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Consider these two distinct combinatorial objects: (1) the necklaces of length $n$ with at most $q$ colors, and (2) the multisets of integers modulo $n$ with subset sum divisible by $n$ and with the multiplicity of each element being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Swee Hong Chan

We study the problem of indexing irreducible polynomials over finite fields, and give the first efficient algorithm for this problem. Specifically, we show the existence of poly(n, log q)-size circuits that compute a bijection between {1,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-03 Swastik Kopparty , Mrinal Kumar , Michael Saks

It is a well known that, for odd $n$, the number of subsets of $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$ the sum of whose elements is divisible by $n$ equals the number of binary necklaces of length $n$. In this paper generalize this result in two directions. On…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Robert Dougherty-Bliss , Sergi Elizalde

Let $S_n$ and $S_{n,k}$ be, respectively, the number of subsets and $k$-subsets of $\mathbb{N}_n=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ such that no two subset elements differ by an element of the set $\mathcal{Q}$, the largest element of which is $q$. We prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Michael A. Allen

We show there is a bijection between the binary necklaces with $n$ black beads and $k$ white beads and certain $(n,k)$-codes when $n$ is prime. The main idea is to come up with a new map on necklaces called slime migration.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Suho Oh , Jina Park

It is shown in [7] by Venkaiah in 2015 that a category of the number of generalized can be computed using the expression \begin{equation*} e(n, q) = \frac{1}{(q-1) ord(\lambda) n} \sum^{ord(\lambda)n}_{\substack{t \in \mathbb{F}_q \setminus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-10 V Ch Venkaiah

An $(a,b)$-difference necklace of length $n$ is a circular arrangement of the integers $0, 1, 2, \ldots , n-1$ such that any two neighbours have absolute difference $a$ or $b$. We prove that, subject to certain conditions on $a$ and $b$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Ethan P. White , Richard K. Guy , Renate Scheidler

This paper addresses the problem of finding $Q_{m,t}\left(n\right)$, the number of possible ways to partition any member $n$ of the cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}$ into $t$ distinct parts. When $m$ is odd, it was previously known that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Steven S Poon

A necklace or bracelet is \textit{colorful} if no pair of adjacent beads are the same color. In addition, two necklaces are \textit{equivalent} if one results from the other by permuting its colors, and two bracelets are \textit{equivalent}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Dennis S. Bernstein , Omran Kouba

We carry out an arithmetical study of analytic functions $f: [0,1] \to [0,1]$ that by restriction induce a bijection $\mathbb{Q} \cap [0,1] \to \mathbb{Q} \cap [0,1]$. The existence of such functions shows that, unless $f(x)$ has some…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Davide Lombardo

In 1986, Shi derived the famous formula $(n+1)^{n-1}$ for the number of regions of the Shi arrangement, a hyperplane arrangement in $\mathbb{R}^n$. There are at least two different bijective explanations of this formula, one by Pak and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Duncan Levear

Simple formulas for the number of different cyclic and dihedral necklaces containing $n_j$ beads of the $j$-th color, $j\leq m$ and $\sum_{j=1}^mn_j=N$, are derived.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leonid G. Fel , Yoram Zimmels

We show new bijective proofs of previously known formulas for the number of regions of some deformations of the braid arrangement, by means of a bijection between the no-broken-circuit sets of the corresponding integral gain graphs and some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Sylvie Corteel , David Forge , Véronique Ventos

We establish a bijection between rigged configurations and highest weight elements of a tensor product of Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals for all nonexceptional types. A key idea for the proof is to embed both objects into bigger sets for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Masato Okado , Anne Schilling , Travis Scrimshaw

Let $\gamma_n$ be the permutation on $n$ symbols defined by $\gamma_n = (1\ 2\...\ n)$. We are interested in an enumerative problem on colored permutations, that is permutations $\beta$ of $n$ in which the numbers from 1 to $n$ are colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Valentin Féray , Ekaterina A. Vassilieva

The well-known "splitting necklace theorem" of Noga Alon says that each "necklace" having beads of n different colors can be fairly divided between k "thieves" by at most n(k-1) cuts. We demonstrate that Alon's result is a special case of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark de Longueville , Rade Zivaljevic

The necklace polynomials \[ M_n(x)=\frac1n\sum_{d\mid n}\mu(d)x^{n/d} \] play a central role in discrete mathematics: they count aperiodic necklaces, enumerate monic irreducible polynomials over finite fields, and give the dimensions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Sunil K. Chebolu , Ján Mináč , Tung T. Nguyen , Nguyen Duy Tân

We present a bijection between non-crossing partitions of the set $[2n+1]$ into $n+1$ blocks such that no block contains two consecutive integers, and the set of sequences $\{s_{i}\}_{1}^{n}$ such that $1 \leq s_{i} \leq i$, and if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rekha Natarajan

In this paper we investigate enumeration of some classes of $n$-character strings and binary necklaces. Recall that binary necklaces are necklaces in two colors with length $n$. We prove three results (Theorems 1, 1' and 2) concerning the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Romeo Meštrović

Motivated by the relation holding for the m-generalized Catalan numbers of type A and C, the connection between dominant regions of the m-Shi arrangement of type A and C is investigated. In the same line of thought, a bijection between mn+1…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Myrto Kallipoliti , Eleni Tzanaki
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