A209353 Number of initially rising meander words, where each letter of the cyclic 7-ary alphabet occurs n times.

1, 1, 19, 902, 53636, 3771698, 292587922, 24422343208, 2150227555324, 197404215493922, 18735386882618558, 1827242795963079380, 182291530666463403220, 18537924237935355619360

Offset

0,3

Comments

In a meander word letters of neighboring positions have to be neighbors in the alphabet, where in a cyclic alphabet the first and the last letters are considered neighbors too. The words are not considered cyclic here.

A word is initially rising if it is empty or if it begins with the first letter of the alphabet that can only be followed by the second letter in this word position.

a(n) is also the number of (7*n-1)-step walks on 7-dimensional cubic lattice from (1,0,...,0) to (n,n,...,n) with positive unit steps in all dimensions such that the indices of dimensions used in consecutive steps differ by 1 or are in the set {1,7}.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..13.

Example

a(0) =  1: the empty word.
a(1) =  1 = |{abcdefg}|.
a(2) = 19 = |{abagfedcbcdefg, abagfgfedcbcde, abagfgfededcbc, abcbagfedcdefg, abcbagfgfedcde, abcbagfgfededc, abcbcdedefgagf, abcbcdedefgfga, abcbcdefgagfed, abcdcbagfedefg, abcdcbagfgfede, abcdedcbagfefg, abcdedcbagfgfe, abcdedefgfgabc, abcdefedcbagfg, abcdefgabcdefg, abcdefgagfedcb, abcdefgfedcbag, abcdefgfgabcde}|.

Crossrefs

Column k=7 of A209349.

Sequence in context: A334565 A183473 A217826 * A368789 A005535 A171226

Adjacent sequences: A209350 A209351 A209352 * A209354 A209355 A209356

Keyword

nonn,walk

Author

Alois P. Heinz, Mar 06 2012

Status

approved