A classification of Motzkin numbers modulo 8

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作者
Wang, Ying [1 ]
Xin, Guoce [1 ]
机构
[1] Capital Normal Univ, Sch Math Sci, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China
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ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS | 2018年 / 25卷 / 01期
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Motzkin numbers; congruence classes; CONGRUENCES; CATALAN;
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O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
The well-known Motzkin numbers were conjectured by Deutsch and Sagan to be nonzero modulo 8. The conjecture was first proved by Sen-Peng Eu, Shu-chung Liu and Yeong-Nan Yeh by using the factorial representation of the Catalan numbers. We present a short proof by finding a recursive formula for Motzkin numbers modulo 8. Moreover, such a recursion leads to a full classification of Motzkin numbers modulo 8.
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