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A000260
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Number of rooted simplicial 3-polytopes with n+3 nodes; or rooted 3-connected triangulations with 2n+2 faces; or rooted 3-connected trivalent maps with 2n+2 vertices.
(Formerly M2946 N1187)
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45
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1, 1, 3, 13, 68, 399, 2530, 16965, 118668, 857956, 6369883, 48336171, 373537388, 2931682810, 23317105140, 187606350645, 1524813969276, 12504654858828, 103367824774012, 860593023907540, 7211115497448720, 60776550501588855
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OFFSET
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0,3
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COMMENTS
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Number of rooted loopless planar maps with n edges. E.g., there are a(2)=3 loopless planar maps with 2 edges: two rooted paths (.-.-.) and one digon (.=.). - Valery A. Liskovets, Sep 25 2003
Number of intervals (i.e., ordered pairs (x,y) such that x<=y) in the Tamari lattice (rotation lattice of binary trees) of size n (see Pallo and Chapoton references). - Ralf Stephan, May 08 2007, Jean Pallo (Jean.Pallo(AT)u-bourgogne.fr), Sep 11 2007
Number of rooted triangulations of type [n, 0] (see Brown paper eq (4.8)). - Michel Marcus, Jun 23 2013
Equivalently, number of rooted bridgeless planar maps with n edges. - Noam Zeilberger, Oct 06 2016
The September 2018 talk by Noam Zeilberger (see link to video) connects three topics (planar maps, Tamari lattices, lambda calculus) and eight sequences: A000168, A000260, A000309, A000698, A000699, A002005, A062980, A267827. - N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 17 2018
Number of uniquely sorted permutations of [2n+1] that avoid the pattern 231. Also the number of uniquely sorted permutations of [2n+1] that avoid 132. - Colin Defant, Jun 13 2019
The sequence 1,3,13,68,... appears naturally in integral geometry, namely in the algebra of unitarily invariant valuations on complex space forms. - Andreas Bernig, Feb 02 2020
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REFERENCES
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C. F. Earl and L. J. March, Architectural applications of graph theory, pp. 327-355 of R. J. Wilson and L. W. Beineke, editors, Applications of Graph Theory. Academic Press, NY, 1979.
J. L. Gross and J. Yellen, eds., Handbook of Graph Theory, CRC Press, 2004; p. 714.
Handbook of Combinatorics, North-Holland '95, p. 891.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
W. T. Tutte, The enumerative theory of planar maps, in A Survey of Combinatorial Theory (J. N. Srivastava et al. eds.), pp. 437-448, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1973.
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LINKS
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FORMULA
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a(n) = 2*(4*n+1)! / ((n+1)!*(3*n+2)!) = binomial(4*n+1, n+1) - 9*binomial(4*n+1, n-1).
G.f.: hypergeom([1,1/2,3/4,5/4],[2,4/3,5/3],256*x/27) = 1 + 120*x/(Q(0)-120*x); Q(k) = 8*x*(2*k+1)*(4*k+3)*(4*k+5) + 3*(k+2)*(3*k+4)*(3*k+5) - 24*x*(k+2)*(2*k+3)*(3*k+4)*(3*k+5)*(4*k+7)*(4*k+9)/Q(k+1); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Nov 25 2011
a(n) = binomial(4*n + 2, n + 1) / ((2*n + 1) * (3*n + 2)). - Michael Somos, Mar 28 2012
0 = F(a(n), a(n+1), ..., a(n+8)) for all n in Z where a(-1) = 3/4 and F() is a polynomial of degree 2 with integer coefficients and 29 monomials. - Michael Somos, Dec 23 2014
D-finite with recurrence: 3*(3*n+2)*(3*n+1)*(n+1)*a(n) - 8*(4*n+1)*(2*n-1)*(4*n-1)*a(n-1) = 0. - R. J. Mathar, Oct 21 2015
a(n) ~ 2^(8*n+7/2) / (sqrt(Pi) * n^(5/2) * 3^(3*n+5/2)). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Feb 26 2016
E.g.f.: 3F3(1/2,3/4,5/4; 4/3,5/3,2; 256*x/27). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Feb 01 2017
G.f. y(x) satisfies:
0 = x^3*y^4 + 3*x^2*y^3 + x*(8*x+3)*y^2 - (20*x-1)*y + 16*x-1.
0 = x*(256*x - 27)*deriv(y,x) - 8*x^2*y^3 - 25*x*y^2 + 4*(24*x-11)*y + 44.
(End)
a(n) = Integral_{x=0...256/27} x^n*W(x), where
W(x) = (sqrt(2)/Pi)*(h1(x) - h2(x) + h3(x)) and
h1(x) = 3F2([-6/12,-2/12, 2/12], [ 3/12, 9/12], (27*x)/256)/((x/2)^(1/2));
h2(x) = 3F2([-3/12, 1/12, 5/12], [ 6/12, 15/12], (27*x)/256)/(x^(1/4));
h3(x) = 3F2([ 3/12, 7/12, 11/12], [18/12, 21/12], (27*x)/256)/(x^(-1/4)*32).
This integral representation is unique as the solution of n-th Hausdorff power moment of the function W. Using only the definition of a(n), W(x) can be proven to be positive. W(x) is singular at x = 0 and for x > 0 is monotonically decreasing to zero at x = 256/27. (End)
a(n) = (1/27^n) * Product_{1 <= i <= j <= 3*n} (3*i + j + 3)/(3*i + j - 1). Cf. A006013. - Peter Bala, Feb 21 2023
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EXAMPLE
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G.f. = 1 + x + 3*x^2 + 13*x^3 + 68*x^4 + 399*x^5 + 2530*x^6 + 16965*x^7 + ...
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MAPLE
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2*(4*n+1)!/((n+1)!*(3*n+2)!) ;
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MATHEMATICA
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Table[Binomial[4n+1, n+1]-9*Binomial[4n+1, n-1], {n, 0, 25}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 23 2011 *)
a[ n_] := SeriesCoefficient[ HypergeometricPFQ[ {1/2, 3/4, 1, 5/4}, {4/3, 5/3, 2}, 256/27 x], {x, 0, n}]; (* Michael Somos, Dec 23 2014 *)
terms = 22; G[_] = 0; Do[G[x_] = 1+x*G[x]^4 + O[x]^terms, terms];
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PROG
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(PARI) {a(n) = if( n<0, 0, 2 * (4*n + 1)! / ((n + 1)! * (3*n + 2)!))}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 07 2005 */
(PARI) {a(n) = binomial( 4*n + 2, n + 1) / ((2*n + 1) * (3*n + 2))}; /* Michael Somos, Mar 28 2012 */
(Sage)
def a(n):
n = ZZ(n)
return (4*n + 2).binomial(n + 1) // ((2*n + 1) * (3*n + 2))
(Magma) [Binomial(4*n+1, n+1)-9*Binomial(4*n+1, n-1): n in [0..25]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 24 2016
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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nonn,nice,easy
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STATUS
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approved
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