A086200 Number of unrooted steric quartic trees with 2n (unlabeled) nodes and possessing a bicentroid; number of 2n-carbon alkanes C(2n)H(4n +2) with a bicentroid when stereoisomers are regarded as different.

1, 3, 15, 66, 406, 2775, 19900, 152076, 1206681, 9841266, 82336528, 702993756, 6105180250, 53822344278, 480681790786, 4342078862605, 39621836138886, 364831810979041, 3386667673687950, 31669036266203766

Offset

1,2

Comments

The degree of each node is <= 4.

A bicentroid is an edge which connects two subtrees of exactly m/2 nodes, where m is the number of nodes in the tree. If a bicentroid exists it is unique. Clearly trees with an odd number of nodes cannot have a bicentroid.

Regarding stereoisomers as different means that only the alternating group A_4 acts at each node, not the full symmetric group S_4. See A010373 for the analogous sequence when stereoisomers are not counted as different.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..20.

Index entries for sequences related to rooted trees

Index entries for sequences related to trees

Formula

G.f.: replace each term x in g.f. for A000625 by x(x+1)/2. Interpretation: ways to pick 2 specific radicals (order not important) from all n carbon radicals is number of 2n carbon bicentered alkanes (join the two radicals with an edge).

Crossrefs

Cf. A000598, A000602, A010732, A010733, A000625, A000628, A086194.

For even n A000628(n) = A086194(n) + a(n/2), for odd n A000628(n) = A086194(n), since every tree has either a centroid or a bicentroid but not both.

Sequence in context: A001447 A106732 A052981 * A325586 A304276 A217451

Adjacent sequences: A086197 A086198 A086199 * A086201 A086202 A086203

Keyword

nonn

Author

Steve Strand (snstrand(AT)comcast.net), Aug 28 2003

Status

approved