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A006864 Number of Hamilton cycles in P_4 X P_n.
(Formerly M1603)
+0
2
0, 1, 2, 6, 14, 37, 92, 236, 596, 1517, 3846, 9770, 24794, 62953, 159800, 405688, 1029864, 2614457, 6637066, 16849006, 42773094, 108584525, 275654292, 699780452, 1776473532, 4509783909, 11448608270, 29063617746 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,3

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

F. Faase, On the number of specific spanning subgraphs of the graphs G X P_n, Ars Combin. 49 (1998), 129-154.

Kwong, Y. H. H.; Enumeration of Hamiltonian cycles in $P\sb 4\times P\sb n$ and $P\sb 5\times P\sb n$. Ars Combin. 33 (1992), 87-96.

Tosic R., Bodroza O., Harris Kwong Y. H. and Joseph Straight H., On the number of Hamiltonian cycles of P4 X Pn, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 21 (5) (1990), 403-409.

LINKS

F. Faase, On the number of specific spanning subgraphs of the graphs G X P_n, Preliminary version of paper that appeared in Ars Combin. 49 (1998), 129-154.

F. Faase, Counting Hamilton cycles in product graphs

F. Faase, Results from the counting program

F. Faase, Counting Hamilton cycles in product graphs

FORMULA

a(n) = 2a(n-1) + 2a(n-2) - 2a(n-3) + a(n-4).

G.f.: x^2/(1-2x-2x^2+2x^3-x^4). [From R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Dec 16 2008]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A006653 A144530 A026598 this_sequence A071636 A100067 A026597

Adjacent sequences: A006861 A006862 A006863 this_sequence A006865 A006866 A006867

KEYWORD

easy,nonn

AUTHOR

kwong(AT)cs.fredonia.edu (Harris Kwong), N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Simon Plouffe and Frans Faase (Frans_LiXia(AT)wxs.nl)

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