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The total number of simple undirected graphs of order $n$ is

$\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{\frac{n(n-1)}{2}}{\binom{\frac{n(n-1)}{2}}{i}} = 2^{\frac{n(n-1)}{2}}$.

What is the number of simple undirected graphs (including isomorphisms) of order $n$, maximum degree $k$, and diameter at most $d$? Is there a similar, concise representation? Are there close bounds?

The maximum degree states, that every node can be connected to at most $k$ other nodes.

The maximum diameter states, that the length of the longest shortest path between two nodes must be at most $d$ (i.e., each nodes eccentricity is at most $d$).

Since it is not yet known whether, e.g., a graph with $n=3250$, $d=2$, $k=57$ exists, I do not expect an exact solution. However an approximation or bounds would be helpful.

Edit: Maybe a slightly different point of view helps: Assuming there exists at least one graph of order $n$, maximum degree $k$, and diameter at most $d$. How many more exist if we increase the maximum degree by one? A lower bound suffices.

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    – guest17
    Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 8:03

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This paper by McKay and Wormald is a good place to look for asymptotic results for the bounded degree part of your question. Enumerating graphs of a given diameter seems very hard.

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