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A generatingfunctionology approach to a problem of Wilf

Combinatorics 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

Wilf posed the following problem: determine asymptotically as nn\to\infty the probability that a randomly chosen part size in a randomly chosen composition of n has multiplicity m. One solution of this problem was given by Hitczenko and Savage. In this paper, we study this question using the techniques of generating functions and singularity analysis.

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@article{arxiv.math/0110181,
  title  = {A generatingfunctionology approach to a problem of Wilf},
  author = {Pawel Hitczenko and Cecil C. Rousseau and Carla D. Savage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110181},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages