A001429 Number of n-node connected unicyclic graphs.

1, 2, 5, 13, 33, 89, 240, 657, 1806, 5026, 13999, 39260, 110381, 311465, 880840, 2497405, 7093751, 20187313, 57537552, 164235501, 469406091, 1343268050, 3848223585, 11035981711, 31679671920, 91021354454, 261741776369, 753265624291, 2169441973139, 6252511838796

Offset: 3

Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

• nonn
• nice

Comments

Also unlabeled connected simple graphs with n vertices and n edges. The labeled version is A057500. - Gus Wiseman, Feb 12 2024

Examples

			From _Gus Wiseman_, Feb 12 2024: (Start)
Representatives of the a(3) = 1 through a(6) = 13 simple graphs:
  {12,13,23}  {12,13,14,23}  {12,13,14,15,23}  {12,13,14,15,16,23}
              {12,13,24,34}  {12,13,14,23,25}  {12,13,14,15,23,26}
                             {12,13,14,23,45}  {12,13,14,15,23,46}
                             {12,13,14,25,35}  {12,13,14,15,26,36}
                             {12,13,24,35,45}  {12,13,14,23,25,36}
                                               {12,13,14,23,25,46}
                                               {12,13,14,23,45,46}
                                               {12,13,14,23,45,56}
                                               {12,13,14,25,26,35}
                                               {12,13,14,25,35,46}
                                               {12,13,14,25,35,56}
                                               {12,13,14,25,36,56}
                                               {12,13,24,35,46,56}
(End)
		

References

• R. C. Read and R. J. Wilson, An Atlas of Graphs, Oxford, 1998.
• 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

• Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 3..500
• Washington G. Bomfim, A picture of the twenty one unicycles with 3,4,5 and 6 vertices
• Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory, Graphs and unicyclic graphs with extremal connected subgraphs, arXiv:1812.02422 [math.CO], 2018.
• R. K. Guy, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, 1988-04-12 (annotated scanned copy) Includes illustrations for n <= 6.
• R. K. Guy, The Second Strong Law of Small Numbers, Math. Mag, 63 (1990), no. 1, 3-20. [Annotated scanned copy]
• S. Karim, J. Sawada, Z. Alamgirz and S. M. Husnine, Generating bracelets with fixed content, Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 475, 4 March 2013, Pages 103-112.
• Richard J. Mathar, Counting Connected Graphs without Overlapping Cycles, arXiv:1808.06264 [math.CO], 2018.
• Marko Riedel et al., Non-isomorphic, connected, unicyclic graphs, Math Stackexchange, November 2018. (Derivation of algorithm and Maple implementation using PET.)
• Marko Riedel, Maple implementation using PET.
• M. L. Stein and P. R. Stein, Enumeration of Linear Graphs and Connected Linear Graphs up to p = 18 Points, Report LA-3775, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, Los Alamos, NM, Oct 1967. doi: 10.2172/4180737.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Unicyclic Graph

Crossrefs

For at most one cycle we have A005703, labeled A129271, complement A140637.

Next-to-main diagonal of A054924. Cf. A000055.

The labeled version is A057500, connected case of A137916.

This is the connected case of A137917 and A236570.

Row k = 1 of A137918.

The version with loops is A368983.

A001349 counts unlabeled connected graphs.

A001434 and A006649 count unlabeled graphs with # vertices = # edges.

A006129 counts covering graphs, unlabeled A002494.

Cf. A014068, A054548, A116508, A133686, A140638, A369143, A369201.

Programs

Mathematica

Needs["Combinatorica`"];
nn=30;s[n_,k_]:=s[n,k]=a[n+1-k]+If[n<2k,0,s[n-k,k]];a[1]=1;a[n_]:=a[n]=Sum[a[i]s[n-1,i]i,{i,1,n-1}]/(n-1);rt=Table[a[i],{i,1,nn}];Apply[Plus,Table[Take[CoefficientList[CycleIndex[DihedralGroup[n],s]/.Table[s[j]->Table[Sum[rt[[i]]x^(k*i),{i,1,nn}],{k,1,nn}][[j]],{j,1,nn}],x],nn],{n,3,nn}]]  (* Geoffrey Critzer, Oct 12 2012, after code given by Robert A. Russell in A000081 *)
(* Second program: *)
TreeGf[nn_] := Module[{A}, A = Table[1, {nn}]; For[n = 1, n <= nn 1, n++, A[[n + 1]] = 1/n * Sum[Sum[ d*A[[d]], {d, Divisors[k]}]*A[[n - k + 1]], {k, 1, n}]]; x A.x^Range[0, nn-1]];
seq[n_] := Module[{t, g}, If[n < 3, {}, t = TreeGf[n - 2]; g[e_] := Normal[t + O[x]^(Quotient[n, e]+1)] /. x -> x^e  + O[x]^(n+1); Sum[Sum[ EulerPhi[d]*g[d]^(k/d), {d, Divisors[k]}]/k + If[OddQ[k], g[1]* g[2]^Quotient[k, 2], (g[1]^2 + g[2])*g[2]^(k/2-1)/2], {k, 3, n}]]/2 // Drop[CoefficientList[#, x], 3]&];
seq[32] (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 05 2019, after Andrew Howroyd's PARI code *)

PARI

\\ TreeGf gives gf of A000081
TreeGf(N)={my(A=vector(N, j, 1)); for (n=1, N-1, A[n+1] = 1/n * sum(k=1, n, sumdiv(k, d, d*A[d]) * A[n-k+1] ) ); x*Ser(A)}
seq(n)={if(n<3, [], my(t=TreeGf(n-2)); my(g(e)=subst(t + O(x*x^(n\e)),x,x^e) + O(x*x^n)); Vec(sum(k=3, n, sumdiv(k, d, eulerphi(d)*g(d)^(k/d))/k + if(k%2, g(1)*g(2)^(k\2), (g(1)^2+g(2))*g(2)^(k/2-1)/2))/2))} \\ Andrew Howroyd, May 05 2018

Formula

a(n) = A068051(n) - A027852(n) - A000081(n).

Extensions

More terms from Ronald C. Read

a(27) corrected, more terms, formula from Christian G. Bower, Feb 12 2002

Edited by Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 05 2009

Terms a(30) and beyond from Andrew Howroyd, May 05 2018