We give a purely combinatorial proof of the Glaisher-Crofton identity which derives from the analysis of discrete structures generated by iterated second derivative. The argument illustrates utility of symbolic and generating function methodology of modern enumerative combinatorics and their applications to computational problems.
Quantum physics has revealed many interesting formal properties associated with the algebra of two operators, A and B, satisfying the partial commutation relation AB-BA=1. This study surveys the relationships between classical combinatorial structure
s and the reduction to normal form of operator polynomials in such an algebra. The connection is achieved through suitable labelled graphs, or diagrams, that are composed of elementary gates. In this way, many normal form evaluations can be systematically obtained, thanks to models that involve set partitions, permutations, increasing trees, as well as weighted lattice paths. Extensions to q-analogues, multivariate frameworks, and urn models are also briefly discussed.
We consider a general concept of composition and decomposition of objects, and discuss a few natural properties one may expect from a reasonable choice thereof. It will be demonstrated how this leads to multiplication and co- multiplication laws, the
reby providing a generic scheme furnishing combinatorial classes with an algebraic structure. The paper is meant as a gentle introduction to the concepts of composition and decomposition with the emphasis on combinatorial origin of the ensuing algebraic constructions.
We count the numbers of primitive periodic orbits on families of 4-regular directed circulant graphs with $n$ vertices. The relevant counting techniques are then extended to count the numbers of primitive pseudo orbits (sets of distinct primitive per
iodic orbits) up to length $n$ that lack self-intersections, or that never intersect at more than a single vertex at a time repeated exactly twice for each self-intersection (2-encounters of length zero), for two particular families of graphs. We then regard these two families of graphs as families of quantum graphs and use the counting results to compute the variance of the coefficients of the quantum graphs characteristic polynomial.
In this note, using the derangement polynomials and their umbral representation, we give another simple proof of an identity conjectured by Lacasse in the study of the PAC-Bayesian machine learning theory.
We give a new proof of a sumset conjecture of Furstenberg that was first proved by Hochman and Shmerkin in 2012: if $log r / log s$ is irrational and $X$ and $Y$ are $times r$- and $times s$-invariant subsets of $[0,1]$, respectively, then $dim_text{
H} (X+Y) = min ( 1, dim_text{H} X + dim_text{H} Y)$. Our main result yields information on the size of the sumset $lambda X + eta Y$ uniformly across a compact set of parameters at fixed scales. The proof is combinatorial and avoids the machinery of local entropy averages and CP-processes, relying instead on a quantitative, discrete Marstrand projection theorem and a subtree regularity theorem that may be of independent interest.