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A note on limbless trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

K.L. McAvaney
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong, Victoria.
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Abstract

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It is shown by enumeration that for any two non-isomorphic limbs with the same number of points the number of trees with p points that contain one limb equals the number of trees with p points that contain the other.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1974

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