OFFSET
1,6
COMMENTS
This sequence gives the number of free polyominoes with symmetry group "R" in Redelmeier's notation. See his Tables 1 and 3, also the column "Rot" in Oliveira e Silva's table.
The rotation center of a polyomino with this symmetry may lie at the center of a square, the middle of an edge, or a vertex of a square. These subsets are enumerated by A351615, A234008 and A351616 respectively. - John Mason, Feb 17 2022, reformulated by Günter Rote, Oct 19 2023
REFERENCES
S. W. Golomb, Polyominoes, Princeton Univ. Press, NJ, 1994.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
John Mason, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..50
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Numbers of polyominoes classified according to Redelmeier's symmetry classes (an extract from the previous link)
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...
FORMULA
a(n) = A351615(n) + A234008(n/2) + A351616(n/2) for even n, otherwise a(n) = A351615(n). - John Mason, Feb 17 2022
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 0 because the "domino" polyomino has symmetry group of order 4.
For n=3, the three-celled polyomino [ | | ] has group of order 4, and the polyomino
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has only reflective symmetry, so a(3) = 0.
a(4) = 1 because of (in Golomb's notation) the "skew tetromino".
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Extended to n=28 by Tomás Oliveira e Silva
a(1)-a(3) prepended by Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2018
Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 28 2020
a(29)-a(36) from John Mason, Oct 16 2021
STATUS
approved