[seqfan] Re: easy? graph question

[Neil Sloane]

I've updated A085680 (including a hopefully clearer definition).

Note that the distance being used is not Hamming distance, of course.
Best regards
Neil

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Benoît Jubin <benoit.jubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Neil,
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> I had a little trouble understanding your definition, in particular
> the phrase "maximal number of nodes that are separated by at least
> three edges".
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> As a mathematician not familiar with codes, I would propose : "a(n) is
> the maximal cardinality of a set of such n-tuples whose members are at
> distance at least three from each other" (or something similar, in
> better English!).
>
> Best regards,
> Benoît
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> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Seq Fans,  Someone just asked me to explain A085680, which is:
>>
>>
>> Size of largest code of length n and constant weight 2 that can
>> correct a single adjacent transposition.  The data line gives only
>> these values, with offset 2:
>>
>> 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32, 36, 40,
>> 44, 48, 52, 57, 62
>>
>> I just added an explanation, as follows:
>>
>> Look at the set of n-choose-2 binary vectors of length n with exactly
>> two 1's and n-2 0's in each vector.
>>
>> If we can get a vector v from a vector u by swapping 2 adjacent
>> coordinates, say that u and v are adjacent.
>>
>> a(n) is the maximal number of nodes in the resulting graph that are
>> separated by at least three edges.
>>
>> For n=4 the graph is
>>
>> .................1001
>>
>> ................../....\
>>
>> 1100--1010......0101--0011
>>
>> ..................\..../
>>
>> ..................0110
>>
>> so a(4) = 2 (use 1100 and 0011 as the code, or 1100 and 0101).
>>
>> More terms, anyone?
>>
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