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A090371
Number of unrooted planar 2-constellations with n digons. Also number of n-edge unrooted planar Eulerian maps with bicolored faces.
10
1, 3, 6, 20, 60, 291, 1310, 6975, 37746, 215602, 1262874, 7611156, 46814132, 293447817, 1868710728, 12068905911, 78913940784, 521709872895, 3483289035186, 23464708686960, 159346213738020, 1090073011199451, 7507285094455566, 52021636161126702
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
a(n) is also the number of unrooted planar hypermaps with n darts up to orientation-preserving homeomorphism (darts are semi-edges in the particular case of ordinary maps). - Valery A. Liskovets, Apr 13 2006
LINKS
M. Bousquet-Mélou and G. Schaeffer, Enumeration of planar constellations, Adv. in Appl. Math. v.24 (2000), 337-368.
A. Mednykh and R. Nedela, Counting unrooted hypermaps on closed orientable surface, 18th Intern. Conf. Formal Power Series & Algebr. Comb., Jun 19, 2006, San Diego, California (USA).
A. Mednykh and R. Nedela, Enumeration of unrooted hypermaps of a given genus, Discr. Math., 310 (2010), 518-526. [From N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 19 2009]
A. Mednykh and R. Nedela, Recent progress in enumeration of hypermaps, J. Math. Sci., New York 226, No. 5, 635-654 (2017) and Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI 446, 139-164 (2016), table 2.
Timothy R. Walsh, Space-Efficient Generation of Nonisomorphic Maps and Hypermaps, J. Int. Seq. 18 (2015) # 15.4.3.
EXAMPLE
The 3 Eulerian maps with 2 edges are the digon and two figure eight graphs ("8") in which both loops are colored, resp., black or white.
MAPLE
A090371 := proc(n)
local s, d;
if n=0 then
1 ;
else
s := -2^n*binomial(2*n, n);
for d in numtheory[divisors](n) do
s := s+ numtheory[phi](n/d)*2^d*binomial(2*d, d)
od;
3/(2*n)*(2^n*binomial(2*n, n)/((n+1)*(n+2))+s/2);
fi;
end proc:
MATHEMATICA
h0[n_] := 3*2^(n-1)*Binomial[2*n, n]/((n+1)*(n+2)); a[n_] := (h0[n] + DivisorSum[n, If[#>1, EulerPhi[#]*Binomial[n/#+2, 2]*h0[n/#], 0]&])/n; Array[a, 30] (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 06 2015, adapted from PARI *)
PROG
(PARI) h0(n) = 3*2^(n-1)*binomial(2*n, n)/((n+1)*(n+2));
a(n) = (h0(n) + sumdiv(n, d, (d>1)*eulerphi(d)*binomial(n/d+2, 2)*h0(n/d)))/n; \\ Michel Marcus, Dec 11 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Valery A. Liskovets, Dec 01 2003
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Michel Marcus, Dec 11 2014
STATUS
approved