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Bijective Enumeration of 3-Factorizations of an N-Cycle

Combinatorics 2012-12-03 v1

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the factorizations of the symmetric group. Introducing a new bijection for partitioned 3-cacti, we derive an el- egant formula for the number of factorizations of a long cycle into a product of three permutations. As the most salient aspect, our construction provides the first purely combinatorial computation of this number.

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@article{arxiv.1211.7329,
  title  = {Bijective Enumeration of 3-Factorizations of an N-Cycle},
  author = {E. A. Vassilieva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.7329},
  year   = {2012}
}