[seqfan] Best way to submit a bunch of snake-polycube-related sequences?

Arthur O'Dwyer arthur.j.odwyer at gmail.com
Mon Dec 26 20:45:11 CET 2022


Hi SeqFans, first time poster here. (So this is also a test message to see
if my messages go through. I'll check
http://list.seqfan.eu/pipermail/seqfan/2022-December/thread.html tomorrow
to find out.)

I've got a whole bunch of related sequences to submit: counts of (free /
one-sided) polyominoes in (2 / 3) dimensions with property (X / Y / X+Y).
Some of these sequences are already in OEIS.  Most aren't.  My question is,
what's the best approach to submit this family of sequences?

Considerations might include
- avoid duplicated effort in editing/revising/approving
- consistency with existing OEIS style
- searchability via the search box
- searchability/legibility to Superseeker

Re the last two bullets: I asked Superseeker to "lookup 1 6 54 416 3111
22898 168460 1242985 9227333 68949103 518618196", and it didn't find
anything; does this mean "A000162 minus A038119, the count of n-celled
chiral polycubes" would be a reasonable submission? or simply that
Superseeker ought to be improved, and it is discouraged to submit
"redundant" sequences like that?


Now, on to my specific sequences...

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/12/08/polyomino-snakes/

Let an "ouroboros" polyform (polyomino, polycube, whatever) be defined as a
connected polyform where each cell has exactly two facewise neighbors.
Let a "snake" polyform be defined as a connected polyform where two cells
have exactly one neighbor each, and each other cell has exactly two
neighbors.
Let a 2D polyomino "with holes" be defined as in A000104 and A057418.
Let a "strip" polyomino be defined as a non-ouroboros snake polyomino
without holes.
Let a 3D polycube "with cavities" be defined as in A357083 and A355966.

I have obtained a decent number of terms in the following 14 sequences:

- Free strip polyominoes: *A333313*
- Free snake polyominoes: *A002013*
- Free ouroboros polyominoes: 1 0 1 1 4 7 31 95 420 1682 ...
- One-sided strip polyominoes: 1 1 2 5 10 24 52 124 282 668 ...
- One-sided snake polyominoes: *A151514*
- One-sided ouroboros polyominoes: 1 0 1 1 4 11 45 178 762 3309 ...
- Free snake polycubes: 1 1 2 4 12 34 125 450 1780 ...
- Free snake polycubes with any cavities: 4 5 24 105 485 2098 9381 40566 ...
- Free ouroboros polycubes: 1 1 3 11 77 606 6465 74314 ...
- Free ouroboros polycubes with any cavities: 2 0 4 23 273 ...
- One-sided snake polycubes: 1 1 2 5 16 54 212 827 3369 ...
- One-sided snake polycubes with any cavities: 8 10 48 210 970 4196 ...
- One-sided ouroboros polycubes: 1 1 3 13 122 1115 12562 ...
- One-sided ouroboros polycubes with any cavities: 3 0 8 46 545 ...

And there are several related sequences that can be defined by
adding/subtracting these, such as:
- Free snake-or-ouroboros polyominoes: 1 1 2 4 7 13 31 66 154 348 ...
- Chiral snake polyominoes (*A151514 minus **A002013*): 0 0 0 1 3 7 17 40
95 224 532 1257 ...
- Free snake polycubes with no cavities
- Free snake-or-ouroboros polycubes with no cavities
and so on and so forth.

Also notice that because there are no ouroboroi with an odd number of
cells, the ouroboros-related sequences above are really like "1 0 1 0 3 0
11 0 77 0 606 0 6465 0 74314 0 ..."
I think it makes sense to eliminate those predictable zeroes, but again I
don't know how that affects consistency and searchability of the OEIS.

Thanks for your help,
Arthur



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