Branchings and partitions
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- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (1975), 246-249 Request permission
Abstract:
A generating function is obtained for the number of partitions corresponding to a complete branching on a nonincreasing sequence of $n$ integers. Complete branchings are shown to be related to certain types of plane partitions.References
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- © Copyright 1975 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (1975), 246-249
- MSC: Primary 05A17; Secondary 10A45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1975-0382025-3
- MathSciNet review: 0382025