OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Tangled chains are ordered lists of k rooted binary trees with n leaves and a matching between each leaf from the i-th tree with a unique leaf from the (i+1)-st tree up to isomorphism on the binary trees. This sequence fixes k=5, and n = 1,2,3,...
REFERENCES
R. Page, Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation, and coevolution, The University of Chicago Press, 2002.
LINKS
Sara Billey, Matjaž Konvalinka, and Frederick A. Matsen IV, On the enumeration of tanglegrams and tangled chains, arXiv:1507.04976 [math.CO], 2015.
FORMULA
t(n) = Sum_{b=(b(1),...,b(t))} Product_{i=2..t} (2(b(i)+...+b(t))-1)^5)/z(b) where the sum is over all binary partitions of n and z(b) is the size of the stabilizer of a permutation of cycle type b under conjugation.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved