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Valency enumeration of rooted plane trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

C. L. Mallows
Affiliation:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Murray Hill, New Jersey
K. W. Wachter
Affiliation:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Murray Hill, New Jersey
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Abstract

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We obtain the enumerator by node-valencies of planted plane trees, whose square gives the enumerator of rooted plane trees. We also study the enumeration by number of nodes and black-node-valencies of bichromatic rooted plane trees, encountering a remarkably simple inversion formula. Finally, we remark that these bichromatic trees are in 1–1 correspondence with solutions to the weak lead ballot problem.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1972

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