OFFSET
3,3
COMMENTS
A simple planar map is a planar map without loops or parallel edges.
Equivalently, a(n) is the number of embeddings on the sphere of 2-connected planar graphs with n edges. - Andrew Howroyd, Mar 27 2021
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Timothy R. Walsh, Generating nonisomorphic maps without storing them, SIAM J. Algebraic Discrete Methods 4 (1983), no. 2, 161-178.
FORMULA
a(n) = Sum_{k=3..n} A342060(k, n+2-k). - Andrew Howroyd, Mar 27 2021
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
a(11) and a(12) from Sean A. Irvine, Apr 03 2017
a(13)-a(17) from Andrew Howroyd, Mar 27 2021
STATUS
approved