.866800016014240677813344121155900699..., c = 0.540817940878009616510727217687704495... - Vaclav Kotesovec, May 01 2014