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Wedderburn-Etherington number (Definition)

The $ n$th Wedderburn-Etherington number counts how many weakly binary trees can be constructed such that each graph vertex (not counting the root vertex) is adjacent to no more than three other such vertices, for a given number $ n$ of nodes. The first few Wedderburn-Etherington numbers are 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 23, 46, 98, 207, 451, 983, etc. listed in A001190 of Sloane's OEIS. Michael Somos gives the following recurrence relations:

$\displaystyle a_{2n} = \frac{1}{2} a_n a_{n + 1} + \sum_{i = 1}^n a_i a_{2n - i}$

and

$\displaystyle a_{2n - 1} = \sum_{i = 0}^{n - 1} a_{i + 1} a_{2n - i}$

with $ a_1 = a_2 = 1$ in both relations.



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Other names:  Wedderburn Etherington number, Etherington-Wedderburn number
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AMS MSC05A15 (Combinatorics :: Enumerative combinatorics :: Exact enumeration problems, generating functions)

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