[seqfan] Re: Spanning trees in the cube of a cycle (A005288)

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 08:03:34 CET 2020


1.  I will ask Simon Plouffe if he can remember anything about this

2.  I checked my old files, but did not find anything on an initial search

3.  If all else fails, I suggest we change the definition of A005822 to the
generating function
(1-x^2)*(x^4+x^3-x^2+x+1) / (x^8-4*x^6-x^4-4*x^2+1)
and then Brendan you could submit your version that matches the words of
the present definition as a new sequence.

But let's wait to hear from Simon.

Simon, Can you throw any light on A005822 (aka M1243)?



Best regards
Neil

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On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:58 PM Brendan McKay <Brendan.McKay at anu.edu.au>
wrote:

> Yes, sorry, A005822.   Edited below. Brendan.
>
> On 25/1/20 1:26 pm, Sean A. Irvine wrote:
> > You mean A005822 ...
> >
> > On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 14:31, Brendan McKay <Brendan.McKay at anu.edu.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> It has been noticed on Mathoverflow that something is amiss with A005288
> >> "Number of spanning trees in third power of cycle".
> >>
> >> A5822(n) = 1, 1, 2, 4, 11, 16, 49, 72, 214, 319, 947, 1408, 4187,
> >>             6223, 18502, 27504
> >> offset: 1,3
> >>
> >> The simplest proof that there's a problem is that there is no graph on
> >> 3 vertices with 2 spanning trees.
> >>
> >> I take "third power of cycle" to mean a graph whose edges join vertices
> >> arranged
> >> in a cycle if they are at most 3 apart.  Up to 7 vertices it is a
> complete
> >> graph,
> >> so the number of spanning trees is n^(n-2).  Starting at 7 vertices it
> is a
> >> regular graph of degree 6.
> >>
> >> By direct computation using the matrix tree theorem, I get actual values
> >> T(n) = 1, 1, 3, 16, 125, 1296, 16807, 82944, 412164, 2035220, 9864899,
> >>       47579136, 227902597, 1084320412, 5134860060, 24207040512,
> >>       113664879137, 531895993344
> >>
> >> I'm sure there is some relationship between A5288(n) and T(n) since
> >> for n >= 7 and as far as I computed T(n) is a multiple of A5288(n).
> Here
> >> is the ratio T(n)/A5822(n) starting at n=7:  1152, 1926, 6380, 10417,
> >> 33792,
> >> 54431, 174244, 277530, 880128, 1390073, 4375872
> >>
> >> I conjecture  that T(n) = f(n)*A5822(n) for some f(n) that has been
> lost,
> >> and that this relation is only intended to hold for n>=7, or maybe n>=8.
> >>
> >> The cited works of Plouffe probably contain the explanation, but my
> >> French is not up to it.
> >>
> >> Brendan.
> >>
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