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Counting Unlabeled Chordal Graphs by Equivariant Evaporation

Discrete Mathematics 2026-07-01 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We compute the number of unlabeled chordal graphs on nn vertices, both the total count (OEIS A048193) and the connected count (OEIS A048192), extending two sequences whose published values had remained at n=15n=15. The method is a Polya-Burnside enumeration: the number of unlabeled graphs in a class closed under relabeling is the average over SnS_n of the number of labeled graphs fixed by each permutation. The technical core is the evaluation, for an arbitrary permutation π\pi, of the number of π\pi-invariant labeled chordal graphs. We give a dynamic program for this quantity that lifts the evaporation-based labeled chordal counting of Hebert-Johnson, Lokshtanov and Vigoda to the equivariant setting. Its central structural ingredient is a divisor-bundle decomposition: when a connected piece spans a cyclic orbit of size cc, it forms, for each divisor dcd \mid c, a dd-fold bundle whose constituent is an object of the same kind in the cyclic world of order c/dc/d, computed by the same program recursively. We prove the decomposition and the correctness of the resulting recurrences, and we prove that the full Burnside computation runs in sub-exponential time nO(n)n^{O(\sqrt{n})}. We report the new terms through n=20n=20 and describe four independent validations, including exact agreement with all previously known values of both sequences and an Euler-transform consistency check.

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@article{arxiv.2607.02613,
  title  = {Counting Unlabeled Chordal Graphs by Equivariant Evaporation},
  author = {Matthew Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.02613},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures. Extends OEIS A048192 and A048193 (unlabeled chordal graphs) to n=20