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A000703 Chromatic number (or Heawood number) of nonorientable surface with n crosscaps.
(Formerly M3265 N1318)
2
4, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 15, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 17, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 24, 24, 24, 24 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

REFERENCES

K. Appel and W. Haken, Every planar map is four colorable. I. Discharging. Illinois J. Math. 21 (1977), no. 3, 429-490.

G. A. Dirac, Map-color theorems, Canad. J. Math., 4 (1952), 480ff.

J. L. Gross and T. W. Tucker, Topological Graph Theory, Wiley, 1987; see Table 5.2 p. 221.

J. L. Gross and J. Yellen, eds., Handbook of Graph Theory, CRC Press, 2004; p. 368 and 631.

G. Ringel and J. W. T. Youngs, Solution of the Heawood map-coloring problem, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 60 (1968), 438-445.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..1000

G. Ringel & J. W. T. Youngs, Solution Of The Heawood Map-Coloring Problem

FORMULA

a(n) = floor((7+sqrt(1+24*n))/2).

MATHEMATICA

Floor[(7+Sqrt[1+24*Range[0, 80]])/2] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Feb 03 2012 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000934 (the orientable case).

Sequence in context: A201564 A200303 A198882 * A011275 A205684 A006185

Adjacent sequences:  A000700 A000701 A000702 * A000704 A000705 A000706

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,changed

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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