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A Bijection between Necklaces and Restricted Multisets

Combinatorics 2025-09-03 v2

Abstract

We present a proof of Swee Hong Chan's conjecture establishing a bijection between the set of necklaces of length nn with at most qq colors, and the set of periodic functions f:Zn0,1,...,q1f: \mathbb{Z}_{n}\to {0, 1, ..., q-1} whose weighted sum is divisible by nn, where qq and nn are coprime positive integers.

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@article{arxiv.2507.19940,
  title  = {A Bijection between Necklaces and Restricted Multisets},
  author = {Jiyou Li and Yanghongbo Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19940},
  year   = {2025}
}
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