2014/02/12 by Ammar Aboud, Jean-Paul Bultel, Aboud, Ammar +7
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #Advanced Mathematical Identities #Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1402.2960
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Partial multivariate Bell polynomials have been defined by E.T. Bell in 1934. These polynomials have numerous applications in Combinatorics, Analysis, Algebra, Probabilities, etc. Many of the formulae on Bell polynomials involve combinatorial objects (set partitions, set partitions in lists, permutations, etc.). So it seems natural to investigate analogous formulae in some combinatorial Hopf algebras with bases indexed by these objects. The algebra of symmetric functions is the most famous example of a combinatorial Hopf algebra. In a first time, we show that most of the results on Bell polynomials can be written in terms of symmetric functions and transformations of alphabets. Then, we show that these results are clearer when stated in other Hopf algebras (this means that the combinatorial objects appear explicitly in the formulae). We investigate also the connexion with the Faà di Bruno Hopf algebra and the Lagrange-Bürmann formula.