Riordan Arrays and Shifted Hankel Determinants of OEIS A005773

Abstract

We study two Riordan arrays associated with the Motzkin-prefix sequence (\href{https://oeis.org/A005773}{OEIS A005773}). By connecting their production matrices through a simple boundary factorization, we obtain a period-three transformation on Motzkin endpoint distributions and exact formulas for paths by final height modulo~$3$. In addition, a unified factorization for the shifted Hankel matrices leads directly to explicit closed forms for the third and fourth Hankel determinants, ${\Delta }_n^{(3)}$ and~${\Delta }_n^{(4)}$.

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