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A Classic Proof of a Recurrence for a Very Classical Sequence

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

By practicing the philosophy of our beloved late master, Marco Schutzenberger, to whose memory this article is dedicated, we give an insightful bijective proof of the three-term recurrence satisfied by the Hipparchus-Schroeder numbers 1,1,3,11,45,197,903, ...

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@article{arxiv.math/9805015,
  title  = {A Classic Proof of a Recurrence for a Very Classical Sequence},
  author = {Dominique Foata and Doron Zeilberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9805015},
  year   = {2007}
}
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