Search: id:A008549 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A008549 %S A008549 0,1,6,29,130,562,2380,9949,41226,169766,695860,2842226, %T A008549 11576916,47050564,190876696,773201629,3128164186,12642301534, %U A008549 51046844836,205954642534,830382690556,3345997029244,13475470680616 %N A008549 Number of ways of choosing at most n-1 items from a set of size 2n+1. %C A008549 Area under Dyck excursions (paths ending in 0): a(n) is the sum of the areas under all Dyck excursions of length 2*n (nonnegative walks beginning and ending in 0 with jumps -1,+1). %C A008549 Number of inversions in all 321-avoiding permutations of [n+1]. Example: a(2)=6 because the 321-avoiding permutations of [3], namely 123,132, 312,213,231, have 0, 1, 2, 1, 2 inversions, respectively. - Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Jul 28 2003 %C A008549 Convolution of A001791 and A000984. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Feb 16 2005 %C A008549 a(n) = total semilength of "longest Dyck subpath" starting at an upstep U taken over all upsteps in all Dyck paths of semilength n. - David Callan (callan(AT)stat.wisc.edu), Jul 25 2008 %C A008549 [1,6,29,130,562,2380,...] is convolution of A001700 with itself . [From Philippe DELEHAM (kolotoko(AT)wanadoo.fr), May 19 2009] %D A008549 R. Chapman, Moments of Dyck paths, Discrete Math., 204 (1999), 113-117. %D A008549 E. Pergola, Two bijections for the area of Dyck paths, Discrete Math., 241 (2001), 435-447. %D A008549 W.-J. Woan, Area of Catalan Paths, Discrete Math., 226 (2001), 439-444. %H A008549 T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..200 %H A008549 C. Banderier, Analytic combinatorics of random walks and planar maps, PhD Thesis, 2001. %F A008549 a(n) = 4^n - C(2*n+1, n). %F A008549 Also a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} Catalan(k)*4^(n-k). %F A008549 Convolution of Catalan numbers and powers of 4: a(n+1)=sum(C(k+1)*4^(n-k), k=0..n); G.f.: x*(c(x)^2)/(1-4*x), c(x) = g.f. of Catalan numbers [ Wolfdieter Lang (wolfdieter.lang(AT)physik.uni-karlsruhe.de) ] %F A008549 Note Sum[Binomial[2n+1, k], {k, 0, 2n + 1}] = 2^(2n+1). Therefore by the symmetry of Pascal's triangle, Sum[Binomial[2n+1, k], {k, 0, n}] = 2^(2n) = 4^n. This explains why the following two expressions for a(n) are equal: Sum[Binomial[2n+1, k], {k, 0, n-1}] = 4^n - Binomial [2n+1, n] - Dan Velleman %F A008549 G.f.: (2*x^2-1+sqrt(1-4*x^2))/(2*(1+2*x)*(2*x-1)*x^3) %F A008549 a(n)=sum{k=0..n, C(2k, k)C(2(n-k), n-k-1)}. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Feb 16 2005 %F A008549 Second binomial transform of 2^n-C(n, floor(n/2))=A045621(n). - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Jan 13 2006 %e A008549 a(2) = 6 because there are 6 ways to choose at most 1 item from a set of size 5: You can choose the empty set, or you can choose any of the five one-element sets. %p A008549 f := n->4^n-binomial(2*n+1,n); %o A008549 (PARI) {a(n)=if(n<0, 0, 4^n -binomial(2*n+1, n))} /* Michael Somos Oct 31 2006 */ %Y A008549 Cf. A057571. %Y A008549 Sequence in context: A081278 A054146 A081674 this_sequence A026675 A026873 A081179 %Y A008549 Adjacent sequences: A008546 A008547 A008548 this_sequence A008550 A008551 A008552 %K A008549 nonn,easy,nice %O A008549 0,3 %A A008549 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). %E A008549 Better description from Dan Velleman (djvelleman(AT)amherst.edu), Dec 01 2000 Search completed in 0.002 seconds