Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Formal power series
- 3 Subsets, partitions and permutations
- 4 Recurrence relations
- 5 The permanent
- 6 q-analogues
- 7 Group actions and the cycle index
- 8 Möbius inversion
- 9 The Tutte polynomial
- 10 Species
- 11 Analytic methods: a first look
- 12 Further topics
- 13 Bibliography and further directions
- Index
5 - The permanent
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Formal power series
- 3 Subsets, partitions and permutations
- 4 Recurrence relations
- 5 The permanent
- 6 q-analogues
- 7 Group actions and the cycle index
- 8 Möbius inversion
- 9 The Tutte polynomial
- 10 Species
- 11 Analytic methods: a first look
- 12 Further topics
- 13 Bibliography and further directions
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Notes on Counting: An Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics , pp. 106 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017