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A002991
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Number of n-node trees with a forbidden limb of length 5.
(Formerly M0725)
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3
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1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 21, 43, 97, 215, 503, 1187, 2876, 7033, 17510, 43961, 111664, 285809, 737632, 1915993, 5008652, 13163785, 34774873, 92282214, 245930746, 657931603, 1766481135, 4758553683, 12858286083, 34844908142, 94681272368
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OFFSET
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0,5
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COMMENTS
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A tree with a forbidden limb of length k is a tree where the path from any leaf inward hits a branching node or another leaf within k steps. - Christian G. Bower, Dec 15 1999
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REFERENCES
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A. J. Schwenk, Almost all trees are cospectral, pp. 275-307 of F. Harary, editor, New Directions in the Theory of Graphs. Academic Press, NY, 1973.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
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LINKS
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FORMULA
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a(n) ~ c * d^n / n^(5/2), where d = 2.9447916575019743775137795109303..., c = 0.521642401804532770865780146005... . - Vaclav Kotesovec, Aug 25 2014
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MAPLE
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with(numtheory):
g:= proc(n) g(n):= `if`(n=0, 1, add(add(d*(g(d-1)-
`if`(d=5, 1, 0)), d=divisors(j))*g(n-j), j=1..n)/n)
end:
a:= n-> `if`(n=0, 1, g(n-1)+(`if`(irem(n, 2, 'r')=0,
g(r-1), 0)-add(g(i-1)*g(n-i-1), i=1..n-1))/2):
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MATHEMATICA
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g[n_] := g[n] = If[n == 0, 1, Sum[Sum[d*(g[d-1]-If[d == 5, 1, 0]), {d, Divisors[j] }]*g[n-j], {j, 1, n}]/n]; a[n_] := If[n == 0, 1, g[n-1] + (If[Mod[n, 2 ] == 0, g[Quotient[n, 2]-1], 0] - Sum[g[i-1]*g[n-i-1], {i, 1, n-1}])/2]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 40}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 26 2015, after Alois P. Heinz *)
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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nonn
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AUTHOR
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EXTENSIONS
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STATUS
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approved
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