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A (D,d)-polyominoid is a connected set of d-dimensional unit cubes (cells) with integer coordinates in D-dimensional space. For normal polyominoids, two cells are connected if they share a (d-1)-dimensional facet, but here we allow connections where the cells share a lower-dimensional face.

Each row is the counting sequence (by number of cells) of (D,d)-polyominoids with certain restrictions on the allowed connections between cells. Two cells have a connection of type (g,h) if they intersect in a (d-g)-dimensional unit cube and extend in d-h common dimensions. For example, d-dimensional polyominoes use connections of type (1,0), polyplets use connections of types (1,0) (edge connections) and (2,0) (corner connections), normal (3,2)-polyominoids use connections of types (1,0) ("soft" connections) and (1,1) ("hard" connections), hard polyominoids use connections of type (1,1).

Each row corresponds to a triple (D,d,C), where 1 <= d <= D and C is a set of pairs (g,h) with 1 <= g <= d and 0 <= h <= min(g, D-d). The k-th term of that row is the number of free k-celled (D,d)-polyominoids with connections of the types in C. Connections of types not in C are permitted, but the polyominoids must be connected through the specified connections only. For example, polyominoes may have cells that intersect in a point (g = 2) and hard polyominoids can have soft connections (h = 0) that are not needed to keep the polyominoids connected.

The rows are sorted first by D, then by d, and finally by a binary vector indicating which types of connections are allowed, where the connection types (g,h) are sorted lexicographically. (See table in cross-references.)

For each pair (D,d), the first row is 1, 0, 0, ..., corresponding to (D,d,{}) (no connections allowed).

The number of rows corresponding to given values of D and d is 2^((d+1)*(d+2)/2-1) if 2*d <= D and 2^((D-d+1)*(3*d-D+2)/2-1) otherwise.

a(1)-a(8) verified and a(9)-a(10) computed by John Mason.

If d > n, there are T(n,n) such polysticks. The triangle only includes the values for d <= n.