• 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