A276852 Number of positive walks with n steps {-3,-2,-1,1,2,3} starting at the origin, ending at altitude 1, and staying strictly above the x-axis.

0, 1, 2, 7, 28, 121, 560, 2677, 13230, 66742, 343092, 1788681, 9439870, 50321865, 270594896, 1465941763, 7993664588, 43839212778, 241650560756, 1338084935826, 7439615051328, 41516113036777, 232452845782308, 1305500166481715, 7352433083806020, 41514430735834714

Offset: 0

Author

Michael Wallner, Sep 21 2016

Keywords

• nonn
• walk

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1292
• C. Banderier, C. Krattenthaler, A. Krinik, D. Kruchinin, V. Kruchinin, D. Nguyen, and M. Wallner, Explicit formulas for enumeration of lattice paths: basketball and the kernel method, arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06473 [math.CO], 2016.

Crossrefs

Cf. A276901, A276902, A276903, A276904.

Programs

Mathematica

walks[n_, k_, h_] = 0;
walks[1, k_, h_] := Boole[0 < k <= h];
walks[n_, k_, h_] /; n >= 2 && k > 0 := walks[n, k, h] = Sum[walks[n - 1, k - x, h], {x, h}] + Sum[walks[n - 1, k + x, h], {x, h}];
(* walks represents the number of positive walks with n steps {-h, -h+1, ... -1, 1, ..., h} that end at altitude k *)
A276852[n_] := (Do[walks[m, k, 3], {m, n}, {k, 3 m}]; walks[n, 1, 3]) (* Davin Park, Oct 10 2016 *)