A256181 The number of permutations of length n sortable by 3 block interchanges.
1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 5040, 32256, 169632, 737364, 2731444, 8875868, 25894376, 69053375, 170694383, 395443223, 866147111, 1806459866, 3608498678, 6937282452, 12887902732, 23216767894, 40675018726, 69480583966, 115975600846, 189528370396, 303753983092
Offset: 1
Examples
The shortest permutations that cannot be sorted by 3 block interchanges are of length 8.
Links
- Colin Barker, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
- D. A. Christie, Sorting Permutations by Block-Interchanges, Inf. Process. Lett. 60 (1996), 165-169.
- C. Homberger, V. Vatter, On the effective and automatic enumeration of polynomial permutation classes, arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4946 [math.CO], 2013-2015.
- Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (13,-78,286,-715,1287,-1716,1716,-1287,715,-286,78,-13,1).
Programs
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PARI
Vec(x*(1-11*x+58*x^2-184*x^3+419*x^4-541*x^5+1608*x^6-270*x^7+567*x^8-217*x^9+66*x^10-12*x^11+x^12)/(1-x)^13 + O(x^30)) \\ Colin Barker, Dec 15 2015
Formula
G.f.: -x * (x^12 -12*x^11 +66*x^10 -217*x^9 +567*x^8 -270*x^7 +1608*x^6 -541*x^5 +419*x^4 -184*x^3 +58*x^2 -11*x +1) / (x^13 -13*x^12 +78*x^11 -286*x^10 +715*x^9 -1287*x^8 +1716*x^7 -1716*x^6 +1287*x^5 -715*x^4 +286*x^3 -78*x^2 +13*x -1).