[seqfan] Re: A002955: rooted trimmed trees

[Neil Sloane]

> P.P.S.: should "free" be added to the names of
  sequences that are about free trees (like A000055)?

JJ, just to respond to your final question: my convention was always that
trees were unlabeled unless specified otherwise, and unrooted unless it
said rooted.

So by convention, "trees" meant unlabeled and unrooted.

Of course adding a comment to make the definition clearer does no harm.

Best regards
Neil

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On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Joerg Arndt <arndt at jjj.de> wrote:

> I observe that this sequence (seems to) count
> "Unordered rooted trees without "x x" in the level
>  sequence for the pre-order walk."
>
> Here are those (8) trees for n = 6:
>
>    1:  [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 ]
> O--o--o--o--o--o
>
>    2:  [ 0 1 2 3 4 3 ]
> O--o--o--o--o
>       .--o
>
>    3:  [ 0 1 2 3 4 2 ]
> O--o--o--o--o
>    .--o
>
>    4:  [ 0 1 2 3 4 1 ]
> O--o--o--o--o
> .--o
>
>    5:  [ 0 1 2 3 2 3 ]
> O--o--o--o
>    .--o--o
>
>    6:  [ 0 1 2 3 2 1 ]
> O--o--o--o
>    .--o
> .--o
>
>    7:  [ 0 1 2 3 1 2 ]
> O--o--o--o
> .--o--o
>
>    8:  [ 0 1 2 1 2 1 ]
> O--o--o
> .--o--o
> .--o
>
>
> Now I realize that I do _not_ understand the comments.
> My understanding of "limb" is
> "the way (subtree) from a leaf towards the root until
>  the first branch point (which can be the root) is reached."
> Example: The tree
>   [ 0 1 2 3 4 2 1 2 1 ]
> O--o--o--o--o
>    .--o
> .--o--o
> .--o
> has limbs of lengths 4, 1, 2, and 1.
>
> Now from what I read in A002955 it should count
> trees without limbs of length 2 (? or length >= 2 ?).
> The trees I show above are(?) different, they avoid subtrees
>  *--o
>  .--o
>
> Can somebody clarify?
>
>
> Best regards,   jj
>
> P.S.: should "unordered" be added to the name?
> P.P.S.: should "free" be added to the names of
>   sequences that are about free trees (like A000055)?
>
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