A bijection between necklaces and multisets with divisible subset sum
Combinatorics
2024-12-02 v2
Abstract
Consider these two distinct combinatorial objects: (1) the necklaces of length with at most colors, and (2) the multisets of integers modulo with subset sum divisible by and with the multiplicity of each element being strictly less than . We show that these two objects have the same cardinality when and are mutually coprime. Additionally, when is a prime power, we construct a bijection between these two objects by viewing necklaces as cyclic polynomials over the finite field of size . Specializing to answers a bijective problem posed by Richard Stanley.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1802.03507,
title = {A bijection between necklaces and multisets with divisible subset sum},
author = {Swee Hong Chan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03507},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
14 pages; v2 has additional details for the proof of Lemma 4.11 and other stylistic changes suggested by the referee