Search: id:A006664 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A006664 M1871 %S A006664 1,1,2,8,46,322,2546,21870,199494,1904624,18846714,191955370,2002141126, %T A006664 21303422480,230553207346,2531848587534,28159614749270,316713536035464, %U A006664 3597509926531778,41225699113145888,476180721050626814,5539597373695447322, 64863295574835126394,763984568163192551672,9047263176444565467566 %N A006664 Number of irreducible systems of meanders. %D A006664 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %D A006664 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 A006664 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 A006664 S. K. Lando and A. K. Zvonkin, "Meanders", Selecta Mathematica Sovietica Vol. 11, Number 2, pp. 117-144, 1992. %D A006664 S. K. Lando and A. K. Zvonkin, "Plane and projective meanders", Theoretical Computer Science Vol. 117, pp. 227-241, 1993. %F A006664 A(x^2)=S(x^2)#inv(x*S(x^2)) where # is functional composition, S(x) is g.f. of A001246 (squares of Catalan numbers) and inv(.) is functional inverse. A(x) consists of even-numbered terms of A(x^2), odd terms of which are 0. - Doug McIlroy (doug(AT)cs.dartmouth.edu), Mar 22 2006 %Y A006664 Sequence in context: A144164 A003091 A119501 this_sequence A141117 A145844 A005840 %Y A006664 Adjacent sequences: A006661 A006662 A006663 this_sequence A006665 A006666 A006667 %K A006664 nonn,nice %O A006664 0,3 %A A006664 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Simon Plouffe (simon.plouffe(AT)gmail.com) %E A006664 More terms from Doug McIlroy (doug(AT)cs.dartmouth.edu), Mar 22 2006 Search completed in 0.001 seconds