[seqfan] Re: Help wanted on A005646 connection to A000055
franktaw at netscape.net
franktaw at netscape.net
Tue Dec 29 12:21:35 CET 2009
Looking at your web site, it appears that the size 6 line graph is
mislabeled. It should be f-d-b-a-c-e, not f-e-d-c-b-a.
It feels like I can almost prove this, but the final result eludes me.
It will suffice to prove that there must always (for R = N-1 > 0) be
one classification that distinguishes a single point. The result then
follows by induction - remove the point, find the graph for the
remainder by induction, and there will be one point that is not
distinguished from the removed point; join the edge to that point.
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I'm also interested in a question that is much less approachable with
the development path you are following. That is what happens at the
"bottom" of each column -- just before it becomes zeros. Does this
have a limit? If so, it would be 1,1,3,...., reading up the columns.
You would have to go to at least N=14 to get a clue to whether anything
of this sort is happening (presumably the cases N=15 and N=16 can
readily be shown to be 1).
One can also ask about the column sums: 1,1,2,10,???
Franklin T. Adams-Watters
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Munafo <mrob27 at gmail.com>
Andrew Weimholt and I have been working on A005646. Franklin T.
Adams-Watters suggested the importance of the triangle:
N=1 1
N=2 0 1
N=3 0 0 1
N=4 0 0 1 2
N=5 0 0 0 3 3
N=6 0 0 0 3 17 6
N=7 0 0 0 1 36 74 11
N=8 0 0 0 1 60 573 358 23
N=9 0 0 0 0 56 2802 7311 1631 47
N=10 0 0 0 0 50 10087 107938 83170 7563 106
>I've copied in row 10 from a later post - FTAW.
The main diagonal suggests a relation to sequence A000055, unlabaled
unrooted trees.
I am starting to convince myself such a connection is real; detals and
full examples through N=6 are at
http://mrob.com/pub/math/seq-a005646.html#trees
A graph edge corresponds to a binary partition, and each node is one of
the types in the classification. Each edge connects two subgraphs, and
the corresponding partition divides the nodes in the same way the graph
gets divided if that edge is removed.
Can anyone help me prove or disprove this?
--
Robert Munafo -- mrob.com
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