OFFSET
0,6
COMMENTS
The only way to cover more than 7 vertices is with edges all having a single common vertex. For the special cases of n = 6 or n = 7, there are also covers without a common vertex. - Andrew Howroyd, Aug 15 2019
LINKS
Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
FORMULA
a(2*n) = 0 for n > 3; a(2*n-1) = A001147(n) for n > 4. - Andrew Howroyd, Aug 15 2019
EXAMPLE
The a(5) = 15 hypergraphs:
{{1,4,5},{2,3,5}}
{{1,4,5},{2,3,4}}
{{1,3,5},{2,4,5}}
{{1,3,5},{2,3,4}}
{{1,3,4},{2,4,5}}
{{1,3,4},{2,3,5}}
{{1,2,5},{3,4,5}}
{{1,2,5},{2,3,4}}
{{1,2,5},{1,3,4}}
{{1,2,4},{3,4,5}}
{{1,2,4},{2,3,5}}
{{1,2,4},{1,3,5}}
{{1,2,3},{3,4,5}}
{{1,2,3},{2,4,5}}
{{1,2,3},{1,4,5}}
The following are non-isomorphic representatives of the 5 unlabeled 3-uniform hypergraphs spanning 7 vertices in which every two edges have exactly one vertex in common, and their multiplicities in the labeled case, which add up to a(7) = 1815.
105 X {{1,2,7},{3,4,7},{5,6,7}}
840 X {{1,4,5},{2,4,6},{3,4,7},{5,6,7}}
630 X {{1,4,5},{2,3,5},{2,4,6},{3,4,7},{5,6,7}}
210 X {{1,3,6},{1,4,5},{2,3,5},{2,4,6},{3,4,7},{5,6,7}}
30 X {{1,2,7},{1,3,6},{1,4,5},{2,3,5},{2,4,6},{3,4,7},{5,6,7}}
From Andrew Howroyd, Aug 15 2019: (Start)
The following are non-isomorphic representatives of the 2 unlabeled 3-uniform hypergraphs spanning 6 vertices in which every two edges have exactly one vertex in common, and their multiplicities in the labeled case, which add up to a(6) = 150.
120 X {{1,2,3},{1,4,5},{3,5,6}}
30 X {{1,2,3},{1,4,5},{3,5,6},{2,4,6}}
(End)
MATHEMATICA
stableSets[u_, Q_]:=If[Length[u]===0, {{}}, With[{w=First[u]}, Join[stableSets[DeleteCases[u, w], Q], Prepend[#, w]&/@stableSets[DeleteCases[u, r_/; r===w||Q[r, w]||Q[w, r]], Q]]]];
Table[Length[Select[stableSets[Subsets[Range[n], {3}], Length[Intersection[#1, #2]]!=1&], Union@@#==Range[n]&]], {n, 10}]
PROG
(PARI) a(n)={if(n%2, if(n<=3, n==3, if(n==7, 1815, n!/(2^(n\2)*(n\2)!))), if(n==6, 150, n==0))} \\ Andrew Howroyd, Aug 15 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Gus Wiseman, Jan 11 2019
EXTENSIONS
Terms a(13) and beyond from Andrew Howroyd, Aug 15 2019
STATUS
approved