Linear Recurrences from Counting Schreier-Type Multisets
Combinatorics
2025-09-08 v1
Abstract
A nonempty set is Schreier if . Bird observed that counting Schreier sets in a certain way produces the Fibonacci sequence. Since then, various connections between variants of Schreier sets and well-known sequences have been discovered. Building on these works, we prove a linear recurrence for the sequence that counts multisets with . In particular, if we let then If we color copies of the same integer by different colors from to , i.e., then Lastly, we count Schreier sets that do not admit multiples of a given integer and witness linear recurrences whose coefficients are drawn from the th row of the Pascal triangle and have alternating signs, except possibly the last one.
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@article{arxiv.2509.05158,
title = {Linear Recurrences from Counting Schreier-Type Multisets},
author = {Hung Viet Chu and Yubo Geng and Julian King and Steven J. Miller and Garrett Tresch and Zachary Louis Vasseur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05158},
year = {2025}
}
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22 pages, 3 tables