1,2

The sequence can be regarded as a triangular array read by rows. Each row is a permutation of a block of consecutive numbers; the blocks are disjoint and every positive number belongs to some block. The length of row n is 4n-3 = A016813(n+1), n > 0.

The sequence can also be regarded as a table read by upward antidiagonals. For n>1 row n joins two consecutive antidiagonals.

The sequence is an intra-block permutation of the positive integers.

Generalization of Cantor numbering method.

This sequence and A378684 generate via composition a finite non-abelian group of permutations of positive integers, isomorphic to the alternating group A4. The list of the 12 elements of that group: this sequence, A380200 (the inverse permutation), A000027 (the identity permutation), A381662, A380817, A376214, A378684, A379342, A380245, A381664, A380815, A381663. For subgroups and the Cayley table of the group A4 see Boris Putievskiy (2025) link. - Boris Putievskiy, Mar 11 2025

Boris Putievskiy, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..9730

Boris Putievskiy, Integer Sequences: Irregular Arrays and Intra-Block Permutations, arXiv:2310.18466 [math.CO], 2023.

Boris Putievskiy, The Alternating Group A4: Subgroups and the Cayley Table (2025).

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Alternating Group.

Index entries for sequences that are permutations of the natural numbers.

Linear sequence: (a(1),a(2), ... a(A000384(n+1))) is a permutation of the positive integers from 1 to A000384(n+1). ord((a(1),a(2), ... a(A000384(n+1)))) = 3, where ord is the order of the permutation.

Triangular array T(n,k) for 1 <= k <= 4n - 3 (see Example): T(n,k) = A000384(n-1) + P(n,k), P(n,k) = k + 1, if k < m(n) and k mod 2 = 1, P(n,k) = k + m(n) - 1, if k < m(n) and k mod 2 = 0, P(n,k) = k, if k => m(n) and k mod 2 = 1, P(n,k) = k - m(n), if k => m(n) and k mod 2 = 0, where m(n) = 2n-1.

G.f.: x*y*(1 + x^8*y^4 + x*(2 + y) + x^7*y^3*(9 + 8*y) - x^3*y*(8 + 8*y - 3*y^2) - x^2*(1 - 8*y - 9*y^2) + x^6*(y^2 - 4*y^3 - 5*y^4) + x^5*(3*y - 8*y^3 - 2*y^4) + 2*x^4*(1 - 2*y - 5*y^2 + y^4))/((1 - x)^3*(1 + x)^2*(1 - x*y)^3*(1 + x*y)^2). - Stefano Spezia, Dec 21 2024

Square array begins:

1, 5, 6, 14, 15, ...

3, 2, 10, 9, 21, ...

4, 12, 13, 25, 26, ...

8, 7, 19, 18, 34, ...

11, 23, 24, 40, 41, ...

...

The first 5 antidiagonals are:

1;

3, 5;

4, 2, 6;

8, 12, 10, 14;

11, 7, 13, 9, 15;

Triangle array begins:

k= 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

n=1: 1;

n=2: 3, 5, 4, 2, 6;

n=3: 8, 12, 10, 14, 11, 7, 13, 9, 15;

For n > 1, each row of triangle array joins two consecutive upward antidiagonals in the table.

ord(1,3,5... 9,15) = 3.

Subtracting (n-1)*(2*n-3) from each term is row n produces a permutation of numbers from 1 to 4*n-3:

1;

2, 4, 3, 1, 5;

2, 6, 4, 8, 5, 1, 7, 3, 9;

T[n_, k_]:=(2*(k+n-1)^2+2k-2n+3+(-2k-2n+3)*(-1)^n-(-1)^k+(-2k-2n+1)*(-1)^(k+n))/4; Table[T[k, n], {k, 1, 5}, {n, 1, 5}]

Cf. A016813 (row lengths), A000384, A000027, A381662, A380817, A376214, A380200, A378684, A379342, A380245, A381664, A380815, A381663.

Sequence in context: A253074 A055266 A338843 * A378684 A381664 A381663

Adjacent sequences: A379340 A379341 A379342 * A379344 A379345 A379346

nonn,tabl,easy

Boris Putievskiy, Dec 21 2024

approved