Self-describing sequences and the Catalan family tree

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Authors Zoran Šuniḱ

Publication date 24 September 2003

Published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305319, http://www.emis.de/journals/EJC/Volume_10/Abstracts/v10i1n5.html

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Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Trees (05C05) Calculation of integer sequences (11Y55)

Abstract: We introduce a transformation of finite integer sequences, show that every sequence eventually stabilizes under this transformation and that the number of fixed points is counted by the Catalan numbers. The sequences that are fixed are precisely those that describe themselves -- every term $t$ is equal to the number of previous terms that are smaller than $t$. In addition, we provide an easy way to enumerate all these self-describing sequences by organizing them in a Catalan tree with a specific labelling system.

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