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A000602 Number of n-node unrooted quartic trees; number of n-carbon alkanes C(n)H(2n+2) ignoring stereoisomers.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 18, 35, 75, 159, 355, 802, 1858, 4347, 10359, 24894, 60523, 148284, 366319, 910726, 2278658, 5731580, 14490245, 36797588, 93839412, 240215803, 617105614, 1590507121, 4111846763, 10660307791, 27711253769
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Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

Comments

Trees are unrooted, nodes are unlabeled. Every node has degree <= 4.
Ignoring stereoisomers means that the children of a node are unordered. They can be permuted in any way and it is still the same tree. See A000628 for the analogous sequence with stereoisomers counted.
In alkanes every carbon has valence exactly 4 and every hydrogen has valence exactly 1. But the trees considered here are just the carbon "skeletons" (with all the hydrogen atoms stripped off) so now each carbon bonds to 1 to 4 other carbons. The degree of each node is then <= 4.

Examples

			a(6)=5 because hexane has five isomers: n-hexane; 2-methylpentane; 3-methylpentane; 2,2-dimethylbutane; 2,3-dimethylbutane. - Michael Lugo (mtlugo(AT)mit.edu), Mar 15 2003 (corrected by _Andrey V. Kulsha_, Sep 22 2011)

References

  • Klemens Adam, Die Anzahlbestimmung der isomeren Alkane, MNU 1983, 36, 29 (in German).
  • F. Bergeron, G. Labelle and P. Leroux, Combinatorial Species and Tree-Like Structures, Camb. 1998, p. 290.
  • L. Bytautats, D. J. Klein, Alkane Isomer Combinatorics: Stereostructure enumeration and graph-invariant and molecular-property distributions, J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci 39 (1999) 803, Table 1.
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  • R. Davies and P. J. Freyd, C_{167}H_{336} is The Smallest Alkane with More Realizable Isomers than the Observable Universe has Particles, Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 66, 1989, pp. 278-281.
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  • J. L. Gross and J. Yellen, eds., Handbook of Graph Theory, CRC Press, 2004; p. 529.
  • Handbook of Combinatorics, North-Holland '95, p. 1963.
  • J. B. Hendrickson and C. A. Parks, "Generation and Enumeration of Carbon skeletons", J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci, vol. 31 (1991) pp. 101-107. See Table 2, column 2 on page 103.
  • M. D. Jackson and T. I. Bieber, Applications of degree distribution, 2: construction and enumeration of isomers in the alkane series, J. Chem. Info. and Computer Science, 33 (1993), 701-708.
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  • N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
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  • S. Wagner, Graph-theoretical enumeration and digital expansions: an analytic approach, Dissertation, Fakult. f. Tech. Math. u. Tech. Physik, Tech. Univ. Graz, Austria, Feb., 2006.

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Crossrefs

Column k=4 of A144528.
A000602 = A000022 + A000200 for n>0.
Cf. A000598, A000625, A000628, A067608, A067609, A067610.

Programs

  • Maple
    A000602 := proc(n)
    if n=0 then
        1
    else
        A000022(n)+A000200(n);
    end if;
end proc:
  • Mathematica
    n = 40; (* algorithm from Rains and Sloane *)
S3[f_,h_,x_] := f[h,x]^3/6 + f[h,x] f[h,x^2]/2 + f[h,x^3]/3;
S4[f_,h_,x_] := f[h,x]^4/24 + f[h,x]^2 f[h,x^2]/4 + f[h,x] f[h,x^3]/3 + f[h,x^2]^2/8 + f[h,x^4]/4;
T[-1,z_] := 1;  T[h_,z_] := T[h,z] = Table[z^k, {k,0,n}].Take[CoefficientList[z^(n+1) + 1 + S3[T,h-1,z]z, z], n+1];
Sum[Take[CoefficientList[z^(n+1) + S4[T,h-1,z]z - S4[T,h-2,z]z - (T[h-1,z] - T[h-2,z]) (T[h-1,z]-1),z], n+1], {h,1,n/2}] + PadRight[{1,1}, n+1] + Sum[Take[CoefficientList[z^(n+1) + (T[h,z] - T[h-1,z])^2/2 + (T[h,z^2] - T[h-1,z^2])/2, z],n+1], {h,0,n/2}] (* Robert A. Russell, Sep 15 2018 *)
b[n_, i_, t_, k_] := b[n,i,t,k] = If[i<1, 0, Sum[Binomial[b[i-1,i-1,
  k,k] + j-1, j]* b[n-i*j, i-1, t-j, k], {j, 0, Min[t, n/i]}]];
b[0, i_, t_, k_] = 1; m = 3; (* m = maximum children *) n = 40;
gf[x_] = 1 + Sum[b[j-1,j-1,m,m]x^j,{j,1,n}]; (* G.f. for A000598 *)
ci[x_] = SymmetricGroupIndex[m+1, x] /. x[i_] -> gf[x^i];
CoefficientList[Normal[Series[gf[x] - (gf[x]^2 - gf[x^2])/2 + x ci[x],
{x, 0, n}]],x] (* Robert A. Russell, Jan 19 2023 *)

Formula

a(n) = A010372(n) + A010373(n/2) for n even, a(n) = A010372(n) for n odd.
Also equals A000022 + A000200 (n>0), both of which have known generating functions. Also g.f. = A000678(x) - A000599(x) + A000598(x^2) = (x + x^2 + 2x^3 + ...) - (x^2 + x^3 + 3x^4 + ...) + (1 + x^2 + x^4 + ...) = 1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + 2x^4 + 3x^5 + ...
G.f.: B(x) - cycle_index(S2,-B(x)) + x * cycle_index(S4,B(x)) = B(x) - (B(x)^2 - B(x^2)) / 2 + x * (B(x)^4 + 6*B(x)^2*B(x^2) + 8*B(x)*B(x^3) + 3*B(x^2)^2 + 6*B(x^4)) / 24, where B(x) = 1 + x * cycle_index(S3,B(x)) = 1 + x * (B(x)^3 + 3*B(x)*B(x^2) + 2*B(x^3)) / 6 is the generating function for A000598. - Robert A. Russell, Jan 16 2023

Extensions

Additional comments from Steve Strand (snstrand(AT)comcast.net), Aug 20 2003

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