Colorful Proofs of the Generating Formulas for Signed and Unsigned Stirling Numbers of the First Kind

2009/07/17 by Paul Levande, Levande, Paul
Materials Science · Mathematics · #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #math.CO #msc:05A05 #msc:05A15 #msc:05A19

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0907.3168

5 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2009/07/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We describe proofs of the standard generating formulas for unsigned and signed Stirling numbers of the first kind that follow from a natural combinatorial interpretation based on cycle-colored permutations.

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