Search: id:A005315 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A005315 M1862 %S A005315 1,1,2,8,42,262,1828,13820,110954,933458,8152860,73424650,678390116, %T A005315 6405031050,61606881612,602188541928,5969806669034,59923200729046, %U A005315 608188709574124,6234277838531806,64477712119584604,672265814872772972, 7060941974458061392 %N A005315 Closed meandric numbers (or meanders): ways a loop can cross a road 2n times. %C A005315 There is a 1-1-correspondence between loops crossing a road 2n times and lines crossing a road 2n-1 times. %D A005315 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %D A005315 For additional references see A005316. %D A005315 V. I. Arnol'd, A branched covering of CP^2->S^4, hyperbolicity and projective topology [ Russian ], Sibir. Mat. Zhurn., 29 (No. 2, 1988), 36-47 = Siberian Math. J., 29 (1988), 717-725. %D A005315 B. Bobier and J. Sawada, A fast algorithm to generate open meandric systems and meanders, preprint, 2007. %D A005315 Franz, Reinhard O. W. and Earnshaw, Berton A. A constructive enumeration of meanders. Ann. Comb. 6 (2002), no. 1, 7-17. %D A005315 I. Jensen, A transfer matrix approach to the enumeration of plane meanders. J. Phys. A 33, 5953-5963 (2000). %D A005315 I. Jensen and A. J. Guttmann, Critical exponents of plane meanders. J. Phys. A 33, L187-L192 (2000). %D A005315 S. K. Lando and A. K. Zvonkin, Plane and projective meanders, S\'{e}ries Formelles et Combinatoire Alg\'{e}brique. Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche Informatique, Universit\'{e} Bordeaux I, 1991, pp. 287-303. %D A005315 S. K. Lando and A. K. Zvonkin, Meanders, Selecta Mathematica Sovietica, Vol. 11, Number 2, pp. 117-144, 1992. %D A005315 S. K. Lando and A. K. Zvonkin, Plane and projective meanders, Theoretical Computer Science Vol. 117, p227-241, 1993. %D A005315 A. Phillips, Simple Alternating Transit Mazes, preprint. Abridged version appeared as ``La topologia dei labirinti,'' in M. Emmer, editor, L'Occhio di Horus: Itinerari nell'Imaginario Matematico. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italia, Rome, 1989, pp. 57-67. %D A005315 V. R. Pratt, personal communication. %D A005315 J. A. Reeds and L. A. Shepp, An upper bound on the meander constant, preprint, May 25, 1999. [Obtains upper bound of 13.01] %D A005315 M. A. Sainte-Lagu\"{e}, Les R\'{e}seaux (ou Graphes)}, M\'{e}morial des Sciences Math\'{e}matiques, Fasc. 18, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1926, p. 47. %H A005315 I. Jensen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..24 [from link below] %H A005315 R. Bacher, Meander algebras %H A005315 P. Di Francesco, O. Golinelli and E. Guitter, Meander, folding and arch statistics. %H A005315 Erich Friedman, Illustration of initial terms %H A005315 I. Jensen, Home page %H A005315 I. Jensen, More terms %H A005315 I. Jensen, Enumeration of plane meanders %H A005315 A. Panayotopoulos and P. Tsikouras, Meanders and Motzkin Words, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 7, 2004. %H A005315 A. Phillips, Mazes %H A005315 A. Phillips, Simple, Alternating, Transit Mazes %H A005315 N. J. A. Sloane, My favorite integer sequences, in Sequences and their Applications (Proceedings of SETA '98). %H A005315 P. Flajolet and R. Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics, 2009; see page 525 %Y A005315 These are the odd-numbered terms of A005316. Cf. A077054. For nonisomorphic solutions see A077460. %Y A005315 A column of triangle A008828. %Y A005315 Sequence in context: A013999 A130649 A054993 this_sequence A121635 A002874 A078592 %Y A005315 Adjacent sequences: A005312 A005313 A005314 this_sequence A005316 A005317 A005318 %K A005315 nonn,nice %O A005315 0,3 %A A005315 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), J. A. Reeds (reeds(AT)idaccr.org) %E A005315 Computed to n = 24 by Iwan Jensen. Search completed in 0.002 seconds