A bijective proof of an identity for noncrossing graphs

  • Authors:
  • Pavel Podbrdský

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, Charles University, Malostranské námestí, 25, 118 00 Prague Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We give a bijective proof for the identity an+2 = 8bn, where an is the number of noncrossing simple graphs with n (possibly isolated) vertices and bn is the number of noncrossing graphs without isolated vertices and with n (possibly multiple) edges.