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Prefix Exchanging and Pattern Avoidance by Involutions
Let In() denote the number of involutions in the symmetric group Sn which avoid the permutation . We say that two permutations , Sj may be exchanged if for every n, k, and order...
Aaron D. Jaggard
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COMBINATORICS
2002
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The Directed Anti-Oberwolfach Solution: Pancyclic 2-Factorizations of Complete Directed Graphs of Odd Order
The directed anti-Oberwolfach problem asks for a 2-factorization (each factor has in-degree 1 and out-degree 1 for a total degree of two) of K2n+1, not with consistent cycle compo...
Brett Stevens
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COMBINATORICS
1998
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Periodic Sorting Using Minimum Delay, Recursively Constructed Merging Networks
Let α and β be a partition of {1, . . . , n} into two blocks. A merging network is a network of comparators which allows as input arbitrary real numbers and has the property tha...
Edward A. Bender, S. Gill Williamson
COMBINATORICS
1998
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Durfee Polynomials
Let F(n) be a family of partitions of n and let F(n d) denote the set of partitions in F(n) with Durfee square of size d. We de ne the Durfee polynomial of F(n) to be the polynomi...
E. Rodney Canfield, Sylvie Corteel, Carla D. Savag...
COMBINATORICS
1998
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New Bounds for Union-free Families of Sets
: Following Frankl and F¨uredi [1] we say a family, F, of subsets of an n-set is weakly union-free if F does not contain four distinct sets A, B, C, D with A ∪ B = C ∪ D. If i...
Don Coppersmith, James B. Shearer