A342492 Number of compositions of n with weakly increasing first quotients.

1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 17, 26, 37, 52, 73, 95, 125, 163, 208, 261, 330, 407, 498, 607, 734, 881, 1056, 1250, 1480, 1738, 2029, 2359, 2742, 3160, 3635, 4169, 4760, 5414, 6151, 6957, 7861, 8858, 9952, 11148, 12483, 13934, 15526, 17267, 19173, 21252, 23535, 25991

Offset: 0

Author

Gus Wiseman, Mar 16 2021

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Also called log-concave-up compositions.

The first quotients of a sequence are defined as if the sequence were an increasing divisor chain, so for example the first quotients of (6,3,1) are (1/2,1/3).

Examples

			The composition (4,2,1,2,3) has first quotients (1/2,1/2,2,3/2) so is not counted under a(12), even though the first differences (-2,-1,1,1) are weakly increasing.
The a(1) = 1 through a(6) = 17 compositions:
  (1)  (2)    (3)      (4)        (5)          (6)
       (1,1)  (1,2)    (1,3)      (1,4)        (1,5)
              (2,1)    (2,2)      (2,3)        (2,4)
              (1,1,1)  (3,1)      (3,2)        (3,3)
                       (1,1,2)    (4,1)        (4,2)
                       (2,1,1)    (1,1,3)      (5,1)
                       (1,1,1,1)  (2,1,2)      (1,1,4)
                                  (3,1,1)      (2,1,3)
                                  (1,1,1,2)    (2,2,2)
                                  (2,1,1,1)    (3,1,2)
                                  (1,1,1,1,1)  (4,1,1)
                                               (1,1,1,3)
                                               (2,1,1,2)
                                               (3,1,1,1)
                                               (1,1,1,1,2)
                                               (2,1,1,1,1)
                                               (1,1,1,1,1,1)
		

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..500
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Logarithmically Concave Sequence.
• Gus Wiseman, Sequences counting and ranking partitions and compositions by their differences and quotients.

Crossrefs

The weakly decreasing version is A069916.

The version for differences instead of quotients is A325546.

The strictly increasing version is A342493.

The unordered version is A342497, ranked by A342523.

The strict unordered version is A342516.

A000005 counts constant compositions.

A000009 counts strictly increasing (or strictly decreasing) compositions.

A000041 counts weakly increasing (or weakly decreasing) compositions.

A000929 counts partitions with all adjacent parts x >= 2y.

A001055 counts factorizations.

A002843 counts compositions with all adjacent parts x <= 2y.

A003238 counts chains of divisors summing to n - 1 (strict: A122651).

A074206 counts ordered factorizations.

A167865 counts strict chains of divisors > 1 summing to n.

Cf. A003242, A008965, A048004, A059966, A067824, A167606, A253249, A274199, A318991, A318992, A342527, A342528.

Programs

Maple

b:= proc(n, q, l) option remember; `if`(n=0, 1, add(
     `if`(q=0 or q>=l/j, b(n-j, l/j, j), 0), j=1..n))
    end:
a:= n-> b(n, 0$2):
seq(a(n), n=0..50);  # Alois P. Heinz, Mar 25 2021

Mathematica

Table[Length[Select[Join@@Permutations/@IntegerPartitions[n],LessEqual@@Divide@@@Reverse/@Partition[#,2,1]&]],{n,0,15}]
(* Second program: *)
b[n_, q_, l_] := b[n, q, l] = If[n == 0, 1, Sum[
     If[q == 0 || q >= l/j, b[n - j, l/j, j], 0], {j, 1, n}]];
a[n_] := b[n, 0, 0];
a /@ Range[0, 50] (* Jean-François Alcover, May 19 2021, after Alois P. Heinz *)

Extensions

a(21)-a(47) from Alois P. Heinz, Mar 25 2021