A345023 a(n) is the surface area of the symmetric tower described in A221529 which is a polycube whose successive terraces are the symmetric representation of sigma A000203(i) (from i = 1 to n) starting from the top and the levels of these terraces are the partition numbers A000041(h-1) (from h = 1 to n) starting from the base.

6, 16, 32, 58, 90, 142, 202, 292, 406, 562, 754, 1034, 1370, 1822, 2410, 3176, 4136, 5402, 6982, 9026, 11598, 14838, 18894, 24034, 30396, 38312, 48136, 60288, 75220, 93624, 116104, 143598, 177090, 217770, 267106, 326820, 398804, 485472, 589644, 714564, 864000, 1042524, 1255308

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Author

Omar E. Pol, Jun 05 2021

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

The largest side of the base of the tower has length n.

The base of the tower is the symmetric representation of A024916(n).

The volume of the tower is equal to A066186(n).

The area of each lateral view of the tower is equal to A000070(n-1).

The growth of the volume of the tower represents the convolution of A000203 and A000041.

The above results are because the correspondence between divisors and partitions described in A338156 and A336812.

The tower is also a member of the family of the stepped pyramid described in A245092.

The equivalent sequence for the surface area of the stepped pyramid is A328366.

Examples

			For n = 7 we can see below some views of two associated polycubes called "prism of partitions" and "tower". Both objects contains the same number of cubes (that property is also valid for n >= 1).
     _ _ _ _ _ _ _
    |_ _ _ _      |                 7
    |_ _ _ _|_    |           4     3
    |_ _ _    |   |             5   2
    |_ _ _|_ _|_  |         3   2   2                                    _
    |_ _ _      | |               6 1                 1                 | |
    |_ _ _|_    | |         3     3 1                 1                 | |
    |_ _    |   | |           4   2 1                 1                 | |
    |_ _|_ _|_  | |       2   2   2 1                 1                _|_|
    |_ _ _    | | |             5 1 1               1 1               |   |
    |_ _ _|_  | | |         3   2 1 1               1 1              _|_ _|
    |_ _    | | | |           4 1 1 1             1 1 1             | |   |
    |_ _|_  | | | |       2   2 1 1 1             1 1 1            _|_|_ _|
    |_ _  | | | | |         3 1 1 1 1           1 1 1 1          _| |_ _ _|
    |_  | | | | | |       2 1 1 1 1 1         1 1 1 1 1      _ _|_ _|_ _ _|
    |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|     1 1 1 1 1 1 1     1 1 1 1 1 1 1     |_ _|_|_ _ _ _|
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       Figure 1.           Figure 2.        Figure 3.           Figure 4.
   Front view of the      Partitions        Position          Lateral view
  prism of partitions.       of 7.         of the 1's.        of the tower.
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                                                             _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                                                            |   | | | | |_|  1
                                                            |   | | |_|_ _|  2
                                                            |   |_|_  |_ _|  3
                                                            |_ _    |_ _ _|  4
                                                                |_  |_ _ _|  5
                                                                  |       |  6
                                                                  |_ _ _ _|  7
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                                                               Figure 5.
                                                               Top view
                                                             of the tower.
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Figure 1 is a two-dimensional diagram of the partitions of 7. The area of the diagram is A066186(7) = 105. Note that the diagram can be interpreted also as the front view of a right prism whose volumen is 1*7*A000041(7) = 1*7*15 = 105, equaling the volume of the tower that appears in the figures 4 and 5.
Figure 2 shows the partitions of 7 in accordance with the diagram.
Note that the shape and the area of the lateral view of the tower are the same as the shape and the area where the 1's are located in the diagram of partitions, see the figures 3 and 4. In this case the mentioned area equals A000070(7-1) = 30.
The connection between these two objects is a representation of the correspondence divisor/part described in A338156. See also A336812.
		

Crossrefs

Cf. A000041, A000070, A000203, A024916, A066186, A176206, A196020, A221529, A236104, A237593, A244050, A245092, A327329, A328366, A336811, A336812, A338156.

Programs

Mathematica

Accumulate @ Table[4 * PartitionsP[k-1] + 2 * DivisorSigma[1, k], {k, 1, 50}] (* Amiram Eldar, Jul 14 2021 *)

Formula

a(n) = 4*A000070(n-1) + 2*A024916(n).

a(n) = 4*A000070(n-1) + A327329(n).