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Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (Séries Formelles et Combinatoire Algébrique), 1994
About this Title
Louis J. Billera, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Curtis Greene, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, Rodica E Simion, George Washington University, Washington, DC and Richard P. Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Editors
Publication: DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Publication Year:
1996; Volume 24
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0324-0 (print); 978-1-4704-3982-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/024
MathSciNet review: MR1363503
MSC: Primary 05-06
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- The combinatorics of permutation polytopes
- Nonpure shellability, f-vectors, subspace arrangements, and complexity
- Metric geometry: Connections with combinatorics
- Algebraic languages: A bridge between combinatorics and computer science
- A survey of combinatorial problems in Lie algebra homology
- Algebraic and analytic approaches for the genus series for 2-cell embeddings on orientable and nonorientable surfaces
- The boundary of Young lattice and random Young tableaux
- A survey of noncommutative rational series
- Plethysm, partitions with an even number of blocks, and Euler numbers