A350566 a(n) is the maximum permanent of an n X n matrix using the integers 1 to n^2.
1, 1, 14, 947, 161388, 56558003, 36757837732
Offset: 0
Examples
a(2) = 14: [2, 3; 4, 1] . a(3) = 947: [3, 7, 6; 9, 4, 1; 2, 5, 8] . a(4) = 161388: [ 2, 3, 16, 6; 11, 13, 4, 10; 8, 9, 5, 15; 14, 12, 1, 7] . a(5) = 56558003: [10, 2, 19, 25, 3; 11, 5, 23, 20, 8; 21, 14, 12, 9, 15; 13, 24, 6, 1, 18; 16, 17, 7, 4, 22] . a(6) = 36757837732: [32, 30, 3, 19, 23, 2; 1, 5, 34, 14, 11, 36; 17, 18, 15, 31, 22, 16; 29, 28, 7, 20, 24, 6; 26, 25, 10, 21, 27, 9; 4, 8, 35, 13, 12, 33]
Links
- Carl-Erik Fröberg, On a combinatorial problem related to permanents, BIT 28 (1988), No. 3, 406-411.
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Programs
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Python
from itertools import permutations from sympy import Matrix def A350566(n): return 1 if n == 0 else max(Matrix(n,n,p).per() for p in permutations(range(1,n**2+1))) # Chai Wah Wu, Jan 21 2022
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