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Ascents of size less than d in compositions

Maisoon Falah, Toufik Mansour (2011)

Open Mathematics

A composition of a positive integer n is a finite sequence π1π2...πm of positive integers such that π1+...+πm = n. Let d be a fixed number. We say that we have an ascent of size d or more (respectively, less than d) if πi+1 ≥ πi+d (respectively, πi < πi+1 < πi + d). Recently, Brennan and Knopfmacher determined the mean, variance and limiting distribution of the number of ascents of size d or more in the set of compositions of n. In this paper, we find an explicit formula for the multi-variable...

Cardinality of height function’s range in case of maximally many rectangular islands - computed by cuts

Eszter Horváth, Branimir Šešelja, Andreja Tepavčević (2013)

Open Mathematics

We deal with rectangular m×n boards of square cells, using the cut technics of the height function. We investigate combinatorial properties of this function, and in particular we give lower and upper bounds for the number of essentially different cuts. This number turns out to be the cardinality of the height function’s range, in case the height function has maximally many rectangular islands.

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