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A098086 Triangle read by rows: T(n,k) is the number of peakless Motzkin paths in which the k-th step is the leftmost (1,0)-step (can be easily expressed using RNA secondary structure terminology). +0
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1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 1, 8, 6, 3, 17, 13, 6, 1, 37, 28, 13, 4, 82, 62, 30, 10, 1, 185, 140, 69, 24, 5, 423, 320, 160, 59, 15, 1, 978, 740, 375, 144, 40, 6, 2283, 1728, 885, 350, 105, 21, 1, 5373, 4068, 2102, 852, 271, 62, 7, 12735, 9645, 5022, 2077, 690, 174, 28, 1, 30372 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,5

COMMENT

Row sums yield 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

T(n, k)=k*sum((1/j)binomial(j, n-2k+1-j)*binomial(j+k-1, n-k+1-j), j=ceil((n-2k+2)/2)..n-2k+1) if 2k<n+1 and T(n, k)=1 if 2k=n+1. G.f.=tzg/(1-tz^2*g), where g = [1-z+z^2-sqrt(1-2z-z^2-2z^3+z^4)]/(2z^2) is the g.f. for the RNA secondary structure numbers (A004148).

EXAMPLE

Triangle starts:

1;

1;

1,1;

2,2;

4,3,1;

8,6,3;

17,13,6,1;

Row n has ceil(n/2) terms.

T(5,2)=3 because we have UHDHH, UHHDH, and UHHHD, where U=(1,1), H=(1,0) and

D=(1,-1); these are the only peakless Motzkin paths of length 5 in which the second step is the first occurrence of H.

MAPLE

T:=proc(n, k) if 2*k-1=n then 1 else k*sum(binomial(j, n-2*k+1-j)*binomial(j+k-1, n-k+1-j)/j, j=ceil((n-2*k+2)/2)..n-2*k+1) fi end: seq(seq(T(n, k), k=1..ceil(n/2)), n=0..16); # yields the sequence in linear form T:=proc(n, k) if 2*k-1=n then 1 else k*sum(binomial(j, n-2*k+1-j)*binomial(j+k-1, n-k+1-j)/j, j=ceil((n-2*k+2)/2)..n-2*k+1) fi end: matrix(10, 10, T); # yields the sequence in triangular form

CROSSREFS

Cf. A004148.

Adjacent sequences: A098083 A098084 A098085 this_sequence A098087 A098088 A098089

Sequence in context: A084896 A011388 A105114 this_sequence A045828 A058526 A112153

KEYWORD

nonn,tabf

AUTHOR

Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Sep 13 2004

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