A258487 Number of tangled chains of length k=4.
1, 1, 14, 2140, 1017219, 1110178602, 2320017306125, 8278981347401059, 46556715158334549170, 388779284837787599307987, 4605471565794120802036550000, 74633554055057890778698344509705, 1606481673354648219373898238155693682, 44821655543075499856527523557216582931002
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References
- R. Page, Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation, and coevolution, The University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Links
- S. Billey, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20
- Sara Billey, Matjaž Konvalinka, and Frederick A. Matsen IV, On the enumeration of tanglegrams and tangled chains, arXiv:1507.04976 [math.CO], 2015.
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Formula
t(n) = Sum_{b=(b(1),...,b(t))} Product_{i=2..t} (2(b(i)+...+b(t))-1)^4)/z(b) where the sum is over all binary partitions of n and z(b) is the size of the stabilizer of a permutation of cycle type b under conjugation.
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