Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4654167 | European Journal of Combinatorics | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We give a combinatorial formula for the inverses of the alternating sums of free quasi-symmetric functions of the form Fω(I) where II runs over compositions with parts in a prescribed set CC. This proves in particular three special cases (no restriction, even parts, and all parts equal to 2) which were conjectured by B.C.V. Ung in [B.C.V. Ung, Combinatorial identities for series of quasi-symmetric functions, in: Proc. FPSAC’08, Toronto, 2008].
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Authors
Florent Hivert, Jean-Christophe Novelli, Jean-Yves Thibon,