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Revista Colombiana de Matemáticas

Print version ISSN 0034-7426

Rev.colomb.mat. vol.56 no.2 Bogotá July/Dec. 2022  Epub Feb 03, 2024

https://doi.org/10.15446/recolma.v56n2.108370 

Original articles

Palindromic and Colored Superdiagonal Compositions

Composiciones Superdiagonales Palíndromas y Coloreadas

Jazmín L. Mantilla1 

Wilson Olaya-León1 

José L. Ramírez2 

1 Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia

2 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia


Abstract

A superdiagonal composition is one in which the i-th part or summand is of size greater than or equal to i. In this paper, we study the number of palindromic superdiagonal compositions and colored superdiagonal compositions. In particular, we give generating functions and explicit combinatorial formulas involving binomial coefficients and Stirling numbers of the first kind.

Keywords: Compositions; palindromic compositions; colored compositions; generating functions; combinatorial identities

Resumen

Una composición superdiagonal es aquella composición en la que la i-ésima parte (o sumando) tiene un tamaño mayor o igual que i. En este artículo, estudiamos el número de composiciones superdiagonales palindrómicas y composiciones superdiagonales coloreadas. En particular, damos funciones generatrices y fórmulas combinatorias explícitas que involucran coeficientes binomiales y números de Stirling de la primera clase.

Palabras clave: Composiciones; composiciones palíndromas; composiciones coloreadas; funciones generatrices; identidades combinatorias

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Received: May 27, 2019; Accepted: October 16, 2022

Correspondencia: Wilson Olaya-León, Escuela de Matemáticas, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Facultad de Ciencias, Carrera 27, calle 9, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Correo electrónico: wolaya@uis.edu.co. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15446/recolma.v56n2.108370

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