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A191827 Number of n-step three-sided prudent self-avoiding walks ending at the southwest corner of their box. 6
1, 2, 4, 9, 20, 46, 105, 244, 568, 1332, 3130, 7385, 17459, 41382, 98245, 233663, 556471, 1327008, 3167876, 7570263, 18106445, 43342551, 103826992, 248886102, 596973191, 1432699552, 3440164442, 8264411848, 19862617439, 47757332813 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,2
LINKS
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Families of prudent self-avoiding walks, DMTCS proc. AJ, 2008, 167-180.
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Families of prudent self-avoiding walks, arXiv:0804.4843 [math.CO], 2008-2009.
Enrica Duchi, On some classes of prudent walks, in: FPSAC'05, Taormina, Italy, 2005.
EXAMPLE
a(4) = 20: NWWS, NWSW, NWSS, WNWS, WWWW, WWWS, WWSW, WWSS, WSWW, WSWS, WSSW, WSSS, SWWW, SWWS, SWSW, SWSS, SSWW, SSWS, SSSW, SSSS.
MAPLE
b:= proc(d, i, n, x, y, w, s) option remember;
`if`(s+w>n, 0, `if`(n=0, `if`(s=0 and w=0, 1, 0),
`if`(d in [0, 1] or d in [2, 4] and x=0 or d=2 and i,
b(1, evalb(x=0), n-1, max(x-1, 0), y, w+1, s), 0) +
`if`(d in [0, 2] or d in [1, 3] and (y=0 or i),
b(2, evalb(y=0), n-1, x, max(y-1, 0), w, s+1), 0) +
`if`(d in [0, 3] or d in [2, 4] and w=0 or d=2 and i,
b(3, evalb(w=0), n-1, x+1, y, max(w-1, 0), s), 0) +
`if`(d in [0, 4] or d in [1, 3] and (s=0 or i),
b(4, evalb(s=0), n-1, x, y+1, w, max(s-1, 0)), 0)))
end:
a:= n-> b(0, true, n, 0, 0, 0, 0):
seq(a(n), n=0..30);
MATHEMATICA
b[d_, i_, n_, x_, y_, w_, s_] := b[d, i, n, x, y, w, s] = If[s+w > n, 0, If[n == 0, If[s == 0 && w == 0, 1, 0], If[MatchQ[d, 0|1] || d != 3 && x == 0 || d == 2 && i, b[1, x == 0, n-1, Max[x-1, 0], y, w+1, s], 0] + If[MatchQ[d, 0|2] || d != 4 && (y == 0 || i), b[2, y == 0, n-1, x, Max[y-1, 0], w, s+1], 0]+If[MatchQ[d, 0|3] || d != 1 && w == 0 || d == 2 && i, b[3, w == 0, n-1, x+1, y, Max[w-1, 0], s], 0] + If[MatchQ[d, 0|4] || d != 2 && i, b[4, s == 0, n-1, x, y+1, w, Max[s-1, 0]], 0]]]; a[n_] := b[0, True, n, 0, 0, 0, 0]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 30}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 22 2014, after Alois P. Heinz *)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A007902 A057417 A191653 * A000968 A005908 A206119
KEYWORD
nonn,walk
AUTHOR
Alois P. Heinz, Jun 17 2011
STATUS
approved

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