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A000066
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Smallest number of vertices in trivalent graph with girth (shortest cycle) = n.
(Formerly M1013 N0380)
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17
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OFFSET
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3,1
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COMMENTS
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Also called the order of the (3,n) cage graph.
Recently (unpublished) McKay and Myrvold proved that the minimal graph on 112 vertices is unique. - May 20 2003
If there are n vertices and e edges, then 3n=2e, so n is always even.
Current lower bounds for a(13)..a(32) are 202, 258, 384, 512, 768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 3072, 4096, 6144, 8192, 12288, 16384, 24576, 32768, 49152, 65536, 98304, 131072. - from Table 3 of the Dynamic cage survey via Jason Kimberley, Dec 31 2012
Current upper bounds for a(13)..a(32) are 272, 384, 620, 960, 2176, 2560, 4324, 5376, 16028, 16206, 49326, 49608, 108906, 109200, 285852, 415104, 1141484, 1143408, 3649794, 3650304. - from Table 3 of the Dynamic cage survey via Jason Kimberley, Dec 31 2012
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REFERENCES
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A. T. Balaban, Trivalent graphs of girth nine and eleven and relationships among cages, Rev. Roum. Math. Pures et Appl. 18 (1973) 1033-1043.
Brendan McKay, personal communication.
H. Sachs, On regular graphs with given girth, pp. 91-97 of M. Fiedler, editor, Theory of Graphs and Its Applications: Proceedings of the Symposium, Smolenice, Czechoslovakia, 1963. Academic Press, NY, 1964.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
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LINKS
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Andries E. Brouwer, Cages
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FORMULA
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For all g > 2, a(g) >= A027383(g-1), with equality if and only if g = 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 12. - Jason Kimberley, Dec 21 2012 and Jan 01 2013
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CROSSREFS
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Orders of cages: A054760 (n,k), this sequence (3,n), A037233 (4,n), A218553 (5,n), A218554 (6,n), A218555 (7,n), A191595 (n,5).
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KEYWORD
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nonn,hard,more,nice
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AUTHOR
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EXTENSIONS
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Balaban proved 112 as an upper bound for a(11). The proof that it is also a lower bound is in the paper by Brendan McKay, W. Myrvold and J. Nadon.
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STATUS
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approved
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