A010372 Number of unrooted quartic trees with n (unlabeled) nodes and possessing a centroid; number of n-carbon alkanes C(n)H(2n +2) with a centroid ignoring stereoisomers.

1, 0, 1, 1, 3, 2, 9, 8, 35, 39, 159, 202, 802, 1078, 4347, 6354, 24894, 38157, 148284, 237541, 910726, 1511717, 5731580, 9816092, 36797588, 64658432, 240215803, 431987953, 1590507121, 2917928218, 10660307791, 19910436898

Offset: 1

Author

Paul Zimmermann, N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

• nonn
• easy
• nice

Comments

The degree of each node is <= 4.

A centroid is a node with less than n/2 nodes in each of the incident subtrees, where n is the number of nodes in the tree. If a centroid exists it is unique.

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 A086194 for the analogous sequence with stereoisomers counted.

References

• F. Harary, Graph Theory, p. 36, for definition of centroid.

Links

• A. Cayley, Über die analytischen Figuren, welche in der Mathematik Bäume genannt werden und ihre Anwendung auf die Theorie chemischer Verbindungen, Chem. Ber. 8 (1875), 1056-1059. (Annotated scanned copy)
• 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.
• Index entries for sequences related to trees

Crossrefs

Cf. A010373, A000022, A086194, A000598, A000602.

A000602(n) = a(n) + A010373(n/2) for n even, A000602(n) = a(n) for n odd.

Programs

Maple

with(combstruct): Alkyl := proc(n) combstruct[count]([ U,{U=Prod(Z,Set(U,card<=3))},unlabeled ],size=n) end:
centeredHC := proc(n) option remember; local f,k,z,f2,f3,f4; f := 1 + add(Alkyl(k)*z^k, k=0..iquo(n-1,2));
f2 := series(subs(z=z^2,f), z, n+1); f3 := series(subs(z=z^3,f), z, n+1); f4 := series(subs(z=z^4,f), z, n+1);
f := series(f*f3/3+f4/4+f2^2/8+f2*f^2/4+f^4/24, z, n+1); coeff(f, z, n-1) end: seq(centeredHC(n), n=1..32);

Extensions

Description revised by Steve Strand (snstrand(AT)comcast.net), Aug 20 2003