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A000312 a(n) = n^n; number of labeled mappings from n points to themselves (endofunctions).

1, 1, 4, 27, 256, 3125, 46656, 823543, 16777216, 387420489, 10000000000, 285311670611, 8916100448256, 302875106592253, 11112006825558016, 437893890380859375, 18446744073709551616, 827240261886336764177, 39346408075296537575424, 1978419655660313589123979

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Also number of labeled pointed rooted trees (or vertebrates) on n nodes.
For n >= 1 a(n) is also the number of n X n (0,1) matrices in which each row contains exactly one entry equal to 1. - Avi Peretz (njk(AT)netvision.net.il), Apr 21 2001
Also the number of labeled rooted trees on (n+1) nodes such that the root is lower than its children. Also the number of alternating labeled rooted ordered trees on (n+1) nodes such that the root is lower than its children. - Cedric Chauve (chauve(AT)lacim.uqam.ca), Mar 27 2002
With p(n) = the number of integer partitions of n, p(i) = the number of parts of the i-th partition of n, d(i) = the number of different parts of the i-th partition of n, p(j, i) = the j-th part of the i-th partition of n, m(i, j) = multiplicity of the j-th part of the i-th partition of n, one has: a(n) = Sum_{i=1..p(n)} (n!/(Product_{j=1..p(i)} p(i, j)!)) * ((n!/(n - p(i)))!/(Product_{j=1..d(i)} m(i, j)!)). - Thomas Wieder, May 18 2005
All rational solutions to the equation x^y = y^x, with x < y, are given by x = A000169(n+1)/A000312(n), y = A000312(n+1)/A007778(n), where n = 1, 2, 3, ... . - Nick Hobson, Nov 30 2006
a(n) is the total number of leaves in all (n+1)^(n-1) trees on {0,1,2,...,n} rooted at 0. For example, with edges directed away from the root, the trees on {0,1,2} are {0->1,0->2},{0->1->2},{0->2->1} and contain a total of a(2)=4 leaves. - David Callan, Feb 01 2007
Limit_{n->infinity} A000169(n+1)/a(n) = exp(1). Convergence is slow, e.g., it takes n > 74 to get one decimal place correct and n > 163 to get two of them. - Alonso del Arte, Jun 20 2011
Also smallest k such that binomial(k, n) is divisible by n^(n-1), n > 0. - Michel Lagneau, Jul 29 2013
For n >= 2 a(n) is represented in base n as "one followed by n zeros". - R. J. Cano, Aug 22 2014
Number of length-n words over the alphabet of n letters. - Joerg Arndt, May 15 2015
Number of prime parking functions of length n+1. - Rui Duarte, Jul 27 2015
The probability density functions p(x, m=q, n=q, mu=1) = A000312(q)*E(x, q, q) and p(x, m=q, n=1, mu=q) = (A000312(q)/A000142(q-1))*x^(q-1)*E(x, q, 1), with q >= 1, lead to this sequence, see A163931, A274181 and A008276. - Johannes W. Meijer, Jun 17 2016
Satisfies Benford's law [Miller, 2015]. - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 12 2017
A signed version of this sequence apart from the first term (1, -4, -27, 256, 3125, -46656, ...), has the following property: for every prime p == 1 (mod 2n), (-1)^(n(n-1)/2)*n^n = A057077(n)*a(n) is always a 2n-th power residue modulo p. - Jianing Song, Sep 05 2018
From Juhani Heino, May 07 2019: (Start)
n^n is both Sum_{i=0..n} binomial(n,i)*(n-1)^(n-i)
  and Sum_{i=0..n} binomial(n,i)*(n-1)^(n-i)*i.
The former is the familiar binomial distribution of a throw of n n-sided dice, according to how many times a required side appears, 0 to n. The latter is the same but each term is multiplied by its amount. This means that if the bank pays the player 1 token for each die that has the chosen side, it is always a fair game if the player pays 1 token to enter - neither bank nor player wins on average.
Examples:
2-sided dice (2 coins): 4 = 1 + 2 + 1 = 1*0 + 2*1 + 1*2 (0 omitted from now on);
3-sided dice (3 long triangular prisms): 27 = 8 + 12 + 6 + 1 = 12*1 + 6*2 + 1*3;
4-sided dice (4 long square prisms or 4 tetrahedrons): 256 = 81 + 108 + 54 + 12 + 1 = 108*1 + 54*2 + 12*3 + 1*4;
5-sided dice (5 long pentagonal prisms): 3125 = 1024 + 1280 + 640 + 160 + 20 + 1 = 1280*1 + 640*2 + 160*3 + 20*4 + 1*5;
6-sided dice (6 cubes): 46656 = 15625 + 18750 + 9375 + 2500 + 375 + 30 + 1 = 18750*1 + 9375*2 + 2500*3 + 375*4 + 30*5 + 1*6.
(End)
For each n >= 1 there is a graph on a(n) vertices whose largest independent set has size n and whose independent set sequence is constant (specifically, for each k=1,2,...,n, the graph has n^n independent sets of size k). There is no graph of smaller order with this property (Ball et al. 2019). - David Galvin, Jun 13 2019
For n >= 2 and 1 <= k <= n, a(n)*(n + 1)/4 + a(n)*(k - 1)*(n + 1 - k)/2*n is equal to the sum over all words w = w(1)...w(n) of length n over the alphabet {1, 2, ..., n} of the following quantity: Sum_{i=1..w(k)} w(i). Inspired by Problem 12432 in the AMM (see links). - Sela Fried, Dec 10 2023
Also, dimension of the unique cohomology group of the smallest interval containing the poset of partitions decorated by Perm, i.e. the poset of pointed partitions. - Bérénice Delcroix-Oger, Jun 25 2025

			G.f. = 1 + x + 4*x^2 + 27*x^3 + 256*x^4 + 3125*x^5 + 46656*x^6 + 823543*x^7 + ...

F. Bergeron, G. Labelle and P. Leroux, Combinatorial Species and Tree-Like Structures, Cambridge, 1998, pp. 62, 63, 87.
L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 173, #39.
A. P. Prudnikov, Yu. A. Brychkov and O.I. Marichev, "Integrals and Series", Volume 1: "Elementary Functions", Chapter 4: "Finite Sums", New York, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986-1992, Eq. (4.2.2.37)
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).

Kenny Lau, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..385 [First 100 terms computed by T. D. Noe]
Taylor Ball, David Galvin, Katie Hyry, and Kyle Weingartner, Independent set and matching permutations, arXiv:1901.06579 [math.CO], 2019.
Arthur T. Benjamin and Fritz Juhnke, Another way of counting n^n, SIAM J. Discrete Math., Vol. 5, No. 3 (1992), pp. 377-379. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jun 09 2011
H. Bottomley, Illustration of initial terms.
H. J. Brothers and J. A. Knox, New closed-form approximations to the logarithmic constant e, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 20 (4), 1998, pp. 25-29. (Sequence appears as formula in Eq. (8))
C. Chauve, S. Dulucq and O. Guibert, Enumeration of some labeled trees, Proceedings of FPSAC/SFCA 2000 (Moscow), Springer, pp. 146-157.
Bérénice Delcroix-Oger and Clément Dupont, Lie-operads and operadic modules from poset cohomology, arXiv:2505.06094 [math.CO], 2025. See p. 34.
Frank Ellermann, Illustration of binomial transforms.
José María Grau and Antonio M. Oller-Marcén, On the last digit and the last non-zero digit of n^n in base b, Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society, Vol. 51, No. 5 (2014), pp. 1325-1337; arXiv preprint, arXiv:1203.4066 [math.NT], 2012.
Nick Hobson, Solution to puzzle 48: Exponential equation.
INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 36.
Steven J. Miller (ed.), Exercises to "The Theory and Applications of Benford's Law", Princeton University Press, 2015.
Mustafa Obaid et al., The number of complete exceptional sequences for a Dynkin algebra, arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7573 [math.RT], 2013.
Franck Ramaharo, A generating polynomial for the pretzel knot, arXiv:1805.10680 [math.CO], 2018.
E. Vigren (Proposer), Problem 12432, Amer. Math. Monthly 130 (2023), p. 953.
Elena L. Wang and Guoce Xin, On Ward Numbers and Increasing Schröder Trees, arXiv:2507.15654 [math.CO], 2025. See pp. 12-13.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Hadamard's Maximum Determinant Problem.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Hankel Matrix.
Dimitri Zvonkine, An algebra of power series..., arXiv:math/0403092 [math.AG], 2004.
Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences related to rooted trees
Index entries for sequences related to Benford's law

Cf. A000107, A000169, A000272, A001372, A007778, A007830, A008785-A008791, A019538, A048993, A008279, A085741, A062206, A212333.
First column of triangle A055858. Row sums of A066324.
Cf. A001923 (partial sums), A002109 (partial products), A007781 (first differences), A066588 (sum of digits).
Cf. A056665, A081721, A130293, A168658, A275549-A275558 (various classes of endofunctions).
Cf. A174824, A204688.
Cf. A055137, A083648.

a000312 n = n ^ n
a000312_list = zipWith (^) [0..] [0..]  -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 07 2012

A000312 := n->n^n: seq(A000312(n), n=0..17);

Array[ #^# &, 16] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, May 01 2008 *)
Table[Sum[StirlingS2[n, i] i! Binomial[n, i], {i, 0, n}], {n, 0, 20}] (* Geoffrey Critzer, Mar 17 2009 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 1, Boole[n == 0], n^n]; (* Michael Somos, May 24 2014 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 0, 0, n! SeriesCoefficient[ 1 / (1 + LambertW[-x]), {x, 0, n}]]; (* Michael Somos, May 24 2014 *)
a[ n_] := If[n < 0, 0, n! SeriesCoefficient[ Nest[ 1 / (1 - x / (1 - Integrate[#, x])) &, 1 + O[x], n], {x, 0, n}]]; (* Michael Somos, May 24 2014 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 0, 0, With[{m = n + 1}, m! SeriesCoefficient[ InverseSeries[ Series[ (x - 1) Log[1 - x], {x, 0, m}]], m]]]; (* Michael Somos, May 24 2014 *)

A000312[n]:=if n=0 then 1 else n^n$
makelist(A000312[n],n,0,30); /* Martin Ettl, Oct 29 2012 */

PARI
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{a(n) = n^n};
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is(n)=my(b,k=ispower(n,,&b));if(k,for(e=1,valuation(k,b), if(k/b^e == e, return(1)))); n==1 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 14 2013

{a(n) = my(A = 1 + O(x)); if( n<0, 0, for(k=1, n, A = 1 / (1 - x / (1 - intformal( A)))); n! * polcoeff( A, n))}; /* Michael Somos, May 24 2014 */

def A000312(n): return n**n # Chai Wah Wu, Nov 07 2022

a(n-1) = -Sum_{i=1..n} (-1)^i*i*n^(n-1-i)*binomial(n, i). - Yong Kong (ykong(AT)curagen.com), Dec 28 2000
E.g.f.: 1/(1 + W(-x)), W(x) = principal branch of Lambert's function.
a(n) = Sum_{k>=0} binomial(n, k)*Stirling2(n, k)*k! = Sum_{k>=0} A008279(n,k)*A048993(n,k) = Sum_{k>=0} A019538(n,k)*A007318(n,k). - Philippe Deléham, Dec 14 2003
E.g.f.: 1/(1 - T), where T = T(x) is Euler's tree function (see A000169).
a(n) = A000169(n+1)*A128433(n+1,1)/A128434(n+1,1). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 03 2007
Comment on power series with denominators a(n): Let f(x) = 1 + Sum_{n>=1} x^n/n^n. Then as x -> infinity, f(x) ~ exp(x/e)*sqrt(2*Pi*x/e). - Philippe Flajolet, Sep 11 2008
E.g.f.: 1 - exp(W(-x)) with an offset of 1 where W(x) = principal branch of Lambert's function. - Vladimir Kruchinin, Sep 15 2010
a(n) = (n-1)*a(n-1) + Sum_{i=1..n} binomial(n, i)*a(i-1)*a(n-i). - Vladimir Shevelev, Sep 30 2010
With an offset of 1, the e.g.f. is the compositional inverse ((x - 1)*log(1 - x))^(-1) = x + x^2/2! + 4*x^3/3! + 27*x^4/4! + .... - Peter Bala, Dec 09 2011
a(n) = denominator((1 + 1/n)^n) for n > 0. - Jean-François Alcover, Jan 14 2013
a(n) = A089072(n,n) for n > 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 18 2013
a(n) = (n-1)^(n-1)*(2*n) + Sum_{i=1..n-2} binomial(n, i)*(i^i*(n-i-1)^(n-i-1)), n > 1, a(0) = 1, a(1) = 1. - Vladimir Kruchinin, Nov 28 2014
log(a(n)) = lim_{k->infinity} k*(n^(1+1/k) - n). - Richard R. Forberg, Feb 04 2015
From Ilya Gutkovskiy, Jun 18 2016: (Start)
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = 1.291285997... = A073009.
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n)^2 = 1.063887103... = A086648.
Sum_{n>=1} n!/a(n) = 1.879853862... = A094082. (End)
A000169(n+1)/a(n) -> e, as n -> oo. - Daniel Suteu, Jul 23 2016
a(n) = n!*Product_{k=1..n} binomial(n, k)/Product_{k=1..n-1} binomial(n-1, k) = n!*A001142(n)/A001142(n-1). - Tony Foster III, Sep 05 2018
a(n-1) = abs(p_n(2-n)), for n > 2, the single local extremum of the n-th row polynomial of A055137 with Bagula's sign convention. - Tom Copeland, Nov 15 2019
Sum_{n>=1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = A083648. - Amiram Eldar, Jun 25 2021
Limit_{n->oo} (a(n+1)/a(n) - a(n)/a(n-1)) = e (see Brothers/Knox link). - Harlan J. Brothers, Oct 24 2021
Conjecture: a(n) = Sum_{i=0..n} A048994(n, i) * A048993(n+i, n) for n >= 0; proved by Mike Earnest, see link at A354797. - Werner Schulte, Jun 19 2022

A000169 Number of labeled rooted trees with n nodes: n^(n-1).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 9, 64, 625, 7776, 117649, 2097152, 43046721, 1000000000, 25937424601, 743008370688, 23298085122481, 793714773254144, 29192926025390625, 1152921504606846976, 48661191875666868481, 2185911559738696531968, 104127350297911241532841, 5242880000000000000000000

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

Also the number of connected transitive subtree acyclic digraphs on n vertices. - Robert Castelo, Jan 06 2001
For any given integer k, a(n) is also the number of functions from {1,2,...,n} to {1,2,...,n} such that the sum of the function values is k mod n. - Sharon Sela (sharonsela(AT)hotmail.com), Feb 16 2002
The n-th term of a geometric progression with first term 1 and common ratio n: a(1) = 1 -> 1,1,1,1,... a(2) = 2 -> 1,2,... a(3) = 9 -> 1,3,9,... a(4) = 64 -> 1,4,16,64,... - Amarnath Murthy, Mar 25 2004
All rational solutions to the equation x^y = y^x, with x < y, are given by x = A000169(n+1)/A000312(n), y = A000312(n+1)/A007778(n), where n = 1, 2, 3, ... . - Nick Hobson, Nov 30 2006
a(n+1) is also the number of partial functions on n labeled objects. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Dec 25 2006
In other words, if A is a finite set of size n-1, then a(n) is the number of binary relations on A that are also functions. Note that a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n-1} binomial(n-1,k)*(n-1)^k = n^(n-1), where binomial(n-1,k) is the number of ways to select a domain D of size k from A and (n-1)^k is the number of functions from D to A. - Dennis P. Walsh, Apr 21 2011
This is the fourth member of a set of which the other members are the symmetric group, full transformation semigroup, and symmetric inverse semigroup. For the first three, see A000142, A000312, A002720. - Peter J. Cameron, Nov 03 2024.
More generally, consider the class of sequences of the form a(n) = (n*c(1)*...*c(i))^(n-1). This sequence has c(1)=1. A052746 has a(n) = (2*n)^(n-1), A052756 has a(n) = (3*n)^(n-1), A052764 has a(n) = (4*n)^(n-1), A052789 has a(n) = (5*n)^(n-1) for n>0. These sequences have a combinatorial structure like simple grammars. - Ctibor O. Zizka, Feb 23 2008
a(n) is equal to the logarithmic transform of the sequence b(n) = n^(n-2) starting at b(2). - Kevin Hu (10thsymphony(AT)gmail.com), Aug 23 2010
Also, number of labeled connected multigraphs of order n without cycles except one loop. See link below to have a picture showing the bijection between rooted trees and multigraphs of this kind. (Note that there are no labels in the picture, but the bijection remains true if we label the nodes.) - Washington Bomfim, Sep 04 2010
a(n) is also the number of functions f:{1,2,...,n} -> {1,2,...,n} such that f(1) = 1.
For a signed version of A000169 arising from the Vandermonde determinant of (1,1/2,...,1/n), see the Mathematica section. - Clark Kimberling, Jan 02 2012
Numerator of (1+1/(n-1))^(n-1) for n>1. - Jean-François Alcover, Jan 14 2013
Right edge of triangle A075513. - Michel Marcus, May 17 2013
a(n+1) is the number of n x n binary matrices with no more than a single one in each row. Partitioning the set of such matrices by the number k of rows with a one, we obtain a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n,k)*n^k = (n+1)^n. - Dennis P. Walsh, May 27 2014
Central terms of triangle A051129: a(n) = A051129(2*n-1,n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 14 2014
a(n) is the row sum of the n-th rows of A248120 and A055302, so it enumerates the monomials in the expansion of [x(1) + x(2) + ... + x(n)]^(n-1). - Tom Copeland, Jul 17 2015
For any given integer k, a(n) is the number of sums x_1 + ... + x_m = k (mod n) such that: x_1, ..., x_m are nonnegative integers less than n, the order of the summands does not matter, and each integer appears fewer than n times as a summand. - Carlo Sanna, Oct 04 2015
a(n) is the number of words of length n-1 over an alphabet of n letters. - Joerg Arndt, Oct 07 2015
a(n) is the number of parking functions whose largest element is n and length is n. For example, a(3) = 9 because there are nine such parking functions, namely (1,2,3), (1,3,2), (2,3,1), (2,1,3), (3,1,2), (3,2,1), (1,1,3), (1,3,1), (3,1,1). - Ran Pan, Nov 15 2015
Consider the following problem: n^2 cells are arranged in a square array. A step can be defined as going from one cell to the one directly above it, to the right of it or under it. A step above cannot be followed by a step below and vice versa. Once the last column of the square array is reached, you can only take steps down. a(n) is the number of possible paths (i.e., sequences of steps) from the cell on the bottom left to the cell on the bottom right. - Nicolas Nagel, Oct 13 2016
The rationals c(n) = a(n+1)/a(n), n >= 1, appear in the proof of G. Pólya's "elementary, but not too elementary, theorem": Sum_{n>=1} (Product_{k=1..n} a_k)^(1/n) < exp(1)*Sum_{n>=1} a_n, for n >= 1, with the sequence {a_k}{k>=1} of nonnegative terms, not all equal to 0. - _Wolfdieter Lang, Mar 16 2018
Coefficients of the generating series for the preLie operadic algebra. Cf. p. 417 of the Loday et al. paper. - Tom Copeland, Jul 08 2018
a(n)/2^(n-1) is the square of the determinant of the n X n matrix M_n with elements m(j,k) = cos(Pi*j*k/n). See Zhi-Wei Sun, Petrov link. - Hugo Pfoertner, Sep 19 2021
a(n) is the determinant of the n X n matrix P_n such that, when indexed [0, n), P(0, j) = 1, P(i <= j) = i, and P(i > j) = i-n. - C.S. Elder, Mar 11 2024

			For n=3, a(3)=9 because there are exactly 9 binary relations on A={1, 2} that are functions, namely: {}, {(1,1)}, {(1,2)}, {(2,1)}, {(2,2)}, {(1,1),(2,1)}, {(1,1),(2,2)}, {(1,2),(2,1)} and {(1,2),(2,2)}. - _Dennis P. Walsh_, Apr 21 2011
G.f. = x + 2*x^2 + 9*x^3 + 64*x^4 + 625*x^5 + 7776*x^6 + 117649*x^7 + ...

Miklos Bona, editor, Handbook of Enumerative Combinatorics, CRC Press, 2015, page 169.
Jonathan L. Gross and Jay Yellen, eds., Handbook of Graph Theory, CRC Press, 2004; p. 524.
Hannes Heikinheimo, Heikki Mannila and Jouni K. Seppnen, Finding Trees from Unordered 01 Data, in Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4213/2006, Springer-Verlag. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jul 09 2009
Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics, Wiley, 2005; see p. 63.
John Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, p. 128.
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).
Richard P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics, Cambridge, Vol. 2, 1999; see page 25, Prop. 5.3.2, and p. 37, (5.52).

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..100
Paul Barry and Aoife Hennessy, Generalized Narayana Polynomials, Riordan Arrays, and Lattice Paths, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 15, 2012, #12.4.8. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Oct 08 2012
Washington Bomfim, Bijection between rooted forests and multigraphs without cycles except one loop in each connected component. [From _Washington Bomfim_, Sep 04 2010]
David Callan, A Combinatorial Derivation of the Number of Labeled Forests, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 6, 2003.
Peter J. Cameron and Philippe Cara, Independent generating sets and geometries for symmetric groups, J. Algebra, Vol. 258, no. 2 (2002), 641-650.
Robert Castelo and Arno Siebes, A characterization of moral transitive directed acyclic graph Markov models as trees, Technical Report CS-2000-44, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Utrecht.
Robert Castelo and Arno Siebes, A characterization of moral transitive acyclic directed graph Markov models as labeled trees, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 115, No. 1 (2003), pp. 235-259; alternative link.
Frédéric Chapoton, Florent Hivert and Jean-Christophe Novelli, A set-operad of formal fractions and dendriform-like sub-operads, Journal of Algebra, Vol. 465 (2016), pp. 322-355; arXiv preprint, arXiv:1307.0092 [math.CO], 2013.
Ali Chouria, Vlad-Florin Drǎgoi, Jean-Gabriel Luque, On recursively defined combinatorial classes and labelled trees, arXiv:2004.04203 [math.CO], 2020.
R. M. Corless, G. H. Gonnet, D. E. G. Hare, D. J. Jeffrey and D. E. Knuth, On the Lambert W Function, Advances in Computational Mathematics, VOl. 5 (1996), pp. 329-359; alternative link.
Nick Hobson, Solution to puzzle 48: Exponential equation.
INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 67.
Qipeng Kuang, Ondřej Kuželka, Yuanhong Wang, and Yuyi Wang, Bridging Weighted First Order Model Counting and Graph Polynomials, arXiv:2407.11877 [cs.LO], 2024. See p. 33.
Jean-Louis Loday and Bruno Vallette, Algebraic Operads, version 0.99, 2012.
G. Pólya, With, or Without, Motivation?, Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 56, No. 10 (1949), pp. 684-691. Reprinted in "A Century of Mathematics", John Ewing (ed.), Math. Assoc. of Amer., 1994, pp. 195-200 (the reference there is wrong).
Gwenaël Richomme, Characterization of infinite LSP words and endomorphisms preserving the LSP property, International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2019), pp. 171-196; arXiv preprint, arXiv:1808.02680 [cs.DM], 2018.
Marko Riedel, math.stackexchange.com, Proof of an identity relating the tree function T(z) and the second order Eulerian numbers. Feb. 28, 2021.
Marko Riedel, math.stackexchange.com, Asymptotics of tree function statistics using Pusieux series
Frank Ruskey, Information on Rooted Trees.
N. J. A. Sloane, Illustration of initial terms
Zhi-Wei Sun, Fedor Petrov, A surprising identity, discussion in MathOverflow, Jan 17 2019.
Elena L. Wang and Guoce Xin, On Ward Numbers and Increasing Schröder Trees, arXiv:2507.15654 [math.CO], 2025. See p. 12.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Graph Vertex.
Dimitri Zvonkine, An algebra of power series arising in the intersection theory of moduli spaces of curves and in the enumeration of ramified coverings of the sphere, arXiv:math/0403092 [math.AG], 2004.
Index entries for sequences related to rooted trees
Index entries for sequences related to trees
Index entries for "core" sequences

Cf. A000055, A000081, A000142, A000272, A000312, A002720, A007778, A007830, A008785-A008791, A055860, A002061, A052746, A052756, A052764, A052789, A051129, A098686, A247363, A055302, A248120, A130293, A053506-A053509, A262974.

Other classes of endofunctions: A275549-A275558.

a000169 n = n ^ (n - 1)  -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 14 2014

[n^(n-1): n in [1..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jul 17 2015

A000169 := n -> n^(n-1);
# second program:
spec := [A, {A=Prod(Z, Set(A))}, labeled]; [seq(combstruct[count](spec, size=n), n=1..20)];
# third program:
A000169 := n -> add((-1)^(n+k-1)*pochhammer(n, k)*Stirling2(n-1, k), k = 0..n-1):
seq(A000169(n), n = 1 .. 23);  # Mélika Tebni, May 07 2023

Table[n^(n - 1), {n, 1, 20}] (* Stefan Steinerberger, Apr 01 2006 *)
Range[0, 18]! CoefficientList[ Series[ -LambertW[-x], {x, 0, 18}], x] // Rest (* Robert G. Wilson v, updated by Jean-François Alcover, Oct 14 2019 *)
(* Next, a signed version A000169 from the Vandermonde determinant of (1,1/2,...,1/n) *)
f[j_] := 1/j; z = 12;
v[n_] := Product[Product[f[k] - f[j], {j, 1, k - 1}], {k, 2, n}]
Table[v[n], {n, 1, z}]
1/%  (* A203421 *)
Table[v[n]/v[n + 1], {n, 1, z - 1}]  (* A000169 signed *)
(* Clark Kimberling, Jan 02 2012 *)
a[n_]:=Det[Table[If[i==0,1,If[i<=j,i,i-n]],{i,0,n-1},{j,0,n-1}]]; Array[a,20] (* Stefano Spezia, Mar 12 2024 *)

n^(n-1) $ n=1..20 /* Zerinvary Lajos, Apr 01 2007 */

PARI
```
a(n) = n^(n-1)
```

def a(n): return n**(n-1)
print([a(n) for n in range(1, 21)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Sep 19 2021

from sympy import Matrix
def P(n): return [[ (i-n if i > j else i) + (i == 0) for j in range(n) ] for i in range(n)]
print(*(Matrix(P(n)).det() for n in range(1, 21)), sep=', ') # C.S. Elder, Mar 12 2024

The e.g.f. T(x) = Sum_{n>=1} n^(n-1)*x^n/n! satisfies T(x) = x*exp(T(x)), so T(x) is the functional inverse (series reversion) of x*exp(-x).
Also T(x) = -LambertW(-x) where W(x) is the principal branch of Lambert's function.
T(x) is sometimes called Euler's tree function.
a(n) = A000312(n-1)*A128434(n,1)/A128433(n,1). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 03 2007
E.g.f.: LambertW(x)=x*G(0); G(k) = 1 - x*((2*k+2)^(2*k))/(((2*k+1)^(2*k)) - x*((2*k+1)^(2*k))*((2*k+3)^(2*k+1))/(x*((2*k+3)^(2*k+1)) - ((2*k+2)^(2*k+1))/G(k+1))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Dec 30 2011
a(n) = Sum_{i=1..n} binomial(n-1,i-1)*i^(i-2)*(n-i)^(n-i). - Dmitry Kruchinin, Oct 28 2013
Limit_{n->oo} a(n)/A000312(n-1) = e. - Daniel Suteu, Jul 23 2016
From Amiram Eldar, Nov 20 2020: (Start)
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = A098686.
Sum_{n>=1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = A262974. (End)
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n-1} (-1)^(n+k-1)*Pochhammer(n, k)*Stirling2(n-1, k). - Mélika Tebni, May 07 2023
In terms of Eulerian numbers A340556(n,k) of the second order Sum_{m>=1} m^(m+n) z^m/m! = 1/(1-T(z))^(2n+1) * Sum_{k=0..n} A2(n,k) T(z)^k. - Marko Riedel, Jan 10 2024

A000272 Number of trees on n labeled nodes: n^(n-2) with a(0)=1.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 3, 16, 125, 1296, 16807, 262144, 4782969, 100000000, 2357947691, 61917364224, 1792160394037, 56693912375296, 1946195068359375, 72057594037927936, 2862423051509815793, 121439531096594251776, 5480386857784802185939, 262144000000000000000000, 13248496640331026125580781

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Number of spanning trees in complete graph K_n on n labeled nodes.
Robert Castelo, Jan 06 2001, observes that n^(n-2) is also the number of transitive subtree acyclic digraphs on n-1 vertices.
a(n) is also the number of ways of expressing an n-cycle in the symmetric group S_n as a product of n-1 transpositions, see example. - Dan Fux (dan.fux(AT)OpenGaia.com or danfux(AT)OpenGaia.com), Apr 12 2001
Also counts parking functions, critical configurations of the chip firing game, allowable pairs sorted by a priority queue [Hamel].
The parking functions of length n can be described as all permutations of all words [d(1),d(2), ..., d(n)] where 1 <= d(k) <= k; see example. There are (n+1)^(n-1) = a(n+1) parking functions of length n. - Joerg Arndt, Jul 15 2014
a(n+1) is the number of endofunctions with no cycles of length > 1; number of forests of rooted labeled trees on n vertices. - Mitch Harris, Jul 06 2006
a(n) is also the number of nilpotent partial bijections (of an n-element set). Equivalently, the number of nilpotents in the partial symmetric semigroup, P sub n. - Abdullahi Umar, Aug 25 2008
a(n) is also the number of edge-labeled rooted trees on n nodes. - Nikos Apostolakis, Nov 30 2008
a(n+1) is the number of length n sequences on an alphabet of {1,2,...,n} that have a partial sum equal to n. For example a(4)=16 because there are 16 length 3 sequences on {1,2,3} in which the terms (beginning with the first term and proceeding sequentially) sum to 3 at some point in the sequence. {1, 1, 1}, {1, 2, 1}, {1, 2, 2}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 1, 1}, {2, 1, 2}, {2, 1, 3}, {3, 1, 1}, {3, 1, 2}, {3, 1, 3}, {3, 2, 1}, {3, 2, 2}, {3, 2, 3}, {3, 3, 1}, {3, 3, 2}, {3, 3, 3}. - Geoffrey Critzer, Jul 20 2009
a(n) is the number of acyclic functions from {1,2,...,n-1} to {1,2,...,n}. An acyclic function f satisfies the following property: for any x in the domain, there exists a positive integer k such that (f^k)(x) is not in the domain. Note that f^k denotes the k-fold composition of f with itself, e.g., (f^2)(x)=f(f(x)). - Dennis P. Walsh, Mar 02 2011
a(n) is the absolute value of the discriminant of the polynomial x^{n-1}+...+x+1. More precisely, a(n) = (-1)^{(n-1)(n-2)/2} times the discriminant. - Zach Teitler, Jan 28 2014
For n > 2, a(n+2) is the number of nodes in the canonical automaton for the affine Weyl group of type A_n. - Tom Edgar, May 12 2016
The tree formula a(n) = n^(n-2) is due to Cayley (see the first comment). - Jonathan Sondow, Jan 11 2018
a(n) is the number of topologically distinct lines of play for the game Planted Brussels Sprouts on n vertices. See Ji and Propp link. - Caleb Ji, May 11 2018
a(n+1) is also the number of bases of R^n, that can be made from the n(n+1)/2 vectors of the form [0 ... 0 1 ... 1 0 ... 0]^T, where the initial or final zeros are optional, but at least one 1 has to be included. - Nicolas Nagel, Jul 31 2018
Cooper et al. show that every connected k-chromatic graph contains at least k^(k-2) spanning trees. - Michel Marcus, May 14 2020

			a(7)=matdet([196, 175, 140, 98, 56, 21; 175, 160, 130, 92, 53, 20; 140, 130, 110, 80, 47, 18; 98, 92, 80, 62, 38, 15; 56, 53, 47, 38, 26, 11; 21, 20, 18, 15, 11, 6])=16807
a(3)=3 since there are 3 acyclic functions f:[2]->[3], namely, {(1,2),(2,3)}, {(1,3),(2,1)}, and {(1,3),(2,3)}.
From _Joerg Arndt_ and Greg Stevenson, Jul 11 2011: (Start)
The following products of 3 transpositions lead to a 4-cycle in S_4:
  (1,2)*(1,3)*(1,4);
  (1,2)*(1,4)*(3,4);
  (1,2)*(3,4)*(1,3);
  (1,3)*(1,4)*(2,3);
  (1,3)*(2,3)*(1,4);
  (1,4)*(2,3)*(2,4);
  (1,4)*(2,4)*(3,4);
  (1,4)*(3,4)*(2,3);
  (2,3)*(1,2)*(1,4);
  (2,3)*(1,4)*(2,4);
  (2,3)*(2,4)*(1,2);
  (2,4)*(1,2)*(3,4);
  (2,4)*(3,4)*(1,2);
  (3,4)*(1,2)*(1,3);
  (3,4)*(1,3)*(2,3);
  (3,4)*(2,3)*(1,2).  (End)
The 16 parking functions of length 3 are 111, 112, 121, 211, 113, 131, 311, 221, 212, 122, 123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321. - _Joerg Arndt_, Jul 15 2014
G.f. = 1 + x + x^2 + 3*x^3 + 16*x^4 + 125*x^5 + 1296*x^6 + 16807*x^7 + ...

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Index entries for sequences related to trees
Index entries for "core" sequences

Cf. A000169, A000254, A000312, A007778, A007830, A008785-A008791, A052750, A081048, A083483, A097170, A239910.
a(n) = A033842(n-1, 0) (first column of triangle).
a(n) = A058127(n-1, n) (right edge of triangle).
Cf. A000272 (labeled trees), A036361 (labeled 2-trees), A036362 (labeled 3-trees), A036506 (labeled 4-trees), A000055 (unlabeled trees), A054581 (unlabeled 2-trees).
Column m=1 of A105599. - Alois P. Heinz, Apr 10 2014

a000272 0 = 1; a000272 1 = 1
a000272 n = n ^ (n - 2)  -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 07 2013

[ n^(n-2) : n in [1..10]]; // Sergei Haller (sergei(AT)sergei-haller.de), Dec 21 2006

A000272 := n -> ifelse(n=0, 1, n^(n-2)): seq(A000272(n), n = 0..20); # Peter Luschny, Jun 12 2022

<< DiscreteMath`Combinatorica` Table[NumberOfSpanningTrees[CompleteGraph[n]], {n, 1, 20}] (* Artur Jasinski, Dec 06 2007 *)
Join[{1},Table[n^(n-2),{n,20}]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 28 2012 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 1, Boole[n == 0], n^(n - 2)]; (* Michael Somos, May 25 2014 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 0, 0, n! SeriesCoefficient[ 1 - LambertW[-x] - LambertW[-x]^2 / 2, {x, 0, n}]]; (* Michael Somos, May 25 2014 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 1, Boole[n == 0], With[ {m = n - 1}, m! SeriesCoefficient[ Exp[ -LambertW[-x]], {x, 0, m}]]]; (* Michael Somos, May 25 2014 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 2, Boole[n >= 0], With[ {m = n - 1}, m! SeriesCoefficient[ InverseSeries[ Series[ Log[1 + x] / (1 + x), {x, 0, m}]], m]]]; (* Michael Somos, May 25 2014 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 1, Boole[n == 0], With[ {m = n - 1}, m! SeriesCoefficient[ Nest[ 1 + Integrate[ #^2 / (1 - x #), x] &, 1 + O[x], m], {x, 0, m}]]]; (* Michael Somos, May 25 2014 *)

A000272[n]:=if n=0 then 1 else n^(n-2)$
makelist(A000272[n],n,0,30); /* Martin Ettl, Oct 29 2012 */

{a(n) = if( n<1, n==0, n^(n-2))}; /* Michael Somos, Feb 16 2002 */

{a(n) = my(A); if( n<1, n==0, n--; A = 1 + O(x); for(k=1, n, A = 1 + intformal( A^2 / (1 - x * A))); n! * polcoeff( A, n))}; /* Michael Somos, May 25 2014 */

/* GP Function for Determinant of Hermitian (square symmetric) matrix for univariate polynomial of degree n by Gerry Martens: */
Hn(n=2)= {local(H=matrix(n-1,n-1),i,j); for(i=1,n-1, for(j=1,i, H[i,j]=(n*i^3-3*n*(n+1)*i^2/2+n*(3*n+1)*i/2+(n^4-n^2)/2)/6-(i^2-(2*n+1)*i+n*(n+1))*(j-1)*j/4; H[j,i]=H[i,j]; ); ); print("a(",n,")=matdet(",H,")"); print("Determinant H =",matdet(H)); return(matdet(H)); } { print(Hn(7)); } /* Gerry Martens, May 04 2007 */

def A000272(n): return 1 if n <= 1 else n**(n-2) # Chai Wah Wu, Feb 03 2022

E.g.f.: 1 + T - (1/2)*T^2; where T=T(x) is Euler's tree function (see A000169, also A001858). - Len Smiley, Nov 19 2001
Number of labeled k-trees on n nodes is binomial(n, k) * (k*(n-k)+1)^(n-k-2).
E.g.f. for b(n)=a(n+2): ((W(-x)/x)^2)/(1+W(-x)), where W is Lambert's function (principal branch). [Equals d/dx (W(-x)/(-x)). - Wolfdieter Lang, Oct 25 2022]
Determinant of the symmetric matrix H generated for a polynomial of degree n by: for(i=1,n-1, for(j=1,i, H[i,j]=(n*i^3-3*n*(n+1)*i^2/2+n*(3*n+1)*i/2+(n^4-n^2)/2)/6-(i^2-(2*n+1)*i+n*(n+1))*(j-1)*j/4; H[j,i]=H[i,j]; ); );. - Gerry Martens, May 04 2007
a(n+1) = Sum_{i=1..n} i * n^(n-1-i) * binomial(n, i). - Yong Kong (ykong(AT)curagen.com), Dec 28 2000
For n >= 1, a(n+1) = Sum_{i=1..n} n^(n-i)*binomial(n-1,i-1). - Geoffrey Critzer, Jul 20 2009
E.g.f. for b(n)=a(n+1): exp(-W(-x)), where W is Lambert's function satisfying W(x)*exp(W(x))=x. Proof is contained in link "Notes on acyclic functions..." - Dennis P. Walsh, Mar 02 2011
From Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Sep 18 2012: (Start)
E.g.f.: 1 + x + x^2/(U(0) - x) where U(k) = x*(k+1)*(k+2)^k + (k+1)^k*(k+2) - x*(k+2)^2*(k+3)*((k+1)*(k+3))^k/U(k+1); (continued fraction).
G.f.: 1 + x + x^2/(U(0)-x) where U(k) = x*(k+1)*(k+2)^k + (k+1)^k - x*(k+2)*(k+3)*((k+1)*(k+3))^k/E(k+1); (continued fraction). (End)
Related to A000254 by Sum_{n >= 1} a(n+1)*x^n/n! = series reversion( 1/(1 + x)*log(1 + x) ) = series reversion(x - 3*x^2/2! + 11*x^3/3! - 50*x^4/4! + ...). Cf. A052750. - Peter Bala, Jun 15 2016
For n >= 3 and 2 <= k <= n-1, the number of trees on n vertices with exactly k leaves is binomial(n,k)*S(n-2,n-k)(n-k)! where S(a,b) is the Stirling number of the second kind. Therefore a(n) = Sum_{k=2..n-1} binomial(n,k)*S(n-2,n-k)(n-k)! for n >= 3. - Jonathan Noel, May 05 2017

A007778 a(n) = n^(n+1).

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 8, 81, 1024, 15625, 279936, 5764801, 134217728, 3486784401, 100000000000, 3138428376721, 106993205379072, 3937376385699289, 155568095557812224, 6568408355712890625, 295147905179352825856, 14063084452067724991009, 708235345355337676357632

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N. J. A. Sloane

Number of edges of the complete bipartite graph of order n+n^n, K_n,n^n. - Roberto E. Martinez II, Jan 07 2002
All rational solutions to the equation x^y = y^x, with x < y, are given by x = A000169(n+1)/A000312(n), y = A000312(n+1)/A007778(n), where n >= 1. - Nick Hobson, Nov 30 2006
a(n) is also the number of ways of writing an n-cycle as the product of n+1 transpositions. - Nikos Apostolakis, Nov 22 2008
a(n) is the total number of elements whose preimage is the empty set summed over all partial functions from [n] into [n]. - Geoffrey Critzer, Jan 12 2022

Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics, Wiley, 2005; see p. 67.

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
Nick Hobson, Exponential equation.
Yidong Sun and Jujuan Zhuang, lambda-factorials of n, arXiv:1007.1339 [math.CO], 2010. - _Peter Luschny_, Jul 09 2010

Cf. A000169, A000272, A000312, A007830, A008785, A008786, A008787, A008788, A008789, A008790, A008791, A135608.
Essentially the same as A065440.
Cf. A061250, A143857. [From Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 23 2010]

[n^(n+1):n in [0..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jan 03 2012

seq( n^(n+1), n=0..20); # G. C. Greubel, Mar 05 2020

Table[n^(n+1), {n,0,20}] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Oct 01 2008 *)

A007778[n]:=n^(n+1)$
makelist(A007778[n],n,0,30); /* Martin Ettl, Oct 29 2012 */

vector(21, n, my(m=n-1); m^(m+1)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Mar 05 2020

[n^(n+1) for n in (0..20)] # G. C. Greubel, Mar 05 2020

E.g.f.: -W(-x)/(1 + W(-x))^3, W(x) Lambert's function (principal branch).
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n,k)*A000166(k+1)*(n+1)^(n-k). - Peter Luschny, Jul 09 2010
See A008517 and A134991 for similar e.g.f.s. and A048993. - Tom Copeland, Oct 03 2011
E.g.f.: d/dx {x/(T(x)*(1-T(x)))}, where T(x) = Sum_{n >= 1} n^(n-1)*x^n/n! is the tree function of A000169. - Peter Bala, Aug 05 2012
a(n) = n*A000312(n). - R. J. Mathar, Jan 12 2017
Sum_{n>=2} 1/a(n) = A135608. - Amiram Eldar, Nov 17 2020

A127670 Discriminants of Chebyshev S-polynomials A049310.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 4, 32, 400, 6912, 153664, 4194304, 136048896, 5120000000, 219503494144, 10567230160896, 564668382613504, 33174037869887488, 2125764000000000000, 147573952589676412928, 11034809241396899282944, 884295678882933431599104, 75613185918270483380568064

Offset: 1

Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 23 2007

a(n-1) is the number of fixed n-cell polycubes that are proper in n-1 dimensions (Barequet et al., 2010).
From Rigoberto Florez, Sep 02 2018: (Start)
a(n-1) is the discriminant of the Morgan-Voyce Fibonacci-type polynomial B(n).
Morgan-Voyce Fibonacci-type polynomials are defined as B(0) = 0, B(1) = 1 and B(n) = (x+2)*B(n-1) - B(n-2) for n > 1.
The absolute value of the discriminant of Fibonacci polynomial F(n) is a(n-1).
Fibonacci polynomials are defined as F(0) = 0, F(1) = 1 and F(n) = x*F(n-1) + F(n-2) for n > 1. (End)
The first 6 values are the dimensions of the polynomial ring in 3n variables xi, yi, zi for 1 <= i <= n modulo the ideal generated by x1^a y1^b z1^c + ... + xn^a yn^b zn^c for 0 < a+b+c <= n (see Fact 2.8.1 in Haiman's paper). - Mike Zabrocki, Dec 31 2019

			n=3: The zeros are [sqrt(2),0,-sqrt(2)]. The Vn(xn[1],...,xn[n]) matrix is [[1,1,1],[sqrt(2),0,-sqrt(2)],[2,0,2]]. The squared determinant is 32 = a(3). - _Wolfdieter Lang_, Aug 07 2011

Gill Barequet, Solomon W. Golomb, and David A. Klarner, Polyominoes. (This is a revision, by G. Barequet, of the chapter of the same title originally written by the late D. A. Klarner for the first edition, and revised by the late S. W. Golomb for the second edition.) Preprint, 2016, http://www.csun.edu/~ctoth/Handbook/chap14.pdf.
G. Barequet and M. Shalah, Automatic Proofs for Formulae Enumerating Proper Polycubes, 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG'15). Editors: Lars Arge and János Pach; pp. 19-22, 2015.
Theodore J. Rivlin, Chebyshev polynomials: from approximation theory to algebra and number theory, 2. ed., Wiley, New York, 1990; p. 219 for T and U polynomials.

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..200
Andrei Asinowski, Gill Barequet, Ronnie Barequet, and Gunter Rote, Proper n-Cell Polycubes in n - 3 Dimensions, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 15 (2012), #12.8.4.
Mohammad K. Azarian, On the Hyperfactorial Function, Hypertriangular Function, and the Discriminants of Certain Polynomials, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2007, pp. 251-257. Mathematical Reviews, MR2312537. Zentralblatt MATH, Zbl 1133.11012. See Th. 1. [From _N. J. A. Sloane_, Oct 16 2010]
R. Barequet, G. Barequet, and G. Rote, Formulae and growth rates of high-dimensional polycubes, Combinatorica 30 (2010), pp. 257-275.
Rigoberto Flórez, Robinson Higuita, and Antara Mukherjee, Star of David and other patterns in the Hosoya-like polynomials triangles, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 21 (2018), Article 18.4.6.
Rigoberto Flórez, Robinson Higuita, and Antara Mukherjee, Characterization of the strong divisibility property for generalized Fibonacci polynomials, Integers, 18 (2018), Paper No. A14.
Rigoberto Flórez, Robinson Higuita, and Alexander Ramírez, The resultant, the discriminant, and the derivative of generalized Fibonacci polynomials, arXiv:1808.01264 [math.NT], 2018.
Rigoberto Flórez, N. McAnally, and A. Mukherjees, Identities for the generalized Fibonacci polynomial, Integers, 18B (2018), Paper No. A2.
M. Haiman, Conjectures on the quotient ring by diagonal invariants, preprint, 1993.
M. Haiman, Conjectures on the quotient ring by diagonal invariants, J. Algebraic Combin. 3 (1994), no. 1, 17--76.
O. Khorunzhiy, Enumeration of tree-type diagrams assembled from oriented chains of edges, arXiv:2207.00766 [math.CO], 2022.
Andrew Snowden, Measures for the colored circle, arXiv:2302.08699 [math.CO], 2023.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Discriminant
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Morgan-Voyce Polynomials
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Fibonacci Polynomial

Cf. A007701 (T-polynomials), A086804 (U-polynomials), A171860 and A191092 (fixed n-cell polycubes proper in n-2 and n-3 dimensions, resp.).
Cf. A243953, A006645, A001629, A001871, A006645, A007701, A045618, A045925, A093967, A193678, A317404, A317405, A317408, A317451, A318184, A318197.
A317403 is essentially the same sequence.
Diagonal 1 of A195739.

[((n+1)^n/(n+1)^2)*2^n: n in [1..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 23 2014

Table[((n + 1)^n)/(n + 1)^2 2^n, {n, 1, 30}] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 23 2014 *)

a(n) = ((n+1)^(n-2))*2^n, n >= 1.
a(n) = (Det(Vn(xn[1],...,xn[n])))^2 with the determinant of the Vandermonde matrix Vn with elements (Vn)i,j:= xn[i]^j, i=1..n, j=0..n-1 and xn[i]:=2*cos(Pi*i/(n+1)), i=1..n, are the zeros of S(n,x):=U(n,x/2).
a(n) = ((-1)^(n*(n-1)/2))*Product_{j=1..n} ((d/dx)S(n,x)|_{x=xn[j]}), n >= 1, with the zeros xn[j], j=1..n, given above.
a(n) = A007830(n-2)*A000079(n), n >= 2. - Omar E. Pol, Aug 27 2011
E.g.f.: -LambertW(-2*x)*(2+LambertW(-2*x))/(4*x). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jun 22 2014

Slightly edited by Gill Barequet, May 24 2011

A008785 a(n) = (n+4)^n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 5, 36, 343, 4096, 59049, 1000000, 19487171, 429981696, 10604499373, 289254654976, 8649755859375, 281474976710656, 9904578032905937, 374813367582081024, 15181127029874798299, 655360000000000000000, 30041942495081691894741, 1457498964228107529355264

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200

Cf. A000169, A000272, A000312, A007778, A007830, A008786, A008787, A008788, A008789, A008790, A008791.

List([0..20], n-> (n+4)^n); # G. C. Greubel, Sep 11 2019

[(n+4)^n: n in [0..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 11 2013

Table[(n+4)^n,{n,0,20}] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Dec 26 2010 *)

vector(20, n, (n+3)^(n-1)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Nov 09 2017

[(n+4)^n for n in (0..20)] # G. C. Greubel, Sep 11 2019

E.g.f.(x) for b(n) = n^(n-4) = a(n-4): T - (7/8)*T^2 + (11/36)*T^3 - (1/24)*T^4, where T = T(x) is Euler's tree function (see A000169). - Len Smiley, Nov 17 2001
E.g.f.: LambertW(-x)^4/(x^4*(1+LambertW(-x))). - Vladeta Jovovic, Nov 07 2003
E.g.f.: (1/3)*d/dx(LambertW(-x)/(-x))^3. - Wolfdieter Lang, Oct 25 2022

A008788 a(n) = n^(n+2).

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 16, 243, 4096, 78125, 1679616, 40353607, 1073741824, 31381059609, 1000000000000, 34522712143931, 1283918464548864, 51185893014090757, 2177953337809371136, 98526125335693359375, 4722366482869645213696

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

			G.f. = x + 16*x^2 + 243*x^3 + 4096*x^4 + 78125*x^5 + 1679616*x^6 + ...

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
Milan Janjic, Enumerative Formulas for Some Functions on Finite Sets

Cf. A000169, A000272, A000312, A007778, A007830, A008785, A008786, A008787, A008789, A008790, A008791.

List([0..20], n-> n^(n+2)); # G. C. Greubel, Sep 11 2019

[n^(n+2): n in [0..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 11 2013

Table[n^(n+2), {n,0,20}] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Dec 26 2010 *)
CoefficientList[Series[LambertW[-x] * (2*LambertW[-x]-1) / (1 + LambertW[-x])^5, {x, 0, 20}], x] * Range[0, 20]! (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 20 2014 *)

vector(20, n, (n-1)^(n+1)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Nov 14 2017

[n^(n+2) for n in (0..20)] # G. C. Greubel, Sep 11 2019

E.g.f.(x): T*(1 + 2*T)*(1-T)^(-5); where T=T(x) is Euler's tree function (see A000169). - Len Smiley, Nov 17 2001
See A008517 and A134991 for similar e.g.f.s. and A048993. - Tom Copeland, Oct 03 2011
E.g.f.: d^2/dx^2 {x^2/(T(x)^2*(1-T(x)))}, where T(x) = Sum_{n>=1} n^(n-1)*x^n/n! is the tree function of A000169. - Peter Bala, Aug 05 2012

A008791 a(n) = n^(n+5).

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 128, 6561, 262144, 9765625, 362797056, 13841287201, 549755813888, 22876792454961, 1000000000000000, 45949729863572161, 2218611106740436992, 112455406951957393129, 5976303958948914397184, 332525673007965087890625

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
Milan Janjic, Enumerative Formulas for Some Functions on Finite Sets

Cf. A000169, A000272, A000312, A007778, A007830, A008785, A008786, A008787, A008788, A008789, A008790.

List([0..20], n-> n^(n+5)); # G. C. Greubel, Sep 11 2019

[n^(n+5): n in [0..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 11 2013

a:=n->mul( n, k=-4..n): seq(a(n), n=0..20); # Zerinvary Lajos, Jan 26 2008

Table[n^(n+5),{n,0,20}] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Dec 26 2010 *)

vector(20, n, (n-1)^(n+4)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Sep 11 2019

[n^(n+5) for n in (0..20)] # G. C. Greubel, Sep 11 2019

E.g.f.(x): T*(1 + 52*T + 328*T^2 + 444*T^3 + 120*T^4)*(1-T)^(-11); where T=T(x) is Euler's tree function (see A000169). - Len Smiley, Nov 17 2001
See A008517 and A134991 for similar e.g.f.s and diagonals of A048993. - Tom Copeland, Oct 03 2011
E.g.f.: d^5/dx^5 {x^5/(T(x)^5*(1-T(x)))}, where T(x) = Sum_{n>=1} n^(n-1)*x^n/n! is the tree function of A000169. - Peter Bala, Aug 05 2012

A007334 Number of spanning trees in the graph K_{n}/e, which results from contracting an edge e in the complete graph K_{n} on n vertices (for n>=2).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 8, 50, 432, 4802, 65536, 1062882, 20000000, 428717762, 10319560704, 275716983698, 8099130339328, 259492675781250, 9007199254740992, 336755653118801858, 13493281232954916864, 576882827135242335362, 26214400000000000000000

Offset: 2

N. J. A. Sloane

nonn

The old name (referring to the Chen-Goyal article) was "[Number of] essential complementary partitions of [an] n-set."
This sequence was obtained using the deletion-contraction recursions satisfied by the number of spanning trees for graphs. It is readily seen that the number of spanning trees in K_{n}-e (the complete graph K_{n} with an edge e deleted) is (n-2)*(n^{n-3}). Since the number of spanning trees in K_{n} is n^{n-2}, we see that (n-2)*(n^{n-3})+f(n)=n^{n-2} by the deletion-contraction recursion. Hence it follows that f(n)=2*n^{n-3}. - N. Eaton, W. Kook and L. Thoma (andrewk(AT)math.uri.edu), Jan 17 2004
With offset 0, the number of acyclic functions from {1,...,n} to {1,...,n+2}. See link below. - Dennis P. Walsh, Nov 27 2011
With offset 0, a(n) is the number of forests of rooted labeled trees on n nodes in which some (possibly all or none) of the trees have been specially designated. a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} A061356(n,k)*2^k. E.g.f. is exp(T(x))^2 where T(x) is the e.g.f for A000169. The expected number of trees in each forest approaches 3 as n gets large. Cf. A225497. - Geoffrey Critzer, May 10 2013

			a(3)=2 because K_{3}/e consists of two vertices and two parallel edges, where each edge is a spanning tree.

J. Oxley, Matroid Theory, Oxford University Press, 1992.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Alin Bostan, Frédéric Chyzak, Bérénice Delcroix-Oger, Guillaume Laplante-Anfossi, Vincent Pilaud, and Kurt Stoeckl, Diagonals of permutahedra and associahedra, Sém. Lotharingien Comb., 37th Formal Power Series Alg. Comb. (FPSAC 2025). See p. 7.
W.-K. Chen and I. C. Goyal, Tables of essential complementary partitions, IEEE Trans. Circuit Theory, 18 (1971), 562-563.
W.-K. Chen and I. C. Goyal, Tables of essential complementary partitions, IEEE Trans. Circuit Theory, 18 (1971), 562-563. (Annotated scanned copy)
Spencer Daugherty, Pamela E. Harris, Ian Klein, and Matt McClinton, Metered Parking Functions, arXiv:2406.12941 [math.CO], 2024. See pp. 19, 22.
N. Eaton, W. Kook and L. Thoma, Monotonicity for complete graphs, preprint, 2003.
Jean-Baptiste Priez and Aladin Virmaux, Non-commutative Frobenius characteristic of generalized parking functions: Application to enumeration, arXiv:1411.4161 [math.CO], 2014-2015.
Dennis Walsh, Notes on acyclic functions

The sequence is A058127(n, n-2) for n >= 2. - Peter Luschny, Apr 22 2009

Cf. A007830.

nn = 17; tx = Sum[n^(n - 1) x^n/n!, {n, 1, nn}];
Range[0, nn]! CoefficientList[Series[Exp[ tx]^2, {x, 0, nn}], x]  (* Geoffrey Critzer, May 10 2013 *)

{a(n)=if(n==2, 1, 1-polcoeff(sum(k=2, n-1, a(k)*x^k/(1+(k-1)*x+x*O(x^n))^(k-1)), n))} /* Paul D. Hanna, Jan 17 2013 */

a(n) = 2*n^{n-3} (n>=2).
E.g.f.: (-W(-x)/x)*exp(-W(-x)). - Paul Barry, Nov 19 2010 [With offset 0, and W = LambertW. Equals (W(-x)/(-x))^2 = (exp(-W(-x)))^2 (see a comment above). - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 11 2022]
G.f.: Sum_{n>=1} a(n+1) * x^n / (1 + n*x)^n  =  x/(1-x). - Paul D. Hanna, Jan 17 2013

a(6) corrected and more terms from Sean A. Irvine, Dec 19 2017

After correction, this became identical (except for the offset) with A089104, contributed by N. Eaton, W. Kook and L. Thoma (andrewk(AT)math.uri.edu), Jan 17 2004. The two entries have been merged using the older A-number. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 19 2017

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A000312 a(n) = n^n; number of labeled mappings from n points to themselves (endofunctions).

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A000169 Number of labeled rooted trees with n nodes: n^(n-1).

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A000272 Number of trees on n labeled nodes: n^(n-2) with a(0)=1.

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A007778 a(n) = n^(n+1).

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A127670 Discriminants of Chebyshev S-polynomials A049310.

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