A000675 Number of centered 3-valent (or boron, or binary) trees with n nodes.

1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 19, 36, 68, 138, 277, 581, 1218, 2591, 5545, 12026, 26226, 57719, 127685, 284109, 634919, 1425516, 3212890, 7269605, 16504439, 37592604, 85876345, 196717882, 451768247, 1039990913, 2399476030, 5547849750

Offset: 0

Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

• nonn
• easy
• nice

References

• A. Cayley, On the analytical forms called trees, with application to the theory of chemical combinations, Reports British Assoc. Advance. Sci. 45 (1875), 257-305 = Math. Papers, Vol. 9, 427-460 (see p. 451).
• R. C. Read, personal communication.
• 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

• E. M. Rains and N. J. A. Sloane, On Cayley's Enumeration of Alkanes (or 4-Valent Trees), J. Integer Sequences, Vol. 2 (1999), Article 99.1.1.
• R. C. Read, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Oct. 29, 1976
• Index entries for sequences related to trees

Crossrefs

A000672 = A000673 + A000675. Cf. A000022, A000200, A000602.

Programs

Mathematica

n = 50; (* algorithm from Rains and Sloane *)
S2[f_,h_,x_] := f[h,x]^2/2 + f[h,x^2]/2;
S3[f_,h_,x_] := f[h,x]^3/6 + f[h,x] f[h,x^2]/2 + f[h,x^3]/3;
T[-1,z_] := 1;  T[h_,z_] := T[h,z] = Table[z^k, {k,0,n}].Take[CoefficientList[z^(n+1) + 1 + S2[T,h-1,z]z, z], n+1];
Sum[Take[CoefficientList[z^(n+1) + S3[T,h-1,z]z - S3[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] (* Robert A. Russell, Sep 15 2018 *)