A342494 Number of compositions of n with strictly decreasing first quotients.

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 12, 15, 21, 30, 39, 50, 65, 82, 103, 129, 160, 196, 240, 293, 352, 422, 500, 593, 706, 832, 974, 1138, 1324, 1534, 1783, 2054, 2362, 2712, 3108, 3552, 4051, 4606, 5232, 5935, 6713, 7573, 8536, 9597, 10773, 12085, 13534, 15119, 16874, 18809

Offset: 0

Author

Gus Wiseman, Mar 17 2021

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

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 (1,2,3,4,2) has first quotients (2,3/2,4/3,1/2) so is counted under a(12).
The a(1) = 1 through a(6) = 12 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)
                     (3,1)    (3,2)    (3,3)
                     (1,2,1)  (4,1)    (4,2)
                              (1,2,2)  (5,1)
                              (1,3,1)  (1,2,3)
                              (2,2,1)  (1,3,2)
                                       (1,4,1)
                                       (2,3,1)
                                       (3,2,1)
                                       (1,2,2,1)
		

Links

• 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 A325548.

The strictly increasing version is A342493.

The unordered version is A342499, ranked by A342525.

The strict unordered version is A342518.

A000005 counts constant compositions.

A000009 counts strictly increasing (or strictly decreasing) compositions.

A000041 counts weakly increasing (or weakly decreasing) compositions.

A001055 counts factorizations.

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.

A274199 counts compositions with all adjacent parts x < 2y.

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

Programs

Mathematica

Table[Length[Select[Join@@Permutations/@IntegerPartitions[n],Greater@@Divide@@@Reverse/@Partition[#,2,1]&]],{n,0,15}]

Extensions

a(21)-a(49) from Alois P. Heinz, Mar 18 2021