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Given an integer $k\ge2$, let $\omega_k(n)$ denote the number of primes that divide $n$ with multiplicity exactly $k$. We compute the density $e_{k,m}$ of those integers $n$ for which $\omega_k(n)=m$ for every integer $m\ge0$. We also show…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Ertan Elma , Greg Martin

We give recurrences, generating functions and explicit exact expressions for the enumeration of fundamental quantities involving runs in binary strings. We first focus on enumerations concerning runs of ones, and we then analyse the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Félix Balado , Guénolé C. M. Silvestre

We give a formula for the bivariate generating function of a stationary 1-dependent counting process in terms of its run probability generating function, with a probabilistic proof. The formula reduces to the well known bivariate generating…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Jim Pitman , Zhiyi You

The rectangle capacity, a word statistic that was recently introduced by the author and Mansour, counts, for two fixed positive integers $r$ and $s$, the number of occurrences of a rectangle of size $r\times s$ in the bargraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Sela Fried

Obtained a new property of superposition of the generating functions ln(1/(1-F(x))), where F(x) - generating function with integer coefficients, which allows the construction a primality tests. The theorem which is based on compositions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Dmitry Kruchinin

Enumerating the number of times one word occurs in another is a much-studied combinatorial subject. By utilizing a method that we call ``lexicographic extreme referencing'', we provide a formula for computing occurrences of one binary word…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Roger Tian

We consider the distributions of the lengths of the longest weakly increasing and strongly decreasing subsequences in words of length N from an alphabet of k letters. We find Toeplitz determinant representations for the exponential…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-07-11 Craig A. Tracy , Harold Widom

Every binary De~Bruijn sequence of order n satisfies a recursion 0=x_n+x_0+g(x_{n-1}, ..., x_1). Given a function f on (n-1) bits, let N(f; r) be the number of functions generating a De Bruijn sequence of order n which are obtained by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Don Coppersmith , Robert C. Rhoades , Jeffrey M. VanderKam

The paperfolding sequences form an uncountable class of infinite sequences over the alphabet $\{ -1, 1 \}$ that describe the sequence of folds arising from iterated folding of a piece of paper, followed by unfolding. In this note we observe…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Jeffrey Shallit

In this article, dedicated with admiration and gratitude to guru Neil Sloane on his 75-th birthday, we observe that the generating functions for multi-set permutations that do not contain an increasing subsequence of length d, and where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Shalosh B. Ekhad , Doron Zeilberger

The class of generating functions for completely monotone sequences (moments of finite positive measures on $[0,1]$) has an elegant characterization as the class of Pick functions analytic and positive on $(-\infty,1)$. We establish this…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Jian-Guo Liu , Robert L. Pego

We continue to consider the ordered lexicographic sequence, which is constructed according to the formal characteristics of a series of natural numbers. For analysis, we selected balanced parentheses with zeros, Motzkin words. As you know,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Gennady Eremin

A Catalan word $w$ is said to be flattened if the subsequence of $w$ obtained by taking the first letter of each weakly increasing run is nondecreasing. Let $\mathcal{F}_n$ denote the set of flattened Catalan words of length $n$, which has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Mark Shattuck

Given a finitely generated group with generating set $S$, we study the cogrowth sequence, which is the number of words of length $n$ over the alphabet $S$ that are equal to one. This is related to the probability of return for walks the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Jason Bell , Haggai Liu , Marni Mishna

We develop a method for counting words subject to various restrictions by finding a combinatorial interpretation for a product of weighted sums of Laguerre polynomials with parameter \alpha = -1. We describe how such a series can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-27 Jair Taylor

We show that the equality language of two non-periodic binary morphisms is generated by at most two words. If its rank is two, then the generators start (and end) with different letters. This in particular implies that any binary language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Štěpán Holub

The generating function for the number of purely crossing partitions of {1,...,n} is found in terms of the generating function for Bell numbers. Further results about generating functions for asymptotic moments of certain random Vandermonde…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Kenneth J. Dykema

We present a new recursive generation algorithm for prefix normal words. These are binary strings with the property that no substring has more 1s than the prefix of the same length. The new algorithm uses two operations on binary strings,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ferdinando Cicalese , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Massimiliano Rossi

Recently, Bill Chen, together with his disciples Alvin Dai and Robin Zhou, discovered, and very elegantly proved, an algebraic equation satisfied by the generating function enumerating 123-avoiding words with two occurrences of each of 1,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Nathaniel Shar , Doron Zeilberger

We investigate meandric systems with a large number of loops using tools inspired by free probability. For any fixed integer $r$, we express the generating function of meandric systems on $2n$ points with $n-r$ loops in terms of a finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Motohisa Fukuda , Ion Nechita