A334877 Number of self-avoiding walks on a 2-dimensional square lattice where the walk consists of steps with incrementing length from 1 to n.
1, 4, 12, 36, 108, 324, 948, 2740, 7892, 22540, 64020, 181396, 511828, 1440652, 4045676, 11322732, 31615780, 88100644, 245143676, 681002276, 1888943100, 5233741636, 14484853148, 40043579596, 110590828396, 305133547724
Offset: 0
Examples
a(1) = 4. These are the four directions one can step away from a point on a 2D square lattice. a(2) = 12. These consist of the two following walks: . * | 1 2 . 2 *---*---.---* | *---* 1 . The first walk can be taken in 8 different ways, the second in 4 ways, giving a total of 12 walks. a(3) = 36. These consist of the following five walks: . * * | | . 3 3 . | 3 *---.---.---* *---.---.---* | 3 . | | . | . 2 . 2 | * | | *---*---.---* | *---* *---* 1 2 . 2 1 1 | *---*---.---*---.---.---* *---* 1 2 3 1 . The first four can be taken in 8 different ways, while the last straight walk can be taken in 4 ways, giving a total of 36 walks. Notice it is not possible to form a collision from any of these walks by adding a step of length 4.
Links
- A. R. Conway et al., Algebraic techniques for enumerating self-avoiding walks on the square lattice, J. Phys A 26 (1993) 1519-1534.
- A. J. Guttmann, On the critical behavior of self-avoiding walks, J. Phys. A 20 (1987), 1839-1854.
- A. J. Guttmann and A. R. Conway, Self-Avoiding Walks and Polygons, Annals of Combinatorics 5 (2001) 319-345.
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