What is... cyclic sieving
What is... cyclic sieving
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什么是...循环筛分
DOI:
10.1090/noti1084
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发表时间:
2014
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通讯作者:
J. Propp
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作者:
David M. Einstein;J. Propp
Many finite sets in combinatorics have both cyclic symmetry and a natural generating function. Surprisingly often the generating function evaluated at roots of unity counts symmetry classes. We call this the cyclic sieving phenomenon. More precisely, let C be a cyclic group generated by an element c of order n acting on a finite set X . Given a polynomial X(q) with integer coefficients in a variable q, say that the triple (X,X(q), C) exhibits the cyclic sieving phenomenon (CSP) if for all integers d, the number of elements fixed by c equals the evaluation X(ζ) where ζ = e 2πi n . In particular, X(1) is the cardinality of X , so that X(q) can be regarded as a generating function for X . In the proto-example,X is the collection of all k-elements subsets of {1, 2, . . . , n}, and X(q) is the renowned q-binomial coefficient or Gaussian polynomial