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A097777 Triangle read by rows: T(n,k) = number of peakless Motzkin paths of length n containing k U H^j Us for some j>0, where U=(1,1) and H=(1,0) (can be easily expressed using RNA secondary structure terminology). +0
2
1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 1, 32, 5, 65, 17, 134, 50, 1, 280, 136, 7, 592, 355, 31, 1264, 904, 114, 1, 2722, 2264, 378, 9, 5906, 5604, 1176, 49, 12900, 13752, 3504, 215, 1, 28344, 33530, 10112, 835, 11, 62608, 81358, 28468, 2997, 71, 138949, 196688, 78576, 10173, 361, 1 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,4

COMMENT

Row sums are the RNA secondary structure numbers (A004148).

REFERENCES

I. L. Hofacker, P. Schuster and P. F. Stadler, Combinatorics of RNA secondary structures, Discrete Appl. Math., 88, 1998, 207-237.

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

EXAMPLE

Triangle starts:

1;

1;

1;

2;

4;

8;

16,1;

32,5;

65,17;

134,50,1;

280,136,7;

Row n has floor(n/3) terms, n>=3.

T(7,1)=5 because we have H(UHU)HDD, (UHU)HHDD, (UHU)HDHD, (UHU)HDDH and (UHHU)HDD, where U=(1,1), H=(1,0) and D=(1,-1); the U H^j U's are shown between parentheses.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A004148.

Sequence in context: A098864 A002546 A010745 this_sequence A089738 A110333 A069783

Adjacent sequences: A097774 A097775 A097776 this_sequence A097778 A097779 A097780

KEYWORD

nonn,tabf

AUTHOR

Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Sep 11 2004

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