This second volume of a two-volume basic introduction to enumerative
combinatorics covers the composition of generating functions, trees,
algebraic generating functions, D-finite generating functions,
noncommutative generating functions, and symmetric functions. The
chapter on symmetric functions provides the only available treatment
of this subject suitable for an introductory graduate course on
combinatorics, and includes the important Robinson-Schensted-Knuth
algorithm. Also covered are connections between symmetric functions
and representation theory. An appendix by Sergey Fomin covers some
deeper aspects of symmetric function theory, including jeu de taquin
and the Littlewood-Richardson rule. As in Volume 1, the exercises play
a vital role in developing the material. There are over 250 exercises,
all with solutions or references to solutions, many of which concern
previously unpublished results. Graduate students and research
mathematicians who wish to apply combinatorics to their work will find
this an authoritative reference.
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ISBN
9780511835568
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Cambridge University Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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