Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4653379 European Journal of Combinatorics 2015 13 Pages PDF
Abstract
We introduce a generalization of the Stirling numbers via symmetric functions involving two weight functions. The resulting extension unifies previously known Stirling-type sequences with known symmetric function forms, as well as other sequences such as the p,q-binomial coefficients. Recurrence relations, generating functions, orthogonality relations, convolution formulas, and determinants of certain matrices involving the obtained sequences are derived. We also give combinatorial interpretations of certain cases in terms of colored partitions and permutations.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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