A000226 Number of n-node unlabeled connected graphs with one cycle of length 3.

1, 1, 3, 7, 18, 44, 117, 299, 793, 2095, 5607, 15047, 40708, 110499, 301541, 825784, 2270211, 6260800, 17319689, 48042494, 133606943, 372430476, 1040426154, 2912415527, 8167992598, 22947778342, 64577555147, 182009003773, 513729375064, 1452007713130

Offset: 3

Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

• nonn
• nice

Comments

Number of rooted trees on n+1 nodes where root has degree 3. - Christian G. Bower

Third column of A033185. - Michael Somos, Aug 20 2018

From Washington Bomfim, Dec 22 2020: (Start)

Number of forests of 3 rooted trees with a total of n nodes.

Number of unicyclic graphs with a cycle of length 3 and a total of n nodes.

(End)

References

• J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, p. 150.
• N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
• N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 3..1000 (first 198 terms from Vincenzo Librandi)
• Sergei Abramovich, Partitions of integers, Ferrers-Young diagrams, and representational efficacy of spreadsheet modeling, Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE): Vol. 5: Iss. 2, Article 1, p. 5
• Washington Bomfim, Illustration of initial terms
• F. Ruskey, Combinatorial Generation, Eq.(4.27), 2003
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Rooted Tree
• Index entries for sequences related to rooted trees

Crossrefs

Column 3 of A033185 and A217781.

Cf. A000081, A001429.

For n >= 3 a(n) = A217781(n, 3) = A058879(n, n-2) = A033185(n, 3).

Programs

Maple

b:= proc(n) option remember; if n<=1 then n else add(k*b(k)* s(n-1, k), k=1..n-1)/(n-1) fi end: s:= proc(n,k) option remember; add(b(n+1-j*k), j=1..iquo(n,k)) end: B:= proc(n) option remember; unapply(add(b(k)*x^k, k=1..n),x) end: a:= n-> coeff(series((B(n-2)(x)^3+ 3*B(n-2)(x)* B(n-2)(x^2)+ 2*B(n-2)(x^3))/6, x=0, n+1), x,n): seq(a(n), n=3..40); # Alois P. Heinz, Aug 21 2008

Mathematica

terms = 30; r[] = 0; Do[r[x] = x *Exp[Sum[r[x^k]/k, {k, 1, j}]] + O[x]^j // Normal, {j, 1, terms+3}]; A[x_] = (r[x]^3 + 3*r[x]*r[x^2] + 2*r[x^3])/6 + O[x]^(terms+3); Drop[CoefficientList[A[x], x], 3] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 23 2011, updated Jan 11 2018 *)

PARI

seq(max_n) = {my(a = f = vector(max_n), s, D); f[1]=1;
for(j=1, max_n - 1, f[j+1] = 1/j * sum(k=1, j, sumdiv(k,d, d * f[d]) * f[j-k+1]));
for(n=3,max_n,s=0;forpart(P=n,D=Set(P);if(#D==3,s+=f[P[1]]*f[P[2]]*f[P[3]];next());
if(#D==1, s+= binomial(f[P[1]]+2, 3); next());
if(P[1] == P[2], s += binomial(f[P[1]]+1, 2) * f[P[3]],
s += binomial(f[P[2]]+1, 2) * f[P[1]]),[1,n],[3,3]); a[n] = s ); a[3..max_n] }; \\ Washington Bomfim, Dec 22 2020

Formula

G.f.: (r(x)^3+3*r(x)*r(x^2)+2*r(x^3))/6 where r(x) is g.f. for rooted trees (A000081).

a(n) = Sum_{j1+2j2+···= n} (Product_{i=1..n} binomial(A000081(i) + j_i -1, j_i)) [(4.27) of [F. Ruskey] with n replaced by n+1]. - Washington Bomfim, Dec 22 2020

a(n) ~ (A187770 + A339986) * A051491^n / (2 * n^(3/2)). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 25 2020

Extensions

More terms from Vladeta Jovovic, Apr 19 2000