[seqfan] Re: Knight Tour recurrences - same as King Tour

Ron Hardin rhhardin at att.net
Fri Feb 25 23:35:20 CET 2011


I don't have enough queen/rook/bishop results yet to tell, but row 1 will be the 
same for bounded as unbounded in any case, being just the starting position.

 rhhardin at mindspring.com
rhhardin at att.net (either)



----- Original Message ----
> From: "franktaw at netscape.net" <franktaw at netscape.net>
> To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu
> Sent: Fri, February 25, 2011 5:19:37 PM
> Subject: [seqfan] Re: Knight Tour recurrences - same as King Tour
> 
> Probably you will only see that recurrence for pieces with only a finite  
>(bounded) number of moves on any turn. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess  
>that you will see a recurrence 4a(n-1) - 6a(n-2) + 4a(n-3) - a(n-4) for pieces  
>with unbounded moves.
> 
> Franklin T. Adams-Watters
> 
> -----Original  Message-----
> From: Ron Hardin <rhhardin at att.net>
> 
> Knight tour  counts have the same recurrence as the king tour counts (row 1 of
> course is  automatic, but for all rows to have the same recurrence still  
seems
> surprising), suggesting now a wild guess that any sort of piece-move  will 
have
> that same recurrence; I don't have enough numbers yet to  tell.
> 
> T(n,k)=Number of n-step knight's tours on a (k+2)X(k+2) board  summed over all
> starting positions
> 
> Table  starts
> ..9...16.....25......36......49......64......81.....100....121....144...1
> 69
> .16...48.....96.....160.....240.....336.....448.....576....720....880..10
> 56
> .16..104....328.....664....1112....1672....2344....3128...4024...5032..61
> 52
> .16..208....976....2576....5056....8320...12368...17200..22816..29216.364
> 00
> .16..400...2800....9328...21480...39616...63440...92656.127264.167264....
> ..
> .16..800...8352...34448...91328..186544..322528..498320.712080...........
> ..
> .16.1280..21664..118480..372384..847520.1584576.2596480..................
> ..
> .16.2208..57392..405040.1508784.3846192.7777808..........................
> ..
> ..0.3184.135184.1290112.5807488..........................................
> ..
> ..0.4640.317296.4089632..................................................
> ..
> 
> Empirical,  for all rows: a(n)=3*a(n-1)-3*a(n-2)+a(n-3) for  n>3,3,4,6,8,10
> respectively for row in 1..6
> rhhardin at mindspring.com
> rhhardin at att.net (either)
> 
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