OFFSET
5,2
COMMENTS
In other words, the number of (n-5)-dissections of an n-gon modulo the cyclic action.
Equivalently, the number of two-dimensional faces of the (n-3)-dimensional associahedron modulo the cyclic action.
The dissection will always be composed of either 1 pentagon and n-5 triangles or 2 quadrilaterals and n-6 triangles. - Andrew Howroyd, Nov 24 2017
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 5..200
D. Bowman and A. Regev, Counting symmetry classes of dissections of a convex regular polygon, arXiv:1209.6270 [math.CO], 2012.
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
See Maple program.
MAPLE
C:=n->binomial(2*n, n)/(n+1);
T31:=proc(n) local t1; global C;
t1 := (n-3)^2*(n-4)*C(n-2)/(4*n*(2*n-5));
if n mod 5 = 0 then t1:=t1+(4/5)*C(n/5-1) fi;
if n mod 2 = 0 then t1:=t1+(n-4)*C(n/2-1)/8 fi;
t1; end;
[seq(T31(n), n=5..40)];
MATHEMATICA
Table[t1 = (n - 3)^2*(n - 4)*CatalanNumber[n - 2]/(4*n*(2*n - 5)); If[Mod[n, 5] == 0, t1 = t1 + (4/5)*CatalanNumber[n/5 - 1]]; If[Mod[n, 2] == 0, t1 = t1 + (n - 4)*CatalanNumber[n/2 - 1]/8]; t1, {n, 5, 20}] (* T. D. Noe, Jan 03 2013 *)
PROG
(PARI) \\ See A295495 for DissectionsModCyclic()
{ my(v=DissectionsModCyclic(apply(i->if(i>=3&&i<=5, y^(i-3) + O(y^3)), [1..30]))); apply(p->polcoeff(p, 2), v[5..#v]) } \\ Andrew Howroyd, Nov 24 2017
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Entry revised (following Bowman and Regev) by N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 28 2012
Name clarified by Andrew Howroyd, Nov 25 2017
STATUS
approved