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I have n sectors, enumerated 0 to n-1 counterclockwise. The boundaries between these sectors are infinite branches (n of them).

These branches meet at certain points (junctions). Each junction is adjacent to a subset of the sectors (at least 3 of them).

By specifying what sectors my junctions are adjacent to, I can completely recover the tree. This seems like something known, but I would like a reference to it.

The number of trees with n branches is given by http://www.oeis.org/A001003 and this is quite easy to prove.

Furthermore, if I order the sectors in the description of the junctions, I can make this representation unique.

Example: (0,1,2,3,4,5) represents the tree with only one vertex, and 6 branches connected to this junction.

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I realized that taking the dual of my trees, I always get an n-gon, where some chords, the faces in the dual are my junctions. The bijection is now trivial.

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