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A007747 Number of nonnegative integer points (p_1,p_2,...,p_n) in polytope defined by p_0 = p_{n+1} = 0, 2p_i - (p_{i+1} + p_{i-1}) <= 2, p_i >= 0, i=1,...,n. Number of score sequences in a chess tournament with n+1 players (with 3 outcomes for each game). +0
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1, 2, 5, 16, 59, 247, 1111, 5302, 26376, 135670, 716542, 3868142, 21265884, 118741369, 671906876, 3846342253, 22243294360, 129793088770, 763444949789, 4522896682789, 26968749517543, 161750625450884 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENT

A correspondence between the points in the polytope and the chess scores was found by Svante Linusson (linusson(AT)matematik.su.se):

The score sequences are partitions (a_1,...,a_n) of 2C(n,2) of length <= n that are majorised by 2n,2n-2,2n-4,...,2,0; i.e. f(n,k) := 2n+2n-2+...+(2n-2k+2)-(a_1+a_2+...+a_k) >= 0 for all k. The sequence 0=f(n,0),f(n,1),f(n,2),...,f(n,n)=0 is in the polytope. This establishes the bijection.

REFERENCES

P. Di Francesco, M. Gaudin, C. Itzykson and F. Lesage, Laughlin's wave functions, Coulomb gases and expansions of the discriminant, Int. Jour. of Mod. Phys. A, Vol. 9, No. 24 (1994) 4257-4351.

P. A. MacMahon, Chess tournaments and the like treated by the calculus of symmetric functions, Coll. Papers I, MIT Press, 344-375.

LINKS

Jon Schoenfield, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..39

Jon Schoenfield, Comments on this sequence

Index entries for sequences related to tournaments

FORMULA

Schoenfield (see Comments link) gives a recursive method for computing this sequence.

EXAMPLE

With 3 players the possible scores sequences are {{0,2,4}, {0,3,3}, {1,1,4}, {1,2,3}, {2,2,2}}.

With 4 players they are {{0,2,4,6}, {0,2,5,5}, {0,3,3,6}, {0,3,4,5}, {0,4,4,4}, {1,1,4,6}, {1,1,5,5}, {1,2,3,6}, {1,2,4,5}, {1,3,3,5}, {1,3,4,4}, {2,2,2,6}, {2,2,3,5}, {2,2,4,4}, {2,3,3,4}, {3,3,3,3}}.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000571, A047730, A064626, A064422.

Sequence in context: A019589 A087949 A028333 this_sequence A107283 A059237 A104547

Adjacent sequences: A007744 A007745 A007746 this_sequence A007748 A007749 A007750

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

P. Di Francesco (philippe(AT)amoco.saclay.cea.fr), N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net)

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