A276904 Number of positive walks with n steps {-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3} starting at the origin, ending at altitude 2, and staying strictly above the x-axis.

0, 1, 3, 14, 68, 358, 1966, 11172, 65104, 387029, 2337919, 14309783, 88555917, 553171371, 3483277785, 22087378303, 140913963221, 903876307075, 5825742149049, 37710582868464, 245052827645474, 1598017940728401, 10454217006683855, 68591382498826168

Offset: 0

Author

Michael Wallner, Sep 21 2016

Keywords

• nonn
• walk

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1189
• 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. A276852, A276901, A276902, A276903.

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, h}];
(* walks represents the number of positive walks with n steps {-h, -h+1, ... , h} that end at altitude k *)
A276904[n_] := (Do[walks[m, k, 3], {m, n}, {k, 3 m}]; walks[n, 2, 3]) (* Davin Park, Oct 10 2016 *)

Extensions

More terms from Alois P. Heinz, Oct 10 2016