A320528 Number of chiral pairs of color patterns (set partitions) in a row of length n using exactly 5 colors (subsets).

0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 64, 508, 3428, 21132, 123050, 688850, 3752350, 20032446, 105372624, 548066568, 2826316248, 14478890712, 73794322750, 374602205590, 1895629599050, 9568906539786, 48208435317284, 242500368793628, 1218342441784468, 6115097961883092, 30669103347259650, 153720181809997530, 770100204404335350, 3856500105221902326

Offset: 1

Author

Robert A. Russell, Oct 14 2018

Keywords

• nonn
• easy

Comments

Two color patterns are equivalent if we permute the colors. Chiral color patterns must not be equivalent if we reverse the order of the pattern.

Examples

			For a(6)=6, the chiral pairs are AABCDE-ABCDEE, ABACDE-ABCDED, ABCADE-ABCDEC, ABCDAE-ABCDEB, ABBCDE-ABCDDE, and ABCBDE-ABCDCE.
		

Links

• Colin Barker, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
• Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (13,-48,-36,551,-683,-1542,3546,80,-4280,2400).

Crossrefs

Col. 5 of A320525.

Cf. A000481 (oriented), A056329 (unoriented), A304975 (achiral).

Programs

Magma

I:=[0,0,0,0,0,6,64,508,3428,21132]; [n le 10 select I[n] else 13*Self(n-1)-48*Self(n-2)-36*Self(n-3)+551*Self(n-4)-683*Self(n-5) -1542*Self(n-6)+3546*Self(n-7)+80*Self(n-8)-4280*Self(n-9) +2400*Self(n-10): n in [1..30]]; // G. C. Greubel, Oct 20 2018

Mathematica

k=5; Table[(StirlingS2[n,k] - If[EvenQ[n], 3StirlingS2[n/2+2,5] - 11StirlingS2[n/2+1,5] + 6StirlingS2[n/2,5], StirlingS2[(n+5)/2,5] - 3StirlingS2[(n+3)/2,5]])/2, {n,30}]
Ach[n_, k_] := Ach[n, k] = If[n<2, Boole[n==k && n>=0], k Ach[n-2,k] + Ach[n-2,k-1] + Ach[n-2,k-2]] (* A304972 *)
k = 5; Table[(StirlingS2[n, k] - Ach[n, k])/2, {n, 1, 30}]
LinearRecurrence[{13, -48, -36, 551, -683, -1542, 3546, 80, -4280, 2400}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 64, 508, 3428, 21132}, 30]

PARI

m=30; v=concat([0,0,0,0,0,6,64,508,3428,21132], vector(m-10)); for(n=11, m, v[n] = 13*v[n-1]-48*v[n-2]-36*v[n-3]+551*v[n-4]-683*v[n-5] -1542*v[n-6] +3546*v[n-7] +80*v[n-8] -4280*v[n-9] +2400*v[n-10]); v \\ G. C. Greubel, Oct 20 2018

Formula

a(n) = (S2(n,k) - A(n,k))/2, where k=5 is the number of colors (sets), S2 is the Stirling subset number A008277 and A(n,k) = [n>1] * (k*A(n-2,k) + A(n-2,k-1) + A(n-2,k-2)) + [n<2 & n==k & n>=0].

G.f.: (x^5 / Product_{k=1..5} (1 - k*x) - x^5 (1 + x) (1 - 3 x^2) (1 + 2 x - 2 x^2) / Product_{k=1..5} (1 - k*x^2)) / 2.

a(n) = (A000481(n) - A304975(n)) / 2 = A000481(n) - A056329(n) = A056329(n) - A304975(n).

a(n) = 13*a(n-1) - 48*a(n-2) - 36*a(n-3) + 551*a(n-4) - 683*a(n-5) - 1542*a(n-6) + 3546*a(n-7) + 80*a(n-8) - 4280*a(n-9) + 2400*a(n-10) for n>10. - Colin Barker, May 12 2020