# Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences! http://oeis.org/ Search: id:a135443 Showing 1-1 of 1 %I A135443 #10 May 05 2023 01:42:43 %S A135443 2,8,12,40,84,144,220,312,420,544,684,840,1012,1200,1404,1624,1860, %T A135443 2112,2380,2664,2964,3280,3612,3960,4324,4704,5100,5512,5940,6384, %U A135443 6844,7320,7812,8320,8844,9384,9940,10512,11100,11704,12324,12960,13612,14280 %N A135443 Number of maximal directed trails in the labeled n-ladder graph P_2 X P_n. %F A135443 For n > 2, a(n) = 4 * (n-2) * (2*n - 3) = A033586(n-2). - _Max Alekseyev_, May 04 2023 %e A135443 For n = 4 the graph is %e A135443 .__.__.__. %e A135443 |__|__|__| %e A135443 Names of nodes: %e A135443 1 2 3 4 %e A135443 a b c d %e A135443 Maximal directed paths which start from node 3: %e A135443 34dcba123c %e A135443 34dc32ba12 %e A135443 34dc321ab2 %e A135443 34dc321abc %e A135443 3cd432ba12 %e A135443 3cd4321ab2 %e A135443 3cd4321abc %e A135443 3cba1234dc %e A135443 321abc34dc %e A135443 321abcd43c %e A135443 There are also paths from nodes c,b,2. So n(4) = 4*10 = 40. %Y A135443 Apart from initial terms sequence is the same as A033586. %Y A135443 Cf. A003682, A089243. %K A135443 nonn,walk %O A135443 1,1 %A A135443 _Yasutoshi Kohmoto_, Feb 18 2008 %E A135443 Edited and extended by _Max Alekseyev_, May 04 2023 # Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement: http://oeis.org/LICENSE