Triangular array

Not to be confused with Triangular matrix.
The triangular array whose right-hand diagonal sequence consists of Bell numbers

In mathematics and computing, a triangular array of numbers, polynomials, or the like, is a doubly indexed sequence in which each row is only as long as the row's own index.

Examples

Notable particular examples include these:

Triangular arrays of integers in which each row is symmetric and begins and ends with 1 are sometimes called generalized Pascal triangles; examples include Pascal's triangle, the Narayana numbers, and the triangle of Eulerian numbers.[9]

Generalizations

Triangular arrays may list mathematical values other than numbers; for instance the Bell polynomials form a triangular array in which each array entry is a polynomial.[10]

Arrays in which the length of each row grows as a linear function of the row number (rather than being equal to the row number) have also been considered.[11]

Applications

Apart from the representation of triangular matrices, triangular arrays are used in several algorithms. One example is the CYK algorithm for parsing context-free grammars, an example of dynamic programming.[12]

Romberg's method can be used to estimate the value of a definite integral by completing the values in a triangle of numbers.[13]

The Boustrophedon transform uses a triangular array to transform one integer sequence into another.[14]

See also

References

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  7. Barry, Paul (2011), "On a generalization of the Narayana triangle", Journal of Integer Sequences 14 (4): Article 11.4.5, 22, MR 2792161.
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  9. Barry, P. (2006), "On integer-sequence-based constructions of generalized Pascal triangles" (PDF), Journal of Integer Sequences 9 (06.2.4): 1–34.
  10. Rota Bulò, Samuel; Hancock, Edwin R.; Aziz, Furqan; Pelillo, Marcello (2012), "Efficient computation of Ihara coefficients using the Bell polynomial recursion", Linear Algebra and its Applications 436 (5): 1436–1441, doi:10.1016/j.laa.2011.08.017, MR 2890929.
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  12. Indurkhya, Nitin; Damerau, Fred J., eds. (2010), Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition, CRC Press, p. 65, ISBN 9781420085938.
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  14. Millar, Jessica; Sloane, N. J. A.; Young, Neal E. (1996), "A new operation on sequences: the Boustrouphedon transform", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 76 (1): 44–54, arXiv:math.CO/0205218, doi:10.1006/jcta.1996.0087.

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