OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
We define a connectedness system (investigated by Vim van Dam in 2002) to be a set of finite nonempty sets (edges) that is closed under taking the union of any two overlapping edges.
A binary index of n is any position of a 1 in its reversed binary expansion. The binary indices of n are row n of A048793. We define the set-system with BII-number n to be obtained by taking the binary indices of each binary index of n. Every finite set of finite nonempty sets has a different BII-number. For example, 18 has reversed binary expansion (0,1,0,0,1), and since the binary indices of 2 and 5 are {2} and {1,3} respectively, the BII-number of {{2},{1,3}} is 18. Elements of a set-system are sometimes called edges.
The enumeration of these set-systems by number of covered vertices is given by A326870.
LINKS
Gus Wiseman, Every Clutter Is a Tree of Blobs, The Mathematica Journal, Vol. 19, 2017.
EXAMPLE
The sequence of all connectedness systems together with their BII-numbers begins:
0: {}
1: {{1}}
2: {{2}}
3: {{1},{2}}
4: {{1,2}}
5: {{1},{1,2}}
6: {{2},{1,2}}
7: {{1},{2},{1,2}}
8: {{3}}
9: {{1},{3}}
10: {{2},{3}}
11: {{1},{2},{3}}
12: {{1,2},{3}}
13: {{1},{1,2},{3}}
14: {{2},{1,2},{3}}
15: {{1},{2},{1,2},{3}}
16: {{1,3}}
17: {{1},{1,3}}
18: {{2},{1,3}}
19: {{1},{2},{1,3}}
24: {{3},{1,3}}
25: {{1},{3},{1,3}}
26: {{2},{3},{1,3}}
27: {{1},{2},{3},{1,3}}
32: {{2,3}}
MATHEMATICA
bpe[n_]:=Join@@Position[Reverse[IntegerDigits[n, 2]], 1];
connsysQ[eds_]:=SubsetQ[eds, Union@@@Select[Tuples[eds, 2], Intersection@@#!={}&]];
Select[Range[0, 100], connsysQ[bpe/@bpe[#]]&]
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Gus Wiseman, Jul 29 2019
STATUS
approved