Search: id:A100861 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A100861 %S A100861 1,1,1,1,1,3,1,6,3,1,10,15,1,15,45,15,1,21,105,105,1,28,210,420,105,1, %T A100861 36,378,1260,945,1,45,630,3150,4725,945,1,55,990,6930,17325,10395,1,66, %U A100861 1485,13860,51975,62370,10395,1,78,2145,25740,135135,270270,135135,1,91, 3003,45045,315315,945945,945945,135135 %N A100861 Triangle of Bessel numbers read by rows: T(n,k) is the number of k-matchings of the complete graph K(n). %C A100861 Row n contains 1+floor(n/2) terms. Row sums yield A000085. T(2n,n)=T(2n-1, n-1)=(2n-1)!! (A001147). %C A100861 Inverse binomial transform is triangle with T(2n,n)=(2n-1)!!, 0 otherwise. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), May 21 2005 %C A100861 Equivalently, number of involutions of n with k pairs. - Frank Adams-Watters (FrankTAW(AT)Netscape.net), Jun 09 2006 %D A100861 J. Y. Choi and J. D. H. Smith, On the unimodilty and combinatorics of Bessel numbers, Discrete Math., 264 (2003), 45-53. %D A100861 C. D. Godsil, Algebraic Combinatorics, Chapman & Hall, New York, 1993. %F A100861 T(n, k)=n!/[k!(n-2k)!*2^k]. E.g.f.=exp(z+tz^2/2). G.f.=g(t, z) satisfies the differential equation g=1+zg+tz^2*diff(zg, z). Row generating polynomial=P[n]=[ -i*sqrt(t/2)]^n*H(n, i/sqrt(2t)), where H(n, x) is a Hermite polynomial and i=sqrt(-1). Row generating polynomials P[n] satisfy P[0]=1, P[n]=P[n-1]+(n-1)tP[n-2]. %F A100861 T(n, k)=binomial(n, 2k)(2k-1)!! - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), May 21 2002. [Corrected by Roland Hildebrand, Mar 06 2009] %F A100861 T(n,k) = (n-2k+1)T(n-1,k-1) + T(n-1,k). - Frank Adams-Watters (FrankTAW(AT)Netscape.net), Jun 09 2006 %e A100861 T(4,2)=3 because in the graph with vertex set {A,B,C,D} and edge set {AB,BC,CD,AD,AC,BD} we have the following three 2-matchings: {AB, CD},{AC,BD} and {AD,BC}. %e A100861 Triangle starts: %e A100861 1; %e A100861 1; %e A100861 1,1; %e A100861 1,3; %e A100861 1,6,3; %e A100861 1,10,15; %e A100861 1,15,45,15; %e A100861 ... %p A100861 P[0]:=1: for n from 1 to 14 do P[n]:=sort(expand(P[n-1]+(n-1)*t*P[n-2])) od: for n from 0 to 14 do seq(coeff(t*P[n],t^k),k=1..1+floor(n/2)) od; # yields the sequence in triangular form %o A100861 (PARI) T(n,k)=if(k<0|2*k>n, 0, n!/k!/(n-2*k)!/2^k) /* Michael Somos Jun 04 2005 */ %Y A100861 Other versions of this same triangle are given in A144299, A001497, A001498, A111924. %Y A100861 Cf. A000085 (row sums). %Y A100861 Sequence in context: A131110 A133093 A065567 this_sequence A131031 A130452 A133085 %Y A100861 Adjacent sequences: A100858 A100859 A100860 this_sequence A100862 A100863 A100864 %K A100861 nonn,tabf,nice %O A100861 0,6 %A A100861 Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Jan 08 2005 Search completed in 0.001 seconds