We count the number of vertices with given outdegree in plane trees and k-ary trees, and get the following results: the total number of vertices of outdegree i among all… Click to show full abstract
We count the number of vertices with given outdegree in plane trees and k-ary trees, and get the following results: the total number of vertices of outdegree i among all plane trees with n edges is $${2n-i-1 \atopwithdelims ()n-1}$$2n-i-1n-1; the total number of vertices of degree i among all plane trees with n edges is twice this number; and the total number of vertices of outdegree i among all k-ary trees with n edges is $${k\atopwithdelims ()i}{kn\atopwithdelims ()n-i}$$kiknn-i. For all these results we give bijective proofs.
               
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