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A005638 Number of unlabeled trivalent (or cubic) graphs with 2n nodes.
(Formerly M1656)
19
1, 0, 1, 2, 6, 21, 94, 540, 4207, 42110, 516344, 7373924, 118573592, 2103205738, 40634185402, 847871397424, 18987149095005, 454032821688754, 11544329612485981, 310964453836198311, 8845303172513781271 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,4

COMMENTS

Because the triangle A051031 is symmetric, a(n) is also the number of (2n-4)-regular graphs on 2n vertices. [From Jason Kimberley (Jason.Kimberley(AT)newcastle.edu.au), Sep 22 2009]

REFERENCES

Brinkmann, G. "Fast Generation of Cubic Graphs." J. Graph Th. 23, 139-149, 1996.

R. C. Read and R. J. Wilson, An Atlas of Graphs, Oxford, 1998.

Robinson, R. W.; Wormald, N. C.; Numbers of cubic graphs. J. Graph Theory 7 (1983), no. 4, 463-467.

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

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

FORMULA

A = Euler transformation(A002851) = A002851 + A165653.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000421.

3-regular simple graphs: A002851 (connected), A165653 (disconnected), this sequence (not necessarily connected).

Regular graphs A005176 (any degree), A051031 (triangular array), chosen degrees: A000012 (k=0), A059841 (k=1), A008483 (k=2), this sequence (k=3), A033301 (k=4), A165626 (k=5), A165627 (k=6), A165628 (k=7), A180260 (k=8). [From Jason Kimberley, Nov 07 2009]

Sequence in context: A115089 A183950 A001928 * A008988 A061232 A020091

Adjacent sequences:  A005635 A005636 A005637 * A005639 A005640 A005641

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from R. C. Read (rcread(AT)math.uwaterloo.ca).

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