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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connection between context-free grammars and normal ordering problem, and then to explore various extensions of the Stirling grammar. We present grammatical characterizations of several well…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Shi-Mei Ma , Toufik Mansour , Matthias Schork

In this paper, we introduce a context-free grammar $G\colon x \rightarrow xy,\, y \rightarrow zu,\, z \rightarrow zw,\, w \rightarrow xv,\, u \rightarrow xyz^{-1}v,\, v \rightarrow x^{-1}zwu$ over the variable set $V=\{x,y,z,w,u,v\}$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Amy M. Fu , Frank Z. K. Li

Two formalisms, both based on context-free grammars, have recently been proposed as a basis for a non-uniform random generation of combinatorial objects. The former, introduced by Denise et al, associates weights with letters, while the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-04 Yann Ponty

Carlitz and Scoville introduced the polynomials $A_n(x,y|{\alpha},{\beta})$, which we refer to as the $(\alpha, \beta)$-Eulerian polynomials. These polynomials count permutations based on Eulerian-Stirling statistics, including descents,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Kathy Q. Ji

We study the joint distribution of descents and inverse descents over the set of permutations of n letters. Gessel conjectured that the two-variable generating function of this distribution can be expanded in a given basis with nonnegative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Mirkó Visontai

Multiple (simple) context-free tree grammars are investigated, where "simple" means "linear and nondeleting". Every multiple context-free tree grammar that is finitely ambiguous can be lexicalized; i.e., it can be transformed into an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Joost Engelfriet , Andreas Maletti , Sebastian Maneth

We extend the Chomsky/Sch\"utzenberger method of computing the growth series of an unambiguous context-free language to the larger class of indexed languages. We illustrate the technique with numerous examples.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-08 Jared Adam , Eric Freden , Marni Mishna

Gessel's famous Bessel determinant formula gives the generating function of the number of permutations without increasing subsequences of a given length. Ekhad and Zeilberger proposed the challenge of finding a suitable generalization for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Ferenc Balogh

Stirling permutations were introduced by Gessel and Stanley, who used their enumeration by the number of descents to give a combinatorial interpretation of certain polynomials related to Stirling numbers. Quasi-Stirling permutations, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Sergi Elizalde

The concept of context-free grammar in Combinatorics was first introduced by Chen in 1993. In 1996, Dumont significantly extended the theory of context-free grammars to a variety of other combinatorial models. Substantial progress in this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Guo-Niu Han , Kathy Q. Ji , Huan Xiong

We study a pumping lemma for the word/tree languages generated by higher-order grammars. Pumping lemmas are known up to order-2 word languages (i.e., for regular/context-free/indexed languages), and have been used to show that a given…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Kazuyuki Asada , Naoki Kobayashi

The purpose of this paper is to show that Bessel polynomials, double factorials and Catalan triangle can be generated by using context-free grammars.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Shi-Mei Ma

This paper introduces a new combinatorial framework for modeling the growth of binary trees through a discrete evolution process that incorporates a growing rule and an extinction rule. Building upon the theory of increasingly labeled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Olivier Bodini , Antoine Genitrini , Khaydar Nurligareev

We study two generalizations of the gamma-expansion of Eulerian polynomials from the viewpoint of the decompositions of statistics. We first present an expansion formula of the trivariate Eulerian polynomials, which are the enumerators for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Shi-Mei Ma , Jun Ma , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

We consider languages generated by weighted context-free grammars. It is shown that the behaviour of large texts is controlled by saddle-point equations for an appropriate generating function. We then consider ensembles of grammars, in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-03 Eric De Giuli

In this paper we continue the study of permutations avoiding the vincular pattern $1-32-4$ by constructing a generating tree with a single label for these permutations. This construction finally provides a clearer explanation of why a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Matteo Cervetti

In this work we introduce and study various generalizations of the notion of increasingly labelled trees, where the label of a child node is always larger than the label of its parent node, to multilabelled tree families, where the nodes in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Markus Kuba , Alois Panholzer

We present bijections between four classes of combinatorial objects. Two of them, the class of unlabeled (2+2)-free posets and a certain class of involutions (or chord diagrams), already appeared in the literature, but were apparently not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou , Anders Claesson , Mark Dukes , Sergey Kitaev

We consider a variation of $O(N)$-symmetric vector models in which the vector components are Grassmann numbers. We show that these theories generate the same sort of random polymer models as the $O(N)$ vector models and that they lie in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Gordon W. Semenoff , Richard J. Szabo

This paper solves an open problem concerning the generative power of nonerasing context-free rewriting systems using a simple mechanism for checking for context dependencies, in the literature known as semi-conditional grammars of degree…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-22 Tomas Masopust