Combinatorics of compositions and words /

A One-Stop Source of Known Results, a Bibliography of Papers on the Subject, and Novel Research Directions. Focusing on a very active area of research in the last decade, Combinatorics of Compositions and Words provides an introduction to the methods used in the combinatorics of pattern avoidance an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heubach, Silvia
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Mansour, Toufik
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2010.
Series:Discrete mathematics and its applications.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Basic tools of the trade
  • Compositions
  • Statistics on compositions
  • Avoidance of nonsubword patterns in compositions
  • Words
  • Automata and generating trees
  • Asymptotics for compositions
  • Useful identities and generating functions
  • Linear algebra and algebra review
  • Chebychev polynomials of the second kind
  • Probability theory
  • Complex analysis review
  • Using Mathematica and Maple
  • C++ and Maple programs.