1st Edition

Combinatorics and Number Theory of Counting Sequences

By Istvan Mezo Copyright 2020
498 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

498 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

498 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Combinatorics and Number Theory of Counting Sequences is an introduction to the theory of finite set partitions and to the enumeration of cycle decompositions of permutations. The presentation prioritizes elementary enumerative proofs. Therefore, parts of the book are designed so that even those high school students and teachers who are interested in combinatorics can have the benefit of... Read more

I Counting sequences related to set partitions and permutations



Set partitions and permutation cycles.



Generating functions



The Bell polynomials



Unimodality, log concavity and log convexity



The Bernoulli and Cauchy numbers



Ordered partitions



Asymptotics and inequalities



II Generalizations of our counting sequences



Prohibiting elements from being together



Avoidance of big substructures



Prohibiting elements from being together



Avoidance of big substructures



Avoidance of small substructures



III Number theoretical properties



Congurences



Congruences vial finite field methods



Diophantic results



Appendix



 

Biography

István Mező is a Hungarian mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 2010 at the University of Debrecen. He was working in this institute until 2014. After two years of Prometeo Professorship at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Quito, Ecuador) between 2012 and 2014 he moved to Nanjing, China, where he is now a full-time research professor.