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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

Non-vanishing diagonal of (A132440)^4/4. Third subdiagonal of unsigned A238363 without the zero. Cf. A130534 for relations to colored forests, disposition of flags on flagpoles, and colorings of the vertices of the complete graph K_4. - Tom Copeland, Apr 05 2014

Total number of pips on a set of trominoes (3-armed dominoes) with up to n pips on each arm. - Alan Shore and N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 06 2016

Also the number of minimum connected dominating sets in the (n+2)-crown graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, Jun 29 2017

Crossing number of the (n+3)-cocktail party graph (conjectured). - Eric W. Weisstein, Apr 29 2019

Sum of all numbers in ordered triples (x,y,z) where 0 <= x <= y <= z <= n. - Edward Krogius, Jul 31 2022

A000295 (Eulerian numbers) gives the row sums.

Write A004736 and Pascal's triangle as infinite lower triangular matrices A and B; then A*B is this triangle.

From Peter Luschny, Apr 10 2011: (Start)

A slight variation has a combinatorial interpretation: remove the last column and the second one from Pascal's triangle. Let P(m, k) denote the set partitions of {1,2,..,n} with the following properties:

(a) Each partition has at least one singleton block;

(c) k is the size of the largest block of the partition;

(b) m = n - k + 1 is the number of parts of the partition.

Then A000295(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} card(P(n-k+1,k)).

For instance, A000295(4) = P(4,1) + P(3,2) + P(2,3) + P(1,4) = card({1|2|3|4}) + card({1|2|34, 1|3|24,1|4|23, 2|3|14, 2|4|13, 3|4|12}) + card({1|234, 2|134, 3|124, 4|123}) = 1 + 6 + 4 = 11.

This interpretation can be superimposed on the sequence by changing the offset to 1 and adding the value 1 in front. The triangle then starts

1;

1, 3;

1, 6, 4;

1, 10, 10, 5;

1, 15, 20, 15, 6;

...

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Diagonal sums are A001924(n+1). - Philippe Deléham, Jan 11 2014

Relation to K-theory: T acting on the column vector (d,-d^2,d^3,...) generates the Euler classes for a hypersurface of degree d in CP^n. Cf. Dugger p. 168, A111492, A238363, and A135278. - Tom Copeland, Apr 11 2014

For prime rows, these appear to be evaluations of Moreau's necklace polynomials at the integers with several combinatorial interpretations (see Wikipedia link). - Tom Copeland, Oct 20 2014

From Petros Hadjicostas, Nov 05 2017: (Start)

The g.f. for column k follows easily from I. Gessel's formulas for this sequence. Since S(1,k) = k-1, we have T(1,k) = k + S(1,k) - (k - 1). Thus, Sum_{n >= 1} T(n,k)*x^n = k*x + Sum_{n >= 1} (1/n)*Sum_{d|n} (k - 1)^d*phi(n/d)*x^n - Sum_{s=0} (k-1)*x^{2*s+1}. Letting m = n/d, we get that (column k g.f.) = k*x - (k - 1)*x/(1 -x^2) + Sum_{m >= 1} (phi(m)/m)*Sum_{d >= 1}((k - 1)*x^m)^d/d. But Sum_{d>=1} z^d/d = -log(1 - z), and so (column k g.f.) = k*x - (k - 1)*x/(1 - x^2) - Sum_{m >= 1} (phi(m)/m)*log(1 - (k - 1)*x^m).

The other formula for the g.f. of column k of this sequence follows from the formula Sum_{n >= 1} (phi(n)/n)*log(1 + t^n) = t/(1 - t^2), which in turn follows from the well-known series Sum_{n >= 1} phi(n)*t^n/(1 + t^n) = t*(1 + t^2)/(1 - t^2)^2.

The extra term k*x in the g.f. for column k is due to the fact that we conventionally assume that a necklace with only one bead, colored with one of the k colors available, is such that there are "no adjacent beads having the same color" (even though, strictly speaking, a single bead is adjacent to itself when we go around the circle of the necklace).

One can use the g.f. for column k to derive the so-called "Empirical for row n" formulae that are denoted by a(k) and given in the formula section below (from n = 1 to n = 7). For example, for n = 3, a(k) = a(k, x=0), where a(k, x) = (1/3!)*d^3/dx^3 (column k g.f.). Here, d^3/dx^3 stands for "third derivative w.r.t. x". If we let f(x) = x/(1 - x^2) and g(x, m) = -log(1 - (k - 1)*x^m), then f^{(3)}(0) = 6, while g^{(3)}(0,m) = 2*(k - 1)^3 for m = 1, 0 for m=2, 6*(k - 1) for m = 3, and 0 for m >= 4. Then, a(k) = (1/6)*(-6*(k - 1) + 2*(k - 1)^3 + (2/3)*6*(k - 1)) = (1/3)*k^3 - k^2 + (2/3)*k. Using this method, one can derive an "Empirical for row n" formula for a(k) for any positive integer n. (End)

The n-th row consists of coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of the adjacency matrix of the complete n-graph.

Triangle of coefficients of det(M(n)) where M(n) is the n X n matrix m(i,j)=x if i=j, m(i,j)=i/j otherwise. - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 01 2003

T is an example of the group of matrices outlined in the table in A132382--the associated matrix for rB(0,1). The e.g.f. for the row polynomials is exp(x*t) * exp(x) *(1-x). T(n,k) = Binomial(n,k)* s(n-k) where s = (1,0,-1,-2,-3,...) with an e.g.f. of exp(x)*(1-x) which is the reciprocal of the e.g.f. of A000166. - Tom Copeland, Sep 10 2008

Row sums are: {1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...}. - Roger L. Bagula, Feb 20 2009

T is related to an operational calculus connecting an infinitesimal generator for fractional integro-derivatives with the values of the Riemann zeta function at positive integers (see MathOverflow links). - Tom Copeland, Nov 02 2012

The submatrix below the null subdiagonal is signed and row reversed A127717. The submatrix below the diagonal is A074909(n,k)s(n-k) where s(n)= -n, i.e., multiply the n-th diagonal by -n. A074909 and its reverse A135278 have several combinatorial interpretations. - Tom Copeland, Nov 04 2012

T(n,k) is the difference between the number of even (A145224) and odd (A145225) permutations (of an n-set) with exactly k fixed points. - Julian Hatfield Iacoponi, Aug 08 2024

For k > 1, a(n,k) = the number of permutations of the symmetric group S_n that are pure k-cycles.

Reverse signed array is A238363. For a relation to (Cauchy-Euler) derivatives of the Vandermonde determinant, see Chervov link. - Tom Copeland, Apr 10 2014

Dividing the k-th column of T by (k-1)! for each column generates A135278 (the f-vectors, or face-vectors for the n-simplices). Then ignoring the first column gives A104712, so T acting on the column vector (-0,d,-d^2/2!,d^3/3!,...) gives the Euler classes for hypersurfaces of degree d in CP^n. Cf. A104712 and Dugger link therein. - Tom Copeland, Apr 11 2014

With initial i,j,n=1, given the n X n Vandermonde matrix V_n(x_1,...,x_n) with elements a(i=row,j=column)=(x_j)^(i-1), its determinant |V_n|, and the column vector of n ones C=(1,1,...,1), the n-th row of the lower triangular matrix T is given by the column vector determined by (1/|V_n|) * V_n(:x_1*d/dx_1:,...,:x_n*d/dx_n:)|V_n| * C, where :x_j*d/dx_j:^n = (x_j)^n*(d/dx_j)^n. - Tom Copeland, May 20 2014

For some other combinatorial interpretations of the first three columns of T, see A208535 and the link to necklace polynomials therein. Because of the simple relation of the array to the Pascal triangle, it can easily be related to many other arrays, e.g., T(p,k)/(p*(k-1)!) with p prime gives the prime rows of A185158 and A051168 when the non-integers are rounded to 0. - Tom Copeland, Oct 23 2014

Generate signatures in accordance with A086141. Map to partitions in accordance with A025487. Calculate the number of permutations in accordance with Abramowitz and Stegun, p. 831 (reference M2). Display the results as illustrated by A090774. The second array is:

3

20 15

90 120 45

504 630 420 105

...

Apart from the main diagonal, appears to be the same as A211603 (see also A238363) and is related to the infinitesimal generator of A008290; if so, the off-diagonal triangle entries are given by binomial(n,k)*(n-k-1)! for n >= 2 and 0 <= k <= n-2. - Peter Bala, Feb 13 2017

Let aut(p) denote the size of the centralizer of the partition p (see A339016 for the definition). Then row(n) = [n!/aut(p) for p in P], where P are the partitions of n with largest part k and length n + 1 - k. Row sums are A121726. - Peter Luschny, Nov 19 2020

The associated Laguerre polynomials n!*Lag(n,3-n,-x) are related to the rook polynomials of a rectangular 3 X n chessboard by R(3,n,x) = n!*x^n*Lag(n,3-n,-1/x), which are also the matching polynomials, or generating function of the number of k-edge matchings, of the complete bipartite graph K(m,n), or biclique (cf. Wikipedia for details).

The formulas here and below can be naturally extended with 3 replaced by any positive integer m. For m = 1 and 2, see unsigned A132013 and A132014. The formulas there can be extrapolated to apply to this matrix.

Equivalently, T(n,k) is the number of n-permutations that are pure cycles of length n-k.

Row sums = A006231.

With a different row and column indexing, this triangle equals the infinitesimal generator of A008290. Equals the unsigned version of A238363, omitting its main diagonal. See also A092271. - Peter Bala, Feb 13 2017

Third column of Sheffer type triangle A238363 (without leading zeros).