# Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences! http://oeis.org/ Search: id:a357815 Showing 1-1 of 1 %I A357815 #7 Nov 27 2022 11:20:19 %S A357815 0,1,2,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,6,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,12,13,14,14,15,16,16,17,18,18, %T A357815 19,20,20,21,22,22,23,24,24,25,26,26,27,28,28,29,30,30,31,32,32,33,34, %U A357815 34,35,36,36,37,38,38,39,40 %N A357815 Smallest maximum degree over all maximal 2-degenerate graphs with diameter 2 and n vertices. %C A357815 A maximal 2-degenerate graph can be constructed from a 2-clique by iteratively adding a new 2-leaf (vertex of degree 2) adjacent to two existing vertices. %C A357815 Examples of sharpness for all n are given in the Bickle 2021 paper. %C A357815 The smallest maximum degree over all 2-trees with diameter 2 and n vertices is ceiling(2/3*n). %H A357815 Allan Bickle, k-Paths of k-Trees, Springer PROMS 388 (2020) 287-291. %H A357815 Allan Bickle, Wiener indices of maximal k-degenerate graphs, International Journal of Mathematical Combinatorics 2 (2021) 68-79. %H A357815 Allan Bickle and Zhongyuan Che, Wiener indices of maximal k-degenerate graphs, arXiv:1908.09202 [math.CO], 2019. %F A357815 a(n) = ceiling(2/3*(n-1)) for n>15. %e A357815 For n=5, the graph formed by subdividing one edge of a 4-clique is maximal 2-degenerate with diameter 2, and has maximum degree 3. Thus a(5) = 3. %Y A357815 Cf. A004523. %K A357815 nonn %O A357815 1,3 %A A357815 _Allan Bickle_, Oct 13 2022 # Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement: http://oeis.org/LICENSE