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Rooted plane binary trees satisfy $B (x) = 1 + x B (x)^{2}$

Statement

Let $B (x)$ be the generating function of rooted plane binary trees, specified by

$B = E + Z \times B^{2} .$

Then $B (x)$ is the unique formal power series satisfying

$B (x) = 1 + x B (x)^{2} .$

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The recursive specification $B = E + Z \times B^{2}$ .

[L1]

Disjoint union and Cartesian product translate to addition and multiplication of ordinary generating functions (Disjoint union and Cartesian product translate to addition and multiplication of ordinary generating functions).

[L2]

An order-raising recursive specification has a unique solution (An order-raising recursive specification has a unique solution).

[L3]

Formal order is non-Archimedean under sums and satisfies ${ord}_{x} (f g) \geq {ord}_{x} (f) + {ord}_{x} (g)$ over a commutative ring (Formal order is non-Archimedean under sums and additive under products over a domain).

Proof

technique · direct

1.1L3algebra

The associated operator is $F (Y) = 1 + x Y^{2}$ . For any $U, V$ , one has $F (U) - F (V) = x (U + V) (U - V)$ , so [L3] gives ${ord}_{x} (F (U) - F (V)) \geq {ord}_{x} (U - V) + 1$ . Thus the specification is order-raising.

2.1step 1.1L2

By [L2], the specification has a unique formal power series solution $B (x)$ .

3.1step 2.1L1∎

The neutral class contributes $1$ , the atomic class contributes $x$ , and the ordered pair of left and right subtrees contributes $B (x)^{2}$ by [L1]. Hence the specification translates to $B (x) = 1 + x B (x)^{2}$ .

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Sources

Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics (standard reference, not scraped)
Stephen Melczer, An Invitation to Enumeration, Chapter 5: Combinatorial Constructions (standard reference, not scraped)

Rooted plane binary trees satisfy B(x)=1+xB(x)2B(x)=1+xB(x)2