A244456 Number of unlabeled rooted trees with n nodes such that the minimal outdegree of inner nodes equals 2.

1, 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 15, 28, 56, 110, 220, 436, 878, 1762, 3560, 7205, 14650, 29838, 60991, 124938, 256628, 528238, 1089834, 2252860, 4666304, 9682422, 20125777, 41900433, 87369029, 182441944, 381499040, 798782945, 1674575394, 3514733683, 7385298837, 15534856067

Offset: 3

Author

Joerg Arndt and Alois P. Heinz, Jun 29 2014

Keywords

• nonn

Examples

			a(5) = 1:
      o
     / \
    o   o
   / \
  o   o
		

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 3..900

Crossrefs

Column k=2 of A244454.

Cf. A244531, A246403.

Programs

Maple

b:= proc(n, i, t, k) option remember; `if`(n=0, `if`(t in [0, k],
      1, 0), `if`(i<1 or t>n, 0, add(binomial(b((i-1)$2, k$2)+j-1, j)*
      b(n-i*j, i-1, max(0,t-j), k), j=0..n/i)))
    end:
a:= n-> b(n-1$2, 2$2) -b(n-1$2, 3$2):
seq(a(n), n=3..40);

Mathematica

b[n_, i_, t_, k_] := b[n, i, t, k] = If[n == 0, If[t == 0 || t == k, 1, 0], If[i < 1, 0, Sum[Binomial[b[i - 1, i - 1, k, k] + j - 1, j]*b[n - i*j, i - 1, Max[0, t - j], k], {j, 0, n/i}]]]; a[n_] := b[n - 1, n - 1, 2, 2] - b[n - 1, n - 1, 3, 3] // FullSimplify; Table[a[n], {n, 3, 40}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 06 2015, after Maple *)

Formula

a(n) ~ c * d^n / n^(3/2), where d = A246403 = 2.18946198566085056388702757711..., c = 0.4213018528699249210965028... (constants are same as for A001679). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jul 02 2014