Packing Ferrers Shapes
Combinatorics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Answering a question of Wilf, we show that if is sufficiently large, then one cannot cover an rectangle using each of the distinct Ferrers shapes of size exactly once. Moreover, the maximum number of pairwise distinct, non-overlapping Ferrers shapes that can be packed in such a rectangle is only
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@article{arxiv.math/9812075,
title = {Packing Ferrers Shapes},
author = {Noga Alon and Miklós Bóna and Joel Spencer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9812075},
year = {2007}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures