Symbolic method and directed graph enumeration
arXiv:1903.09454
Abstract
We introduce the arrow product, a systematic generating function technique for directed graph enumeration. It provides short proofs for previous results of Gessel on the number of directed acyclic graphs and of Liskovets, Robinson and Wright on the number of strongly connected directed graphs. We also recover Robinson's enumerative results on directed graphs where all strongly connected components belong to a given family.
7 pages, 3 figures