Search: id:A051286 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A051286 %S A051286 1,1,2,5,11,26,63,153,376,931,2317,5794,14545,36631,92512,234205, %T A051286 594169,1510192,3844787,9802895,25027296,63972861,163701327,419316330, %U A051286 1075049011,2758543201,7083830648,18204064403,46812088751,120452857976 %N A051286 Whitney number of level n of the lattice of the ideals of the fence of order 2 n. %C A051286 A Chebyshev transform of the central trinomial numbers A002426: image of 1/sqrt(1-2x-3x^2) under the mapping that takes g(x) to (1/(1+x^2))g(x/ (1+x^2)). - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Jan 31 2005 %C A051286 a(n) has same parity as Fibonacci(n+1) = A000045(n+1); see A107597. - Paul D. Hanna (pauldhanna(AT)juno.com), May 22 2005 %C A051286 This is the second kind of Whitney numbers, which count elements, not to be confused with the first kind, which sum Mobius functions. - Thomas Zaslavsky (zaslav(AT)math.binghamton.edu), May 07 2008 %D A051286 E. Munarini and N. Zagaglia Salvi, On the Rank Polynomial of the Lattice of Order Ideals of Fences and Crowns, Discrete Mathematics 259 (2002), 163-177. %F A051286 G.f.: 1/sqrt(1-2*t-t^2-2*t^3+t^4). %F A051286 a(n)=sum{k=0..floor(n/2), binomial(n-k, k)(-1)^k*A002426(n-2k)}. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Jan 31 2005 %F A051286 a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} C(n-k, k)^2. Limit_{n->inf} a(n+1)/a(n) = (sqrt(5)+3)/ 2. G.f.: A(x) = 1/sqrt((1+x+x^2)*(1-3*x+x^2)). - Paul D. Hanna (pauldhanna(AT)juno.com), May 22 2005 %F A051286 a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} A049310(n, k)^2 . - Philippe DELEHAM (kolotoko(AT)wanadoo.fr), Nov 21 2005 %e A051286 a(3) = 5 because the ideals of size 3 of the fence F(6) = { x1 < x2 > x3 < x4 > x5 < x6 } are x1x3x5, x1x2x3, x3x4x5, x1x5x6, x3x5x6. %p A051286 seq( sum('binomial(i-k,k)*binomial(i-k,k)', 'k'=0..floor(i/2)), i=0..30 ); # Detlef Pauly (dettodet(AT)yahoo.de), Nov 09 2001 %o A051286 (PARI) a(n)=polcoeff(1/sqrt((1+x+x^2)*(1-3*x+x^2)+x*O(x^n)),n) (PARI) a(n)=sum(k=0,n,binomial(n-k,k)^2) (Hanna) %Y A051286 Cf. A051291, A051292. %Y A051286 Cf. A107597. %Y A051286 Sequence in context: A124217 A095981 A082397 this_sequence A025245 A079223 A095892 %Y A051286 Adjacent sequences: A051283 A051284 A051285 this_sequence A051287 A051288 A051289 %K A051286 nonn %O A051286 0,3 %A A051286 Emanuele Munarini (munarini(AT)mate.polimi.it) Search completed in 0.001 seconds