A278392 Number of positive meanders (walks starting at the origin and ending at any altitude > 0 that never touch or go below the x-axis in between) with n steps from {-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3}.

1, 3, 15, 87, 530, 3329, 21316, 138345, 906853, 5989967, 39804817, 265812731, 1782288408, 11991201709, 80911836411, 547334588037, 3710610424765, 25204313298581, 171492983631249, 1168638213247713, 7974592724571446, 54484621312318007, 372671912259214487

Offset: 0

Author

David Nguyen, Nov 20 2016

Keywords

• nonn
• walk

Comments

By convention, the empty walk (corresponding to n=0) is considered to be a positive meander.

Links

• Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
• 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:1609.06473 [math.CO], 2016.

Crossrefs

Cf. A276852, A278391, A278393, A278394, A278395, A278396, A278398.

Programs

Mathematica

frac[ex_] := Select[ex, Exponent[#, x] < 0&];
seq[n_] := Module[{v, m, p}, v = Table[0, n]; m = Sum[x^i, {i, -3, 3}]; p = 1/x; v[[1]] = 1; For[i = 2, i <= n, i++, p = p*m // Expand; p = p - frac[p]; v[[i]] = p /. x -> 1]; v];
seq[23] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 01 2018, after Andrew Howroyd *)

PARI

seq(n)={my(v=vector(n), m=sum(i=-3, 3, x^i), p=1/x); v[1]=1; for(i=2, n, p*=m; p-=frac(p); v[i]=subst(p,x,1)); v} \\ Andrew Howroyd, Jun 27 2018