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Parking function varieties for combinatorial tree models

Combinatorics 2020-07-30 v1

Abstract

We study the enumeration problem for different kind of tree parking functions introduced recently, called tree parking functions, tree parking distributions, prime tree parking functions, and prime tree parking distributions, for rooted labelled trees of important combinatorial tree families including labelled ordered, unordered and binary trees. Using combinatorial decompositions of the underlying structures yields, after solving the resulting equations, implicit characterizations of suitable generating functions of the total number of such tree parking functions for trees of size nn and nn successful drivers, from which we obtain exact and asymptotic enumeration results. The approach can be extended to the general situation of tree parking functions for trees of size nn and m<nm<n drivers for which we are also able to characterize the generating functions solutions, which allow, by applying analytic combinatorics techniques, a study of the asymptotic behaviour of the total number of tree parking functions and distributions for nn \to \infty depending on the load factor 0<α=mn<10 < \alpha = \frac{m}{n} < 1.

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@article{arxiv.2007.14676,
  title  = {Parking function varieties for combinatorial tree models},
  author = {Alois Panholzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14676},
  year   = {2020}
}