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Geometric and probabilistic aspects of some combinatorial identities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

T. P. Speed
T. P. Speed
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009.
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Abstract

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For positive integers a, b and n define the combinational expression We give geometric and probabilistic interpretations of these expressions (and their multidimensional extensions) and find new, simple proofs of the convolution identities known to hold for such expressions.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 1976 , pp. 462 - 468
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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