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Everything is already contained in OEIS comments for A001864A001864 and A000435A000435 (a remarkable comment is that A000435 is the sequence that started it all: the first sequence in the database!)

We take $n$ labelled vertices, consider all trees on them, and sum up the distances between all pairs of vertices (each distance counted twice).

One way to do it is the following: this sum is the number of 5-tuples $(T,a,b,c,d)$ such that $T$ is a tree, $a,b,c,d$ are vertices, $ab$ is an edge of $T$ and this edge belongs to the path between $c$ and $d$ (in the order $cabd$ on the path). If we remove $ab$, we get two connected components $A\ni a$, $B\ni b$. If $|A|=i$, $|B|=n-i$, we may fix $A$, $B$ by $\binom{n}i$ ways, after that fix restrictions of $T$ onto $A$, $B$ by $i^{i-2}(n-i)^{n-i-2}$ ways and fix $a,b,c,d$ by $i^2(n-i)^2$ ways. Totally we get RHS of your formula.

Why we get LHS is explained in Claude Lenormand's comment for A000435 (there we count the sum of distances from the fixed vertex 0 to other vertices in all trees, of course it is $n$ times less than the sum of all distances.)

Everything is already contained in OEIS comments for A001864 and A000435 (a remarkable comment is that A000435 is the sequence that started it all: the first sequence in the database!)

We take $n$ labelled vertices, consider all trees on them, and sum up the distances between all pairs of vertices (each distance counted twice).

One way to do it is the following: this sum is the number of 5-tuples $(T,a,b,c,d)$ such that $T$ is a tree, $a,b,c,d$ are vertices, $ab$ is an edge of $T$ and this edge belongs to the path between $c$ and $d$ (in the order $cabd$ on the path). If we remove $ab$, we get two connected components $A\ni a$, $B\ni b$. If $|A|=i$, $|B|=n-i$, we may fix $A$, $B$ by $\binom{n}i$ ways, after that fix restrictions of $T$ onto $A$, $B$ by $i^{i-2}(n-i)^{n-i-2}$ ways and fix $a,b,c,d$ by $i^2(n-i)^2$ ways. Totally we get RHS of your formula.

Why we get LHS is explained in Claude Lenormand's comment for A000435 (there we count the sum of distances from the fixed vertex 0 to other vertices in all trees, of course it is $n$ times less than the sum of all distances.)

Everything is already contained in OEIS comments for A001864 and A000435 (a remarkable comment is that A000435 is the sequence that started it all: the first sequence in the database!)

We take $n$ labelled vertices, consider all trees on them, and sum up the distances between all pairs of vertices (each distance counted twice).

One way to do it is the following: this sum is the number of 5-tuples $(T,a,b,c,d)$ such that $T$ is a tree, $a,b,c,d$ are vertices, $ab$ is an edge of $T$ and this edge belongs to the path between $c$ and $d$ (in the order $cabd$ on the path). If we remove $ab$, we get two connected components $A\ni a$, $B\ni b$. If $|A|=i$, $|B|=n-i$, we may fix $A$, $B$ by $\binom{n}i$ ways, after that fix restrictions of $T$ onto $A$, $B$ by $i^{i-2}(n-i)^{n-i-2}$ ways and fix $a,b,c,d$ by $i^2(n-i)^2$ ways. Totally we get RHS of your formula.

Why we get LHS is explained in Claude Lenormand's comment for A000435 (there we count the sum of distances from the fixed vertex 0 to other vertices in all trees, of course it is $n$ times less than the sum of all distances.)

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Fedor Petrov
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Everything is already contained in OEIS comments for A001864 and A000435 (a remarkable comment is that A000435 is the sequence that started it all: the first sequence in the database!)

We take $n$ labelled vertices, consider all trees on them, and sum up the distances between all pairs of vertices (each distance counted twice).

One way to do it is the following: this sum is the number of 5-tuples $(T,a,b,c,d)$ such that $T$ is a tree, $a,b,c,d$ are vertices, $ab$ is an edge of $T$ and this edge belongs to the path between $c$ and $d$ (in the order $cabd$ on the path). If we remove $ab$, we get two connected components $A\ni a$, $B\ni b$. If $|A|=i$, $|B|=n-i$, we may fix $A$, $B$ by $\binom{n}i$ ways, after that fix restrictions of $T$ onto $A$, $B$ by $i^{i-2}(n-i)^{n-i-2}$ ways and fix $a,b,c,d$ by $i^2(n-i)^2$ ways. Totally we get RHS of your formula.

Why we get LHS is explained in Claude Lenormand's comment for A000435 (there we count the sum of distances from the fixed vertex 0 to other vertices in all trees, of course it is $n$ times less than the sum of all distances.)