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A100526 Number of local binary search trees (i.e. labeled binary trees such that every left child has a smaller label than its parent and every right child has a larger label than its parent) with n vertices such that the root has only one child. 0
1, 2, 6, 28, 180, 1476, 14728, 173216, 2346480, 35981200, 616111056, 11652662880, 241259095168, 5427319729664, 131818482923520, 3437894427590656, 95825936705566464, 2842834581982211328, 89435890422890433280 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

C. Chauve, S. Dulucq and A. Rechnitzer, Enumerating alternating trees, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 94 (2001), 142-151.

A. Postnikov, Intransitive Trees, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 79 (1997), 360-366.

FORMULA

a(n)=(1/2^(n-1))*sum(k^(n-1)*binomial(n, k), k=1..n). a(n)=n*A007889(n-1).

EXAMPLE

a(3)=6 because we have 3L2L1, 2L1R3, 3L1R2, 1R2R3, 1R3L2, 2R3L1 (Li means left child labeled i, RI means right child labeled i).

MAPLE

seq((1/2^(n-1))*sum(k^(n-1)*binomial(n, k), k=1..n), n=1..22);

CROSSREFS

Cf. A007889.

Sequence in context: A136631 A002435 A104018 * A200560 A196555 A084262

Adjacent sequences:  A100523 A100524 A100525 * A100527 A100528 A100529

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Nov 24 2004

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