Overview
A One-Stop Source of Known Results, a Bibliography of Papers on the Subject, and Novel Research Directions Focusing on a very active area of research in the last decade, Combinatorics of Compositions and Words provides an introduction to the methods used in the combinatorics of pattern avoidance and pattern enumeration in compositions and words. It also presents various tools and approaches that are applicable to other areas of enumerative combinatorics. After a historical perspective on research in the area, the text introduces techniques to solve recurrence relations, including iteration and generating functions. It then focuses on enumeration of basic statistics for compositions. The text goes on to present results on pattern avoidance for subword, subsequence, and generalized patterns in compositions and then applies these results to words. The authors also cover automata, the ECO method, generating trees, and asymptotic results via random compositions and complex analysis. Highlighting both established and new results, this book explores numerous tools for enumerating patterns in compositions and words. It includes a comprehensive bibliography and incorporates the use of the computer algebra systems Maplea and Mathematica(R), as well as C++ to perform computations.
Full Product Details
Author: Silvia Heubach (California State University, Los Angeles, USA) ,
Toufik Mansour (University of Haifa, Israel)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Volume: v. 56
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 1.850kg
ISBN: 9781420072679
ISBN 10: 1420072676
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 20 July 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
! contains a lot of hidden gems, which need to be explored. It is an advantage that the authors provide fragments of Maple and Mathematica code which would help such explorations. ! The book is written in an accessible style ! it is quite easy to use for the non-specialist in the area, given a basic computer science and/or mathematical background. It will be a useful reference for the researcher, as well as a very good textbook for a graduate-level course in the area. I recommend the book heartily to both specialists and beginning researchers in the area. --IACR Book Reviews, June 2011
Author Information
Silvia Heubach is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the California State University, Los Angeles, where she received the Outstanding Professor Award in 1999/2000. Toufik Mansour is an Associate Professor at the University of Haifa. The author or co-author of more than 60 papers, Professor Mansour's general research interest is in discrete mathematics and its applications, with an emphasis on pattern avoidance problems.
