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A193641 Number of arrays of -1..1 integers x(1..n) with every x(i) in a subsequence of length 1 or 2 with sum zero. 9

%I #40 Jul 15 2022 18:48:20

%S 1,3,7,15,33,73,161,355,783,1727,3809,8401,18529,40867,90135,198799,

%T 438465,967065,2132929,4704323,10375711,22884351,50473025,111321761,

%U 245527873,541528771,1194379303,2634286479,5810101729,12814582761

%N Number of arrays of -1..1 integers x(1..n) with every x(i) in a subsequence of length 1 or 2 with sum zero.

%C Column 1 of A193648.

%C Or yet empirical: row sums of triangle

%C m/k | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

%C ==================================================

%C 0 | 1

%C 1 | 1 2

%C 2 | 1 2 4

%C 3 | 1 2 4 8

%C 4 | 1 4 4 8 16

%C 5 | 1 4 12 8 16 32

%C 6 | 1 4 12 32 16 32 64

%C 7 | 1 6 12 32 80 32 64 128

%C which is triangle for numbers 2^k*C(m,k) with triplicated diagonals. - _Vladimir Shevelev_, Apr 13 2012

%H R. H. Hardin, <a href="/A193641/b193641.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..200</a>

%H Tomislav Doslic and I. Zubac, <a href="https://doi.org/10.26493/1855-3974.851.167">Counting maximal matchings in linear polymers</a>, Ars Mathematica Contemporanea 11 (2016) 255-276.

%F Empirical: a(n) = 2*a(n-1) + a(n-3).

%F Empirical: G.f.: -x*(1+x+x^2) / ( -1+2*x+x^3 ); a(n) = A008998(n-3) + A008998(n-2) + A008998(n-1). - _R. J. Mathar_, Feb 19 2015

%F Empirical: a(n) = 1 + 2*A077852(n-2) for n >= 2. - _Greg Dresden_, Apr 04 2021

%F Empirical: partial sums of A052910. - _Sean A. Irvine_, Jul 14 2022

%e Some solutions for n=6:

%e 1 1 1 0 0 1 -1 1 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 -1 -1

%e -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 1 -1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1

%e -1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 1 -1 1

%e 1 1 1 0 1 0 -1 -1 1 1 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1

%e 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

%e 0 1 1 1 1 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 -1

%o (Haskell)

%o a193641 n = a193641_list !! n

%o a193641_list = drop 2 xs where

%o xs = 1 : 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) xs (map (* 2) $ drop 2 xs)

%o -- _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Jan 01 2014

%K nonn

%O 1,2

%A _R. H. Hardin_, Aug 02 2011

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