A Bijection between Necklaces and Restricted Multisets
Combinatorics
2025-09-03 v2
Abstract
We present a proof of Swee Hong Chan's conjecture establishing a bijection between the set of necklaces of length with at most colors, and the set of periodic functions whose weighted sum is divisible by , where and are coprime positive integers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.19940,
title = {A Bijection between Necklaces and Restricted Multisets},
author = {Jiyou Li and Yanghongbo Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19940},
year = {2025}
}