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A005517 Smallest label f(T) given to a rooted tree T with n nodes in Matula-Goebel labeling.
(Formerly M0706)
7
1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 15, 25, 45, 75, 125, 225, 375, 625, 1125, 1875, 3125, 5625, 9375, 15625, 28125, 46875, 78125, 140625, 234375, 390625, 703125, 1171875, 1953125, 3515625, 5859375, 9765625, 17578125, 29296875, 48828125 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

Let p(1)=2, ... denote the primes. The label f(T) for a rooted tree T is 1 if T has 1 node, otherwise f(T) = Product p(f(T_i)) where the T_i are the subtrees obtained by deleting the root and the edges adjacent to it.

REFERENCES

F. Goebel, On a 1-1-correspondence between rooted trees and natural numbers, J. Combin. Theory, B 29 (1980), 141-143.

I. Gutman and A. Ivic, On Matula numbers, Discrete Math., 150, 1996, 131-142.

D. W. Matula, A natural rooted tree enumeration by prime factorization, SIAM Review, 10, 1968, 273.

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

LINKS

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

Index entries for sequences related to rooted trees

Index entries for sequences related to trees

FORMULA

a(n+3) = 5*a(n) for n >= 3 under plausible assumptions about growth of prime numbers. - David W. Wilson, Jul 05, 2001.

A091233(n) = (A005518(n)-a(n))+1. - Antti Karttunen (Antti.Karttunen(AT)iki.fi), May 24 2004

MAPLE

A005517:=(-1-2*z-3*z**2+z**4)/(-1+5*z**3); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A061773. See A005518 for the largest value of f(T).

Sequence in context: A003476 A017989 A017990 * A034063 A034073 A114623

Adjacent sequences:  A005514 A005515 A005516 * A005518 A005519 A005520

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

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

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