A003024 - OEIS (original) (raw)

COMMENTS

Also the number of n X n real (0,1)-matrices with all eigenvalues positive. - Conjectured by Eric W. Weisstein, Jul 10 2003 and proved by McKay et al. 2003, 2004

Also the number of n X n real (0,1)-matrices with permanent equal to 1, up to permutation of rows/columns, cf. A089482. - Vladeta Jovovic, Oct 28 2009

Also the number of nilpotent elements in the semigroup of binary relations on [n]. - Geoffrey Critzer, May 26 2022

Also the number of sets of n nonempty subsets of {1..n} such that there is a unique way to choose a different element from each. For example, non-isomorphic representatives of the a(3) = 25 set-systems are:

{{1},{2},{3}}

{{1},{2},{1,3}}

{{1},{2},{1,2,3}}

{{1},{1,2},{1,3}}

{{1},{1,2},{2,3}}

{{1},{1,2},{1,2,3}}

The version for at least one way is A368601, any length A367902.

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REFERENCES

S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, p. 310.

F. Harary and E. M. Palmer, Graphical Enumeration, Academic Press, NY, 1973, p. 19, Eq. (1.6.1).

R. W. Robinson, Counting labeled acyclic digraphs, pp. 239-273 of F. Harary, editor, New Directions in the Theory of Graphs. Academic Press, NY, 1973.

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

R. P Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics I, 2nd. ed., p. 322.

LINKS

Eunice Y.-J. Chen, Arthur Choi, and Adnan Darwiche, On Pruning with the MDL Score, JMLR: Wksp., Conf. Proc. (2016) Vol. 52, 98-109.

Zehao Jin, Mario Pasquato, Benjamin L. Davis, Tristan Deleu, Yu Luo, Changhyun Cho, Pablo Lemos, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Yoshua Bengio, Xi Kang, Andrea Valerio Maccio, and Yashar Hezaveh, A Data-driven Discovery of the Causal Connection between Galaxy and Black Hole Evolution, arXiv:2410.00965 [astro-ph.GA], 2024. See p. 33.

Zehao Jin, Mario Pasquato, Benjamin L. Davis, Tristan Deleu, Yu Luo, Changhyun Cho, Pablo Lemos, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Yoshua Bengio, and Xi Kang, Causal Discovery in Astrophysics: Unraveling Supermassive Black Hole and Galaxy Coevolution, Astrophys. J. (2025) Vol. 979, 212. See 4.1.

P. L. Krapivsky, Hiring Strategies, arXiv:2412.10490 [cs.GT], 2024. See p. 12.

Laphou Lao, Zecheng Li, Songlin Hou, Bin Xiao, Songtao Guo, and Yuanyuan Yang, A Survey of IoT Applications in Blockchain Systems: Architecture, Consensus and Traffic Modeling, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR, 2020) Vol. 53, No. 1, Art. 18.

Brendan D. McKay, Frederique E. Oggier, Gordon F. Royle, N. J. A. Sloane, Ian M. Wanless, and Herbert S. Wilf, Acyclic digraphs and eigenvalues of (0,1)-matrices, arXiv:math/0310423 [math.CO], Oct 28 2003.

Ilya Shpitser, Robin J. Evans, Thomas S. Richardson, and James M. Robins, Introduction to nested Markov models, Behaviormetrika (2014) Vol. 41, No. 1, 3-39.

Richard P. Stanley, Acyclic orientation of graphs, Disc. Math., N. Holland Pub. Co. (1973) Vol. 5, 171-178. See also Disc. Math. (2006) Vol. 306, Issues 10-11, 905-909.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, (0,1)-Matrix.

FORMULA

a(0) = 1; for n > 0, a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} (-1)^(k+1)*C(n, k)*2^(k*(n-k))*a(n-k).

1 = Sum_{n>=0} a(n)*exp(-2^n*x)*x^n/n!. - Vladeta Jovovic, Jun 05 2005

a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} (-1)^(n-k)*A046860(n,k) = Sum_{k=1..n} (-1)^(n-k)*k!*A058843(n,k). - Vladeta Jovovic, Jun 20 2008

1 = Sum_{n=>0} a(n)*x^n/(1 + 2^n*x)^(n+1). - Paul D. Hanna, Oct 17 2009

1 = Sum_{n>=0} a(n)*C(n+m-1,n)*x^n/(1 + 2^n*x)^(n+m) for m>=1. - Paul D. Hanna, Apr 01 2011

log(1+x) = Sum_{n>=1} a(n)*(x^n/n)/(1 + 2^n*x)^n. - Paul D. Hanna, Apr 01 2011

Let E(x) = Sum_{n >= 0} x^n/(n!*2^C(n,2)). Then a generating function for this sequence is 1/E(-x) = Sum_{n >= 0} a(n)*x^n/(n!*2^C(n,2)) = 1 + x + 3*x^2/(2!*2) + 25*x^3/(3!*2^3) + 543*x^4/(4!*2^6) + ... (Stanley). Cf. A188457. - Peter Bala, Apr 01 2013

a(n) ~ n!*2^(n*(n-1)/2)/(M*p^n), where p = 1.488078545599710294656246... is the root of the equation Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n*p^n/(n!*2^(n*(n-1)/2)) = 0, and M = Sum_{n>=1} (-1)^(n+1)*p^n/((n-1)!*2^(n*(n-1)/2)) = 0.57436237330931147691667... Both references to the article "Acyclic digraphs and eigenvalues of (0,1)-matrices" give the wrong value M=0.474! - Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 09 2013 [Response from N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 11 2013: The value 0.474 has a typo, it should have been 0.574. The value was taken from Stanley's 1973 paper.]

exp( Sum_{n >= 1} a(n)*x^n/n ) = 1 + x + 2*x^2 + 10*x^3 + 146*x^4 + 6010*x^5 + ... appears to have integer coefficients (cf. A188490). - Peter Bala, Jan 14 2016

EXAMPLE

For n = 2 the three (0,1)-matrices are {{{1, 0}, {0, 1}}, {{1, 0}, {1, 1}}, {{1, 1}, {0, 1}}}.

MAPLE

p:=evalf(solve(sum((-1)^n*x^n/(n!*2^(n*(n-1)/2)), n=0..infinity) = 0, x), 50); M:=evalf(sum((-1)^(n+1)*p^n/((n-1)!*2^(n*(n-1)/2)), n=1..infinity), 40); # program for evaluation of constants p and M in the asymptotic formula, Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 09 2013

MATHEMATICA

a[0] = a[1] = 1; a[n_] := a[n] = Sum[ -(-1)^k * Binomial[n, k] * 2^(k*(n-k)) * a[n-k], {k, 1, n}]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 13}](* Jean-François Alcover, May 21 2012, after PARI *)

Table[2^(n*(n-1)/2)*n! * SeriesCoefficient[1/Sum[(-1)^k*x^k/k!/2^(k*(k-1)/2), {k, 0, n}], {x, 0, n}], {n, 0, 20}] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, May 19 2015 *)

Table[Length[Select[Subsets[Subsets[Range[n]], {n}], Length[Select[Tuples[#], UnsameQ@@#&]]==1&]], {n, 0, 5}] (* Gus Wiseman, Jan 01 2024 *)

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<1, n==0, sum(k=1, n, -(-1)^k*binomial(n, k)*2^(k*(n-k))*a(n-k)))

(PARI) {a(n)=polcoeff(1-sum(k=0, n-1, a(k)*x^k/(1+2^k*x+x*O(x^n))^(k+1)), n)} \\ Paul D. Hanna, Oct 17 2009

CROSSREFS

Cf. A055165, which counts nonsingular {0, 1} matrices and A085656, which counts positive definite {0, 1} matrices.

For a unique sink we have A003025.

The unlabeled version is A003087.

These are the reverse-alternating sums of rows of A046860.

The weakly connected case is A082402.

A reciprocal version is A334282.