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A000399 Unsigned Stirling numbers of first kind s(n,3).
(Formerly M4218 N1762)
29
1, 6, 35, 225, 1624, 13132, 118124, 1172700, 12753576, 150917976, 1931559552, 26596717056, 392156797824, 6165817614720, 102992244837120, 1821602444624640, 34012249593822720, 668609730341153280, 13803759753640704000 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
3,2
COMMENTS
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
REFERENCES
M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math. Series 55, 1964 (and various reprintings), p. 833.
L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 217.
F. N. David, M. G. Kendall and D. E. Barton, Symmetric Function and Allied Tables, Cambridge, 1966, p. 226.
Shanzhen Gao, Permutations with Restricted Structure (in preparation). - Shanzhen Gao, Sep 14 2010
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).
LINKS
T. D. Noe and Robert Israel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 3..412 (3..100 from T. D. Noe)
M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972 [alternative scanned copy].
Sergey Kitaev and Jeffrey Remmel, Simple marked mesh patterns, arXiv:1201.1323 [math.CO], 2012.
Sergey Kitaev and Jeffrey Remmel, Quadrant Marked Mesh Patterns, J. Int. Seq. 15 (2012), #12.4.7.
FORMULA
Let P(n-1,X) = (X+1)(X+2)(X+3)...(X+n-1); then a(n) is the coefficient of X^2; or a(n) = P''(n-1,0)/2!. - Benoit Cloitre, May 09 2002 [Edited by Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 29 2020 to agree with the offset 3]
E.g.f.: -log(1-x)^3/3!.
a(n) is the coefficient of x^(n+3) in (-log(1-x))^3, multiplied by (n+3)!/6.
a(n) = ((Sum_{i=1..n-1} 1/i)^2 - Sum_{i=1..n-1} 1/i^2)*(n-1)!/2 for n >= 3. - Klaus Strassburger (strass(AT)ddfi.uni-duesseldorf.de), Jan 18 2000
a(n) = det(|S(i+3,j+2)|, 1 <= i,j <= n-3), where S(n,k) are Stirling numbers of the second kind. - Mircea Merca, Apr 06 2013
a(n) = Gamma(n)*(HarmonicNumber(n-1)^2 + Zeta(2,n) - Zeta(2))/2. - Gerry Martens, Jul 05 2015
From Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 28 2020: (Start)
a(n) = (n-3)! + (2*n-3)*a(n-1) - (n-2)^2*a(n-2) for n >= 5.
a(n) = 3*(n-2)*a(n-1) - (3*n^2-15*n+19)*a(n-2) + (n-3)^3*a(n-3) for n >= 6. (End)
EXAMPLE
(-log(1-x))^3 = x^3 + 3/2*x^4 + 7/4*x^5 + 15/8*x^6 + ...
MAPLE
seq(abs(Stirling1(n, 3)), n=3..30); # Robert Israel, Jul 05 2015
MATHEMATICA
a=Log[1/(1-x)]; Range[0, 20]! CoefficientList[Series[a^3/3!, {x, 0, 20}], x]
f[n_] := Abs@ StirlingS1[n, 3]; Array[f, 19, 3]
Abs[StirlingS1[Range[3, 30], 3]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jun 23 2014 *)
f[n_] := Gamma[n]*(HarmonicNumber[n - 1]^2 + Zeta[2, n] - Zeta[2])/2; Array[f, 19, 3] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 05 2015 *)
PROG
(MuPAD) f := proc(n) option remember; begin n^3*f(n-3)-(3*n^2+3*n+1)*f(n-2)+3*(n+1)*f(n-1) end_proc: f(0) := 1: f(1) := 6: f(2) := 35:
(PARI) for(n=2, 50, print1(polcoeff(prod(i=1, n, x+i), 2, x), ", "))
(Sage) [stirling_number1(i+2, 3) for i in range(1, 22)] # Zerinvary Lajos, Jun 27 2008
(Magma) A000399:=func< n | Abs(StirlingFirst(n, 3)) >; [ A000399(n): n in [3..25] ]; // Klaus Brockhaus, Jan 14 2011
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A354324 A213452 A357834 * A081051 A145145 A367234
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved

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