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COMBINATORICS
1998
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An Exploration of the Permanent-Determinant Method
The permanent-determinant method and its generalization, the HafnianPfaffian method, are methods to enumerate perfect matchings of plane graphs that were discovered by P. W. Kaste...
Greg Kuperberg
COMBINATORICS
1998
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Permutations which are the Union of an Increasing and a Decreasing Subsequence
It is shown that there are 2n n − n−1 m=0 2n−m−1 2m m permutations which are the union of an increasing sequence and a decreasing sequence. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classi...
M. D. Atkinson
COMBINATORICS
1998
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Inclusion-Exclusion and Network Reliability
Based on a recent improvement of the inclusion-exclusion principle, we present a new approach to network reliability problems. In particular, we give a new proof of a result of Sh...
Klaus Dohmen
COMBINATORICS
1998
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Some New Ramsey Colorings
New lower bounds for 15 classical Ramsey numbers are established. Several of the colorings are found using a new variation of local search heuristics. Several others are found usi...
Geoffrey Exoo
COMBINATORICS
1998
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On Minimal Words With Given Subword Complexity
We prove that the minimal length of a word Sn having the property that it contains exactly Fm+2 distinct subwords of length m for 1 ≤ m ≤ n is Fn + Fn+2. Here Fn is the nth Fi...
Ming-wei Wang, Jeffrey Shallit