OFFSET
3,2
COMMENTS
Total number of dissections of an n-gon into polygons without reflection and rooted at a cell. - Sean A. Irvine, May 14 2015
Say two n-gons are equivalent (or in the same convexity class) if there is a bijection between the edges and vertices which preserves inclusion of vertices and edges, preserves the handedness of the polygon (does not reflect the polygon over a line), maps vertices of the convex hulls to each other, and induces an equivalence on each nontrivially connected component of Hull(X) \ X. This sequence is the number of convexity classes for an n-gon, up to rotation. - Griffin N. Macris, Mar 02 2021
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 3..200
P. Lisonek, Closed forms for the number of polygon dissections, Journal of Symbolic Computation 20 (1995), 595-601.
Ronald C. Read, On general dissections of a polygon, Aequat. math. 18 (1978) 370-388.
FORMULA
G.f.: -f(x) - (f(x)^2 + f(x^2))/2 + Sum_{k>=1} (phi(k)/k)*log(1/(1 - f(x^k))), where phi(k) is Euler's Totient function and f(x) = (1 + x - sqrt(1 - 6x + x^2))/4 is related to the o.g.f. for A001003. - Griffin N. Macris, Mar 02 2021
PROG
(PARI) \\ See A003442 for DissectionsModCyclicRooted.
DissectionsModCyclicRooted(apply(i->1, [1..30])) \\ Andrew Howroyd, Nov 22 2017
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Sean A. Irvine, May 14 2015
Name clarified by Andrew Howroyd, Nov 22 2017
STATUS
approved