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Iwan Jensen, A transfer matrix approach to the enumeration of plane meanders. J. Phys. A 33, 5953-5963 (2000).
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For additional references see A005316.
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LINKS
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Iwan Jensen and Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..28 (first 24 terms from I. Jensen)
R. Bacher, Meander algebras
David Bevan, Random Closed Meanders - David Bevan, Jun 25 2010
P. Di Francesco, O. Golinelli and E. Guitter, Meander, folding and arch statistics, arXiv:hep-th/9506030, 1995.
Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics, 2009; see page 525
Erich Friedman, Illustration of initial terms
Iwan Jensen, Home page
Iwan Jensen, Closed meanders, a(n) for n = 1..24
Iwan Jensen, Enumeration of plane meanders, arXiv:cond-mat/9910313 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 1999.
Michael La Croix, Approaches to the Enumerative Theory of Meanders, 2003.
S. K. Lando and A. K. Zvonkin , Plane and projective meanders, Séries Formelles et Combinatoire Algébrique. Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche Informatique, Université Bordeaux I, 1991, pp. 287-303. (Annotated scanned copy)
A. Panayotopoulos and P. Tsikouras, Meanders and Motzkin Words, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 7, 2004.
A. Phillips, Mazes
A. Phillips, Simple, Alternating, Transit Mazes
J. A. Reeds, D. E. Knuth, & N. J. A. Sloane, Email Correspondence
J. Reeds, L. Shepp, & D. McIlroy, Numerical bounds for the Arnol'd "meander" constant, Preprint.
N. J. A. Sloane, My favorite integer sequences, in Sequences and their Applications (Proceedings of SETA '98).
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