Title of article
A bijection between nonnegative words and sparse abba-free partitions
Author/Authors
Jan Nemecek، نويسنده , , Martin Klazar، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
Pages
6
From page
411
To page
416
Abstract
We construct a bijection proving that the following two sets have the same cardinality: (i) the set of words over {−1,0,1} of length m−2 which have every initial sum nonnegative, and (ii) the set of partitions of {1,2,…,m} such that no two consecutive numbers lie in the same block and for no four numbers the middle two are in one block and the end two are in another block. The words were considered by Gouyou-Beauchamps and Viennot who enumerated by means of them certain animals. The identity connecting (i) and (ii) was observed by Klazar who proved it by generating functions.
Keywords
Bijection , Set partition , Nonnegative prefix
Journal title
Discrete Mathematics
Serial Year
2003
Journal title
Discrete Mathematics
Record number
949111
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