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A003274 Number of key permutations of length n: permutations {a_i} with |a_i-a_{i-1}|=1 or 2.
(Formerly M1583)
+0
4
1, 2, 6, 12, 20, 34, 56, 88, 136, 208, 314, 470, 700, 1038, 1534, 2262, 3330, 4896, 7192, 10558, 15492, 22724, 33324, 48860, 71630, 105002, 153912, 225594, 330650, 484618, 710270, 1040980, 1525660, 2235994, 3277040, 4802768, 7038832 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

a(n) = 2*A069241(n), n>1.

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

S. Avgustinovich and S. Kitaev, On uniquely k-determined permutations, Discr. Math., 308 (2008), 1500-1507.

E. S. Page, Systematic generation of ordered sequences using recurrence relations, Computer J., 14 (1971), 150-153.

LINKS

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

FORMULA

G.f.: x*(-1 + x - 3*x^2 + 2*x^3 - x^5)/((- 1+ x)^2*(-1 + x + x^3)).

MAPLE

A003274:=-(1-z+3*z**2-2*z**3+z**5)/(z**3+z-1)/(z-1)**2; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A103505 A002378 A005991 this_sequence A121315 A078878 A095361

Adjacent sequences: A003271 A003272 A003273 this_sequence A003275 A003276 A003277

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

Better description and g.f. from Erich Friedman (erich.friedman(AT)stetson.edu).

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