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A333348
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Matching number of the tree of n vertices with the largest number of maximum matchings.
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0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 12, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 16, 16, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 18, 18, 18, 18, 19, 19, 19, 20, 20, 20, 20, 21, 21, 21, 22, 22, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 24, 24, 24
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OFFSET
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0,8
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COMMENTS
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Heuberger and Wagner consider how many different maximum matchings a tree of n vertices may have. They determine the unique tree (free tree) of n vertices with the largest number of maximum matchings, or at n=6 and n=34 the two trees with equal largest number. a(n) is the matching number of the unique tree, and of both n=34 trees since they have the same matching number. For n=6, a(6)=1 is the star-6 which is their T_{6,1}. The other n=6 is their T_{6,2} and its matching number would be a(6)=2 instead.
The trees n!=2 have all pairs of leaves an even distance apart (the type of free tree counted by A304867). Vertices an even distance to a leaf are Heuberger and Wagner's type A, and vertices an odd distance to a leaf are type B. Per their definitions (and for any "even distance leaves" tree in fact), all type B vertices must be matched in a maximum matching and consequently the matching number is the number of type B vertices. 2n/7 appears in the formula below since each "C" part contains 7 vertices of which 2 are type B; then there are certain fixed additional B vertices according to n mod 7.
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LINKS
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Kevin Ryde, vpar examples/most-maximum-matchings.gp creating, counting, and recurrences, in PARI/GP.
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FORMULA
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a(2)=a(6)=1, a(13)=3, a(20)=5, and otherwise a(n) = floor((2n+2)/7).
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A333347 (number of maximum matchings).
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KEYWORD
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nonn
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STATUS
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approved
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