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Using recurrence relations to count in symmetric groups

Combinatorics 2016-08-18 v1

Abstract

We use the fact that certain cosets of the stabilizer of points are pairwise conjugate in a symmetric group SnS_n in order to construct recurrence relations for enumerating certain subsets of SnS_n. Occasionally one can find `closed form' solutions to such recurrence relations. For example, the probability that a random element of SnS_n has no cycle of length divisible by qq is d=1n/q(11dq)\prod_{d=1}^{\lfloor n/q\rfloor} (1-\frac{1}{dq}).

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@article{arxiv.1405.5620,
  title  = {Using recurrence relations to count in symmetric groups},
  author = {S. P. Glasby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5620},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages

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