Using recurrence relations to count in symmetric groups
Combinatorics
2016-08-18 v1
Abstract
We use the fact that certain cosets of the stabilizer of points are pairwise conjugate in a symmetric group in order to construct recurrence relations for enumerating certain subsets of . Occasionally one can find `closed form' solutions to such recurrence relations. For example, the probability that a random element of has no cycle of length divisible by is .
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@article{arxiv.1405.5620,
title = {Using recurrence relations to count in symmetric groups},
author = {S. P. Glasby},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5620},
year = {2016}
}
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7 pages