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a(n) is sum of the (flattened) list obtained by the iteration of: replace each integer k with the list 0,...,k+1 on the starting value 0. Length of this list is Catalan(n) or A000108. - Wouter Meeussen, Nov 11 2001

a(n-2) is the number of n-th generation vertices in the tree of sequences with unit increase labeled by 3 (cf. Zoran Sunic reference). - Benoit Cloitre, Oct 07 2003

Number of standard tableaux of shape (n+2,n-1). - Emeric Deutsch, May 30 2004

a(n) = CatalanNumber(n+3) - 2*CatalanNumber(n+2). Proof. From its definition as a convolution of Catalan numbers, a(n) counts lists of 4 Dyck paths of total size (semilength) = n. Connect the 4 paths by 3 upsteps (U) and append 3 downsteps (D). This is a reversible procedure. So a(n) is also the number of Dyck (n+3)-paths that end DDD (D for downstep). Let C(n) denote CatalanNumber(n) (A000108). Since C(n+3) is the total number of Dyck (n+3)-paths and C(n+2) is the number that end UD, we have (*) C(n+3) - C(n+2) is the number of Dyck (n+3)-paths that end DD. Also, (**) C(n+2) is the number of Dyck (n+3)-paths that end UDD (change the last D in a Dyck (n+2)-path to UDD). Subtracting (**) from (*) yields a(n) = C(n+3) - 2C(n+2) as claimed. - David Callan, Nov 21 2006

Convolution square of the Catalan sequence without one of the initial "1"'s: (1 + 4x + 14x^2 + 48x^3 + ...) = (1/x^2) * square(x + 2x^2 + 5x^3 + 14x^4 + ...)

a(n) is the number of binary trees with n+3 internal nodes in which both subtrees of the root are nonempty. Cf. A068875 [Sedgewick and Flajolet]. - Geoffrey Critzer, Jan 05 2013

With offset 4, a(n) is the number of permutations on {1,2,...,n} that are 123-avoiding, i.e., do not contain a three-term monotone subsequence, for which the first ascent is at positions (4,5); for example, there are 48 123-avoiding permutations on n=7 for which the first ascent is at spots (4,5). See Connolly link. There it is shown in general that the k-th Catalan Convolution is the number of 123-avoiding permutations for which the first ascent is at (k, k+1). (For n=k, the first ascent is defined to be at positions (k,k+1) if the permutation is the decreasing permutation with no ascents.) - Anant Godbole, Jan 17 2014

With offset 4, a(n) is the number of permutations on {1,2,...,n} that are 123-avoiding and for which the integer n is in the 4th spot; see Connolly link. - Anant Godbole, Jan 17 2014

a(n) is the number of North-East lattice paths from (0,0) to (n+2,n+2) that have exactly one east step below the subdiagonal y = x-1. Details can be found in Section 3.1 in Pan and Remmel's link. - Ran Pan, Feb 04 2016

a(n) is the number of North-East lattice paths from (0,0) to (n+2,n+2) that bounce off the diagonal y = x to the right exactly once but do not bounce off y = x to the left. Details can be found in Section 4.2 in Pan and Remmel's link. - Ran Pan, Feb 04 2016

a(n) is the number of North-East lattice paths from (0,0) to (n+2,n+2) that horizontally cross the diagonal y = x exactly once but do not cross the diagonal vertically. Details can be found in Section 4.3 in Pan and Remmel's link. - Ran Pan, Feb 04 2016

Apparently also Young tableaux of (non-partition) shape [n+1, 1, 1, n+1], see example file. - Joerg Arndt, Dec 30 2023

This triangle is an unsigned version of the triangle of Stirling numbers of the first kind, A008275, which is the main entry for these numbers. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 25 2011

Or, triangle T(n,k), 0 <= k <= n, read by rows given by [1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,...] DELTA [1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,...] where DELTA is the operator defined in A084938.

Reversal of A094638.

Equals A132393*A007318, as infinite lower triangular matrices. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 13 2007

From Johannes W. Meijer, Oct 07 2009: (Start)

The higher order exponential integrals E(x,m,n) are defined in A163931. The asymptotic expansion of the exponential integrals E(x,m=1,n) ~ (exp(-x)/x)*(1 - n/x + n*(n+1)/x^2 - n*(n+1)*(n+2)/x^3 + ...), see Abramowitz and Stegun. This formula follows from the general formula for the asymptotic expansion, see A163932. We rewrite E(x,m=1,n) ~ (exp(-x)/x)*(1 - n/x + (n^2+n)/x^2 - (2*n+3*n^2+n^3)/x^3 + (6*n+11*n^2+6*n^3+n^4)/x^3 - ...) and observe that the T(n,m) are the polynomials coefficients in the denominators. Looking at the a(n,m) formula of A028421, A163932 and A163934, and shifting the offset given above to 1, we can write T(n-1,m-1) = a(n,m) = (-1)^(n+m)*Stirling1(n,m), see the Maple program.

The asymptotic expansion leads for values of n from one to eleven to known sequences, see the cross-references. With these sequences one can form the triangles A008279 (right-hand columns) and A094587 (left-hand columns).

See A163936 for information about the o.g.f.s. of the right-hand columns of this triangle.

(End)

The number of elements greater than i to the left of i in a permutation gives the i-th element of the inversion vector. (Skiena-Pemmaraju 2003, p. 69.) T(n,k) is the number of n-permutations that have exactly k 0's in their inversion vector. See evidence in Mathematica code below. - Geoffrey Critzer, May 07 2010

T(n,k) counts the rooted trees with k+1 trunks in forests of "naturally grown" rooted trees with n+2 nodes. This corresponds to sums of coefficients of iterated derivatives representing vectors, Lie derivatives, or infinitesimal generators for flow fields and formal group laws. Cf. links in A139605. - Tom Copeland, Mar 23 2014

A refinement is A036039. - Tom Copeland, Mar 30 2014

From Tom Copeland, Apr 05 2014: (Start)

With initial n=1 and row polynomials of T as p(n,x)=x(x+1)...(x+n-1), the powers of x correspond to the number of trunks of the rooted trees of the "naturally-grown" forest referred to above. With each trunk allowed m colors, p(n,m) gives the number of such non-plane colored trees for the forest with each tree having n+1 vertices.

p(2,m) = m + m^2 = A002378(m) = 2*A000217(m) = 2*(first subdiag of |A238363|).

p(3,m) = 2m + 3m^2 + m^3 = A007531(m+2) = 3*A007290(m+2) = 3*(second subdiag A238363).

p(4,m) = 6m + 11m^2 + 6m^3 + m^4 = A052762(m+3) = 4*A033487(m) = 4*(third subdiag).

From the Joni et al. link, p(n,m) also represents the disposition of n distinguishable flags on m distinguishable flagpoles.

The chromatic polynomial for the complete graph K_n is the falling factorial, which encodes the colorings of the n vertices of K_n and gives a shifted version of p(n,m).

E.g.f. for the row polynomials: (1-y)^(-x).

(End)

A relation to derivatives of the determinant |V(n)| of the n X n Vandermonde matrix V(n) in the indeterminates c(1) thru c(n):

|V(n)| = Product_{1<=jTom Copeland, Apr 10 2014

From Peter Bala, Jul 21 2014: (Start)

Let M denote the lower unit triangular array A094587 and for k = 0,1,2,... define M(k) to be the lower unit triangular block array

/I_k 0\

\ 0 M/

having the k X k identity matrix I_k as the upper left block; in particular, M(0) = M. Then the present triangle equals the infinite matrix product M(0)*M(1)*M(2)*... (which is clearly well defined). See the Example section. (End)

For the relation of this rising factorial to the moments of Viennot's Laguerre stories, see the Hetyei link, p. 4. - Tom Copeland, Oct 01 2015

Can also be seen as the Bell transform of n! without column 0 (and shifted enumeration). For the definition of the Bell transform see A264428. - Peter Luschny, Jan 27 2016

a(n) is also the sum of the positions of the right-to-left minima in all permutations of [n]. Example: a(3)=26 because the positions of the right-to-left minima in the permutations 123,132,213,231,312 and 321 are 123, 13, 23, 3, 23 and 3, respectively and 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 3 = 26. - Emeric Deutsch, Sep 22 2008

The asymptotic expansion of the higher order exponential integral E(x,m=2,n=2) ~ exp(-x)/x^2*(1 - 5/x + 26/x^2 - 154/x^3 + 1044/x^4 - 8028/x^5 + 69264/x^6 - ...) leads to the sequence given above. See A163931 and A028421 for more information. - Johannes W. Meijer, Oct 20 2009

a(n) is the total number of cycles (excluding fixed points) in all permutations of [n+1]. - Olivier Gérard, Oct 23 2012; Dec 31 2012

A length n sequence is formed by randomly selecting (one-by-one) n real numbers in (0,1). a(n)/(n+1)! is the expected value of the sum of the new maximums in such a sequence. For example for n=3: If we select (in this order): 0.591996, 0.646474, 0.163659 we would add 0.591996 + 0.646474 which would be a bit above the average of a(3)/4! = 26/24. - Geoffrey Critzer, Oct 17 2013

Stirling transform of (-1)^n*a(n-1) = [0, 1, -1, 5, -14, 94, ...] is A000629(n-2) = [0, 1, 2, 6, 26, ...]. - Michael Somos, Mar 04 2004

Stirling transform of a(n) = [1, 1, 5, 14, 94, ...] is A052882(n) = [1, 2, 9, 52, 375, ...]. - Michael Somos, Mar 04 2004

a(n) is the number of n-permutations that have a cycle with length greater than n/2. - Geoffrey Critzer, May 28 2009

From Jens Voß, May 07 2010: (Start)

a(4n) is divisible by 6*n + 1 for all n >= 1; the quotient of a(4*n) and 6*n+1 is A177188(n).

a(4*n+3) is divisible by 6*n + 5 for all n >= 0; the quotient of a(4*n+3) and 6*n + 5 is A177174(n). (End)

Number of permutations of n elements with exactly 3 cycles.

The asymptotic expansion of the higher order exponential integral E(x,m=3,n=1) ~ exp(-x)/x^3*(1 - 6/x + 35/x^2 - 225/x^3 + 1624/x^4 - 13132/x^5 + ...) leads to the sequence given above. See A163931 and A163932 for more information. - Johannes W. Meijer, Oct 20 2009

Previous name was: Number triangle f(n, k) from n-th differences of the sequence {1/m^2}{m >= 1}, for n >= 0; the n-th difference sequence is {(-1)^n*n!*P(n, m)/D(n, m)^2}{m >= 1} where P(n, x) is the row polynomial P(n, x) = Sum_{k=0..n} f(n,k)*x^k and D(n, x) = x*(x+1)*...*(x+n).

From Johannes W. Meijer, Oct 07 2009: (Start)

The higher-order exponential integrals E(x,m,n) are defined in A163931 and the general formula of the asymptotic expansion of E(x,m,n) can be found in A163932.

We used the general formula and the asymptotic expansion of E(x,m=1,n), see A130534, to determine that E(x,m=2,n) ~ (exp(-x)/x^2)*(1 - (1+2*n)/x + (2 + 6*n + 3*n^2)/x^2 - (6 + 22*n + 18*n^2 + 4*n^3)/x^3 + ...) which can be verified with the EA(x,2,n) formula, see A163932. The coefficients in the denominators of this expansion lead to the sequence given above.

The asymptotic expansion of E(x,m=2,n) leads for n from one to ten to known sequences, see the cross-references. With these sequences one can form the triangles A165674 (left hand columns) and A093905 (right hand columns).

(End)

For connections to an operator relation between log(x) and x^n(d/dx)^n, see A238363. - Tom Copeland, Feb 28 2014

From Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 25 2018: (Start)

The signed triangle t(n, k) := (-1)^{n-k}*f(n, k) gives (n+1)*N(-1;n,x) = Sum_{k=0..n} t(n, k)*x^k, where N(-1;n,x) are the Narumi polynomials with parameter a = -1 (see the Weisstein link).

The members of the n-th difference sequence of the sequence {1/m^2}_{m>=1} mentioned above satisfies the recurrence delta(n, m) = delta(n-1, m+1) - delta(n-1, m), for n >= 1, m >= 1, with input delta(0, m) = 1/m^2. The solution is delta(n, m) = (n+1)!*N(-1;n,-m)/risefac(m, n+1)^2, with Narumi polynomials N(-1;n,x) and the rising factorials risefac(x, n+1) = D(n, x) = x*(x+1)*...*(x+n).

The above mentioned row polynomials P satisfy P(n, x) = (-1)^n*(n + 1)*N(-1;n,-x), for n >= 0. The recurrence is P(n, x) = (-x^2*P(n-1, x+1) + (n+x)^2*P(n-1, x))/n, for n >= 1, and P(0, x) = 1. (End)

The triangle is the exponential Riordan square (cf. A321620) of -log(1-x) with an additional main diagonal of zeros. - Peter Luschny, Jan 03 2019

The asymptotic expansion of the higher order exponential integral E(x,m=2,n=3) ~ exp(-x)/x^2*(1 - 7/x + 47/x^2 - 342/x^3 + 2754/x^4 - 24552/x^5 + 241128/x^6 - ...) leads to the sequence given above. See A163931 and A028421 for more information. - Johannes W. Meijer, Oct 20 2009

For n > 4, a(n) mod n = 0 for n composite, = n-3 for n prime. - Gary Detlefs, Jul 18 2011

From Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 11 2020: (Start)

For nonnegative integers n, m and complex numbers a, b (with b <> 0), the numbers R_n^m(a,b) were introduced by Mitrinovic (1961) using slightly different notation. They were further examined by Mitrinovic and Mitrinovic (1962).

These numbers are defined via the g.f. Product_{r=0..n-1} (x - (a + b*r)) = Sum_{m=0..n} R_n^m(a,b)*x^m for n >= 0.

As a result, R_n^m(a,b) = R_{n-1}^{m-1}(a,b) - (a + b*(n-1))*R_{n-1}^m(a,b) for n >= m >= 1 with R_1^0(a,b) = a, R_1^1(a,b) = 1, and R_n^m(a,b) = 0 for n < m. (Because an empty product is by definition 1, we may let R_0^0(a,b) = 1.)

With a = 0 and b = 1, we get the Stirling numbers of the first kind S1(n,m) = R_n^m(a=0, b=1) = A048994(n,m). (Array A008275 is the same as array A048994 but with no zero row and no zero column.)

We have R_n^m(a,b) = Sum_{k=0}^{n-m} (-1)^k * a^k * b^(n-m-k) * binomial(m+k, k) * S1(n, m+k) for n >= m >= 0.

For the current sequence, a(n) = R_{n+1}^1(a=-3, b=-1) for n >= 0. (End)

The higher order exponential integrals E(x,m,n) are defined in A163931. The general formula for the asymptotic expansion E(x,m,n) ~ E(x,m-1,n+1)/x - n*E(x,m-1,n+2)/x^2 + n*(n+1) * E(x,m-1,n+3)/x^3 - n*(n+1)*(n+2)*E(x,m-1,n+4)/x^4 + ...., m >= 1 and n >= 1.

We used this formula and the asymptotic expansion of E(x,m=2,n), see A028421, to determine that E (x,m=3,n) ~ (exp(-x)/x^3)*(1 - (3+3*n)/x + (11+18*n+6*n^2)/x^2 - (50+105*n+ 60*n^2+ 10*n^3)/x^3 + .. ). This formula leads to the triangle coefficients given above.

The asymptotic expansion leads for the values of n from one to ten to known sequences, see the cross-references.

The numerators of the o.g.f.s. of the right hand columns of this triangle lead for z=1 to A001879, see A163938 for more information.

The first Maple program generates the sequence given above and the second program generates the asymptotic expansion of E(x,m=3,n).

The asymptotic expansion of the higher order exponential integral E(x,m=2,n=4) ~ exp(-x)/x^2*(1 - 9/x + 74/x^2 - 638/x^3 + 5944/x^4 - 60216/x^5 + 662640/x^6 - ...) leads to the sequence given above. See A163931 and A028421 for more information. - Johannes W. Meijer, Oct 20 2009

From Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 23 2020: (Start)

For nonnegative integers n, m and complex numbers a, b (with b <> 0), the numbers R_n^m(a,b) were introduced by Mitrinovic (1961) and Mitrinovic and Mitrinovic (1962) using slightly different notation.

These numbers are defined via the g.f. Product_{r=0..n-1} (x - (a + b*r)) = Sum_{m=0..n} R_n^m(a,b)*x^m for n >= 0.

As a result, R_n^m(a,b) = R_{n-1}^{m-1}(a,b) - (a + b*(n-1))*R_{n-1}^m(a,b) for n >= m >= 1 with R_0^0(a,b) = 1, R_1^0(a,b) = a, R_1^1(a,b) = 1, and R_n^m(a,b) = 0 for n < m.

With a = 0 and b = 1, we get the Stirling numbers of the first kind S1(n,m) = R_n^m(a=0, b=1) = A048994(n,m) for n, m >= 0.

We have R_n^m(a,b) = Sum_{k=0}^{n-m} (-1)^k * a^k * b^(n-m-k) * binomial(m+k, k) * S1(n, m+k) for n >= m >= 0.

For the current sequence, a(n) = R_{n+1}^1(a=-4, b=-1) for n >= 0. (End)

Coefficient of x^2 in Product_{k=0..n}(x + k^2). - Ralf Stephan, Aug 22 2004

p divides a(p-1) for prime p > 3. p divides a((p-1)/2) for prime p > 3. For prime p, p^2 divides a(n) for n > 2*p+1. - Alexander Adamchuk, Jul 11 2006; last comment corrected by Michel Marcus, May 20 2020

The ratio a(n)/A001044(n) is the partial sum of the reciprocals of squares. E.g., a(4)/A001044(4) = 820/576 = 1/1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16. - Pierre CAMI, Oct 30 2006

a(n) is the (n-1)-st elementary symmetric function of the squares of the first n numbers. - Anton Zakharov, Nov 06 2016

Primes p such that p^2 | a(p-1) are the Wolstenholme primes A088164. - Amiram Eldar and Thomas Ordowski, Aug 08 2019