• Enumerative combinatorics is an area of combinatorics that deals with the number of ways that certain patterns can be formed. Two examples of this type...
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  • to a partial fragmentation of the field. Enumerative combinatorics is the most classical area of combinatorics and concentrates on counting the number...
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    graph (729 vertices). In enumerative combinatorics, there are 3n signed subsets of a set of n elements. In polyhedral combinatorics, the hypercube and all...
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  • Analytic combinatorics uses techniques from complex analysis to solve problems in enumerative combinatorics, specifically to find asymptotic estimates...
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  • (perhaps arbitrary) ordering. In some contexts, such as enumerative combinatorics, the term enumeration is used more in the sense of counting – with emphasis...
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  • The Pólya enumeration theorem, also known as the Redfield–Pólya theorem and Pólya counting, is a theorem in combinatorics that both follows from and ultimately...
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    In combinatorics, a k-ary necklace of length n is an equivalence class of n-character strings over an alphabet of size k, taking all rotations as equivalent...
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    Catalan number (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    many counting problems in combinatorics whose solution is given by the Catalan numbers. The book Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 2 by combinatorialist...
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    In combinatorics, an area of mathematics, graph enumeration describes a class of combinatorial enumeration problems in which one must count undirected...
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  • Algebraic combinatorics Analytic combinatorics Arithmetic combinatorics Combinatorics on words Combinatorial design theory Enumerative combinatorics Extremal...
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    Inclusion–exclusion principle (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    Barry (2009), Applied Combinatorics (2nd ed.), CRC Press, ISBN 9781420099829 Stanley, Richard P. (1986), Enumerative Combinatorics Volume I, Wadsworth &...
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    Superpermutation (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    In combinatorial mathematics, a superpermutation on n symbols is a string that contains each permutation of n symbols as a substring. While trivial superpermutations...
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    with enumerative combinatorics which uses explicit combinatorial formulae and generating functions to describe the results, analytic combinatorics aims...
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    Lattice path (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    (2012). Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume 1 (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-107-60262-5. Stanley, Richard (2001). Enumerative Combinatorics...
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  • Möbius inversion formula (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    (1997), Enumerative Combinatorics, vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55309-1 Stanley, Richard P. (1999), Enumerative Combinatorics, vol. 2...
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  • around 700 AD. Although China had relatively few advancements in enumerative combinatorics, around 100 AD they solved the Lo Shu Square which is the combinatorial...
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    Double factorial (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    surface area of a hypersphere, and they have many applications in enumerative combinatorics. They occur in Student's t-distribution (1908), though Gosset...
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  • \ |z|<1.} The q-Pochhammer symbol is closely related to the enumerative combinatorics of partitions. The coefficient of q m a n {\displaystyle q^{m}a^{n}}...
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  • Eight queens puzzle (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    The 27×27 board is the highest-order board that has been completely enumerated. The following tables give the number of solutions to the n queens problem...
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  • Gessel, Ira M.; Stanley, Richard P. (1995), "Algebraic enumeration", Handbook of combinatorics, Vol. 1, 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 1021–1061, MR 1373677...
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  • Method of distinguished element (category Combinatorics)
    In the mathematical field of enumerative combinatorics, identities are sometimes established by arguments that rely on singling out one "distinguished...
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  • space. Enumerative combinatorics an area of combinatorics that deals with the number of ways that certain patterns can be formed. Enumerative geometry...
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  • Polynomial sequences are a topic of interest in enumerative combinatorics and algebraic combinatorics, as well as applied mathematics. Some polynomial...
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    Abramowitz & Stegun 1964, p. 826, 24.2.2 eq. II(A) Richard Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics, volume 1, second edition. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Chapter...
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  • Bertrand's ballot theorem (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    In combinatorics, Bertrand's ballot problem is the question: "In an election where candidate A receives p votes and candidate B receives q votes with...
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  • Cycle index (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    Combinatorics (2nd ed.), Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 472–479, ISBN 978-1-4200-9982-9 Tucker, Alan (1995), "9.3 The Cycle Index", Applied Combinatorics...
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  • List of partition topics (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    ways of viewing the operation of division of integers. Composition (combinatorics) Ewens's sampling formula Ferrers graph Glaisher's theorem Landau's...
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    field of combinatorics and its applications to other mathematical disciplines. Stanley is known for his two-volume book Enumerative Combinatorics (1986–1999)...
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  • In mathematics, the vertex enumeration problem for a polytope, a polyhedral cell complex, a hyperplane arrangement, or some other object of discrete geometry...
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    Noncrossing partition (category Enumerative combinatorics)
    In combinatorial mathematics, the topic of noncrossing partitions has assumed some importance because of (among other things) its application to the theory...
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