Living Catalogue of Reversive Symbols

Reversive Symbols for Rational Sequences

Len Smiley, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage

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Catalan Numbers
F-F2
(1/(n+1))*binomial(2*n,n)

Schroeder dissection, all tiles are triangles

A000045

4-gon Numbers
F-F3
(1/(2*n+1))*binomial(3*n,n)

Schroeder dissection, all tiles are quadrangles

A001764

3- or 4-gon Numbers
F-F2-F3
sum(binomial(n+k,k)*binomial(k,n-k),k=ceil(n/2)..n)/(n+1);

Schroeder dissection, all tiles are triangles or quadrangles

A001002

(q+1)-gon Numbers
F-Fq
(1/((q-1)*n+1))*binomial(q*n,n)

Schroeder dissection, all tiles are (q+1)-gons

A002293



Schroeder Numbers
  F-2F2
 --------
  1-F
(1/(n+1))*sum(binomial(2*n-k,n)*binomial(n-1,k),k=0..n-1)

Schroeder dissection

A001003

Double Schroeder Numbers
  F-F2
 --------
  1+F
(2/(n+1))*sum(binomial(2*n-k,n)*binomial(n-1,k),k=0..n-1)

Schroeder dissection, no diagonals to vertices 1 or 2

A006318

Triangle-free
  F-F2-F3
 --------
  1-F
(1/(n+1))*sum(binomial(n+k,k)*binomial(n-k-1,k-1),k=0..ceil((n-1)/2))

Schroeder dissection, no tiles are triangles

A046736

Quad-free
  F-2F2+F3-F4
 ------------
  1-F

Schroeder dissection, no tiles are quadrangles

q-gon-free
  F-2F2+Fq-1-Fq
 ------------
  1-F

Schroeder dissection, no tiles are q-gons

Schroeder dissection, all tiles have more than q sides

  F-F2-Fq
 ------------
  1-F
Only odd-sided tiles
  F-F2-F3
 ---------
  1-F2
(1/(n+1))*sum(binomial(2*n-2*k,n)*binomial(n-k-1,k),k=0..ceil((n+1)/2))

Schroeder dissection, all tiles have odd number of sides

A049124

Only even-sided tiles
  F-2F3
 ---------
  1-F2
(1/(2*m+1))*sum(binomial(2*m+k,k)*binomial(m-1,k-1),k=0..m)

Schroeder dissection, all tiles have even number of sides

A003168


Motzkin Numbers
  F-F2
 --------
  1-F3
(1/(n+1))*sum(binomial(n+1,k)*binomial(k,2*k-n-2),k=0..n+1)

Ways to place non-touching chords with n labelled points as endpoints

A001006

"Motzkin sums"
  F-F2
 --------
  1-F+F2
(1/(n+1))*sum(binomial(n+1,k)*binomial(n-k-1,k-1),k=0..ceil((n)/2))
A005043


Leonard Smiley
Created: Wed Jul 7 14:41:05 AKDT 1999 Last modified: Fri Jul 9 10:24:14 AKDT 1999