A300781 Number of log-concave permutations of {1,...,n}.

1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, 18, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12

Offset: 0

Author

Pontus von Brömssen, Mar 12 2018

Keywords

• easy
• nonn

Comments

a(n) = 12 for n >= 10, since for these n the only log-concave permutations of {1,...,n} are (1,2,...,n), (1,2,4,5,...,n,3), (1,2,4,6,...,7,5,3), (1,3,4,...,n,2), (1,3,5,...,6,4,2), (1,n,...,3,2), and the reverses of these.

Links

• Pontus Andersson (von Brömssen), Log-concave permutations, Manuscript, 2002.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Logarithmically Concave Sequence.
• Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1).

Crossrefs

Cf. A069916, A301454.

Formula

G.f.: (6*x^10 +4*x^9 -4*x^8 -4*x^7 -4*x^6 -2*x^5 -4*x^4 -2*x^3 -x^2 -1)/(x-1).