A005174 Number of trees of subsets of an n-set. (Formerly M4738)

0, 0, 10, 124, 890, 5060, 25410, 118524, 527530, 2276020, 9613010, 40001324, 164698170, 672961380, 2734531810, 11066546524, 44652164810, 179768037140, 722553165810, 2900661482124, 11634003919450, 46630112719300, 186802788139010, 748058256616124

Offset

1,3

References

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

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..24.

F. R. McMorris and T. Zaslavsky, The number of cladistic characters, Math. Biosciences, 54 (1981), 3-10.

F. R. McMorris and T. Zaslavsky, The number of cladistic characters, Math. Biosciences, 54 (1981), 3-10. [Annotated scanned copy]

Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.

Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992.

Index entries for sequences related to trees

Formula

The terms a(1)-a(18) are given by a(n) = (8/3)*(4^n - 4) - 9*3^n + 11*2^n + 5. - John W. Layman, Jul 20 1999

Formula of Layman matches the proven formula in McMorris and Zaslavsky. - Sean A. Irvine, Apr 12 2016

E.g.f.: (1/3)*(-17*exp(x) + 66*exp(2*x) - 81*exp(3*x) + 32*exp(4*x)). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Apr 12 2016

Maple

A005174:=2*z**2*(5+12*z)/(z-1)/(3*z-1)/(2*z-1)/(4*z-1); # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A296190 A263552 A259839 * A034668 A215854 A123358

Adjacent sequences: A005171 A005172 A005173 * A005175 A005176 A005177

Keyword

nonn

Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Status

approved