OFFSET
5,2
COMMENTS
A tooth of base r is a finite stack of rows of unit cubes with bottom row of length r, weakly decreasing row lengths, and no row overhanging the row beneath it. This sequence is column c=5 of the triangle A072704.
REFERENCES
Paul M. King, Generating Functions for Temperley's No-Overhang Stacked Partitions, Journal of Integer Sequences (submitted).
LINKS
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1,1,0,0,-1,-1,-1,1,1,1,0,0,-1,-1,1).
FORMULA
G.f.: h_5(q) = q^5*(1+q)*(1+4q+3q^2+2q^3+3q^4+q^5+q^6)/((1-q)*(1-q^2)*(1-q^3)*(1-q^4)*(1-q^5)).
T(5,N) = [q^N] h_5(q) where h_r(q) satisfies (1-q^r)*h_r(q) = 2q*h_{r-1}(q) - q^2*h_{r-2}(q), with h_0(q)=1 and h_1(q)=q/(1-q).
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,new
AUTHOR
Paul M. King, Apr 28 2026
STATUS
approved
