A294006 Number of multisets of exactly four nonempty words with a total of n letters over n-ary alphabet such that within each prefix of a word every letter of the alphabet is at least as frequent as the subsequent alphabet letter.

1, 2, 7, 22, 73, 234, 791, 2702, 9507, 34258, 126807, 482306, 1885031, 7578028, 31316391, 133117500, 581531653, 2611112712, 12037781812, 56962049532, 276345797775, 1373655295948, 6988160240848, 36356528106984, 193225799686632, 1048279646446240

Offset: 4

Author

Alois P. Heinz, Oct 21 2017

Keywords

• nonn

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 4..803

Crossrefs

Column k=4 of A293808.

Cf. A000085.

Programs

Maple

g:= proc(n) option remember; `if`(n<2, 1, g(n-1)+(n-1)*g(n-2)) end:
b:= proc(n, i) option remember; series(`if`(n=0 or i=1, x^n,
      add(binomial(g(i)+j-1, j)*b(n-i*j, i-1)*x^j, j=0..n/i)), x, 5)
    end:
a:= n-> coeff(b(n$2), x, 4):
seq(a(n), n=4..35);

Formula

a(n) = [x^n y^4] Product_{j>=1} 1/(1-y*x^j)^A000085(j).