login
This site is supported by donations to The OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo


Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A002874 The number of partitions of {1..3n} that are invariant under a permutation consisting of n 3-cycles.
(Formerly M1863 N0738)
13
1, 2, 8, 42, 268, 1994, 16852, 158778, 1644732, 18532810, 225256740, 2933174842, 40687193548, 598352302474, 9290859275060, 151779798262202, 2600663778494172, 46609915810749130, 871645673599372868 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Original name: Sorting numbers.

Equals column 3 of A162663. - Michel Marcus, Mar 27 2013

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

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

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..100

Victor Meally, Comparison of several sequences given in Motzkin's paper "Sorting numbers for cylinders...", letter to N. J. A. Sloane, N. D.

T. S. Motzkin, Sorting numbers for cylinders and other classification numbers, in Combinatorics, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 19, AMS, 1971, pp. 167-176. [Annotated, scanned copy]

OEIS Wiki, Sorting numbers

Index entries for sequences related to sorting

FORMULA

E.g.f.: exp( (exp(3*x) - 4)/3 + exp(x) ).

MAPLE

S:= series(exp( (exp(3*x) - 4)/3 + exp(x)), x, 31):

seq(coeff(S, x, j)*j!, j=0..30); # Robert Israel, Oct 30 2015

MATHEMATICA

u[0, j_]:=1; u[k_, j_]:=u[k, j]=Sum[Binomial[k-1, i-1]Plus@@(u[k-i, j]#^(i-1)&/@Divisors[j]), {i, k}]; Table[u[n, 3], {n, 0, 12}] (* Wouter Meeussen, Dec 06 2008 *)

mx = 16; p = 3; Range[0, mx]! CoefficientList[ Series[ Exp[ (Exp[p*x] - p - 1)/p + Exp[x]], {x, 0, mx}], x] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Dec 12 2012 *)

CROSSREFS

u[n,j] generates for j=1, A000110; j=2, A002872; j=3, this sequence; j=4, A141003; j=5, A036075; j=6, A141004; j=7, A036077. - Wouter Meeussen, Dec 06 2008

Sequence in context: A005315 A182520 A121635 * A078592 A225108 A052646

Adjacent sequences:  A002871 A002872 A002873 * A002875 A002876 A002877

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe

EXTENSIONS

New name from Danny Rorabaugh, Oct 24 2015

STATUS

approved

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recent | More pages
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy .

Last modified August 27 16:37 EDT 2017. Contains 291208 sequences.