A006070 Number of Hamiltonian paths on n-cube which are strictly not cycles. (Formerly M5295)

0, 0, 48, 48384, 129480729600

Offset

1,3

Comments

Number of Gray codes of length n which strictly do not close.

More precisely, this is the number of ways of making a list of the 2^n nodes of the n-cube, with a distinguished starting position and a direction, such that each node is adjacent to the previous one and the last node is not adjacent to the first.

References

M. Gardner, Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments. Freeman, NY, 1986, p. 24.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..5.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Hypercube Graph

Formula

a(n) = A091299(n) - A006069(n). - Andrew Howroyd, Dec 25 2021

Example

There are no such paths for n=1 or n=2 (the square). For n = 3 every path has to end at the node of the cube that is diametrically opposite to the start. There are 16 choices for the start and for each start there are 3 Hamiltonian paths that end at the opposite node, so a(3) = 3*16 = 48.

Crossrefs

Cf. A006069, A091299.

Sequence in context: A011787 A345646 A292516 * A081262 A340186 A238001

Adjacent sequences: A006067 A006068 A006069 * A006071 A006072 A006073

Keyword

nonn,hard,more

Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Extensions

a(5) from Greg Barton (greg_barton(AT)yahoo.com), May 24 2004

Status

approved