A370062 Array read by antidiagonals: T(n,k) is the number of achiral dissections of a polygon into n k-gons by nonintersecting diagonals, n >= 1, k >= 3.

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 3, 4, 7, 5, 1, 1, 3, 5, 9, 12, 5, 1, 1, 4, 6, 18, 22, 30, 14, 1, 1, 4, 7, 21, 35, 52, 55, 14, 1, 1, 5, 8, 34, 51, 136, 140, 143, 42, 1, 1, 5, 9, 38, 70, 190, 285, 340, 273, 42, 1, 1, 6, 10, 55, 92, 368, 506, 1155, 969, 728, 132

Offset: 1

Author

Andrew Howroyd, Feb 08 2024

Keywords

• nonn
• tabl

Comments

The polygon prior to dissection will have n*(k-2)+2 sides.

Examples

			Array begins:
=============================================
n\k|  3   4   5    6    7    8    9    10 ...
---+-----------------------------------------
1  |  1   1   1    1    1    1    1     1 ...
2  |  1   1   1    1    1    1    1     1 ...
3  |  1   2   2    3    3    4    4     5 ...
4  |  2   3   4    5    6    7    8     9 ...
5  |  2   7   9   18   21   34   38    55 ...
6  |  5  12  22   35   51   70   92   117 ...
7  |  5  30  52  136  190  368  468   775 ...
8  | 14  55 140  285  506  819 1240  1785 ...
9  | 14 143 340 1155 1950 4495 6545 12350 ...
  ...
		

Links

• Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1275 (first 50 antidiagonals)
• F. Harary, E. M. Palmer and R. C. Read, On the cell-growth problem for arbitrary polygons, Discr. Math. 11 (1975), 371-389.
• Wikipedia, Fuss-Catalan number

Crossrefs

Columns are A208355(n-1), A047749 (k=4), A369472 (k=5), A143546 (k=6), A143547 (k=8), A143554 (k=10), A192893 (k=12).

Cf. A070914 (rooted), A295224 (oriented), A295260 (unoriented), A369929, A370060 (achiral rooted at cell).

Programs

PARI

\\ here u is Fuss-Catalan sequence with p = k-1.
u(n, k, r) = {r*binomial((k - 1)*n + r, n)/((k - 1)*n + r)}
T(n, k) = {(if(n%2, u((n-1)/2, k, k\2), if(k%2, u(n/2-1, k, k-1), u(n/2, k, 1))))}
for(n=1, 9, for(k=3, 10, print1(T(n, k), ", ")); print);

Formula

T(n,k) = 2*A295260(n,k) - A295224(n,k).

T(n,2*k+1) = A370060(n,2*k+1).

T(n,2*k) = A369929(n,2*k-1).