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A089738 Triangle of T(n,k)=number of peakless Motzkin paths of length n containing k valleys (can be easily expressed using RNA secondary structure terminology). +0
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1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 1, 33, 4, 69, 13, 146, 38, 1, 312, 106, 5, 673, 284, 21, 1463, 742, 77, 1, 3202, 1904, 261, 6, 7050, 4823, 831, 31, 15605, 12096, 2534, 136, 1, 34705, 30106, 7474, 540, 7, 77511, 74484, 21480, 1984, 43 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,4

COMMENT

Rows 0,1,2 contain one entry each and row n (n>=3) contains floor(n/3) entries.

REFERENCES

P. R. Stein and M. S. Waterman, On some new sequences generalizing the Catalan and Motzkin numbers, Discrete Math., 26, 1979, 261-272.

M. Vauchassade de Chaumont and G. Viennot, Polynomes orthogonaux et problemes d'enumeration en biologie moleculaire, Publ. I.R.M.A. Strasbourg, 1984, 229/S-08, Actes 8e Sem. Lotharingien, pp. 79-86.

LINKS

M. S. Waterman, Home Page (contains copies of his papers)

M. Vauchassade de Chaumont and G. Viennot, Polynomes orthogonaux at problemes d'enumeration en biologie moleculaire, Sem. Loth. Comb. B08l (1984) 79-86.

FORMULA

G.f. G(t, z) satisfies G=1+zG+z^2*(G-1)[G-(1-t)(G-1-zG)].

EXAMPLE

T(7,1)=4 because we have HUH(DU)HD, UH(DU)HDH, UH(DU)HHD and UHH(DU)HD, where U=(1,1), D=(1,-1) and H=(1,0); the valleys are shown between parentheses.

CROSSREFS

Row sums give A004148.

Sequence in context: A002546 A010745 A097777 this_sequence A110333 A069783 A102251

Adjacent sequences: A089735 A089736 A089737 this_sequence A089739 A089740 A089741

KEYWORD

nonn,tabf

AUTHOR

Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Jan 07 2004

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