The degree sequence of Fibonacci and Lucas cubes

The Fibonacci cube Γ_n is the subgraph of the n-cube induced by the binary strings that contain no two consecutive 1’s. The Lucas cube Λ_n is obtained from Γ_n by removing vertices that start and end with 1. It is proved that the number of vertices of degree k in Γ_n and Λ_n is and , respectively. Both results are obtained in two ways, since each of the approaches yields additional results on the degree sequences of these cubes. In particular, the number of vertices of high resp. low degree in Γ_n is expressed as a sum of few terms, and the generating functions are given from which the moments of the degree sequences of Γ_n and Λ_n are easily computed.