[seqfan] questions about walks in the plane
Neil Sloane
njasloane at gmail.com
Thu May 28 18:26:47 CEST 2020
An old friend (Kees Immink) asked me about the conjecture of David Scambler
in A085363. In fact there are 4 assertions/conjectures in the OEIS of this
type: (the first is only a one-D walk)
%C A001630 Apparently for n>=2 the number of 1-D walks of length n-2 using
steps +1, +3 and -1, avoiding consecutive -1 steps. - _David Scambler_, Jul
15 2013
%C A084768 Number of directed 2-D walks of length 2n starting at (0,0) and
ending on the X-axis using steps NE, SE, NE, SW and avoiding NE followed by
SE. - _David Scambler_, Jun 24 2013
%C A085363 Apparently, the number of 2-D directed walks of semilength n
starting at (0,0) and ending on the X-axis using steps NE, SE, NW and SW
avoiding adjacent NW/SE and adjacent NE/SW. - _David Scambler_, Jun 20 2013
%C A101500 Directed 2-D walks with n steps starting at (0,0) and ending on
the X-axis using steps N,S,E,W and avoiding N followed by S. - _David
Scambler_, Jun 24 2013
I know we have several experts here - could someone help and provide proofs?
The third question is the following:
Let a(n) = the number of 2-D directed walks of semilength n starting at
(0,0) and ending on the X-axis using steps NE, SE, NW and SW avoiding
adjacent NW/SE and adjacent NE/SW
Show that this satisfies the recurrence
a(0)=1; for n>0: a(n) = 4*9^(n-1) - (1/2)*Sum_{i=1..n-1} a(i)*a(n-i).
(The second and fourth questions are stated as if they are theorems, but no
proof is given.)
Neil
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