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MULTINOMIAL VANDERMONDE CONVOLUTION VIA PERMANENT

Part of: Combinatorics Basic linear algebra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2020

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KIJTI RODTES*
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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, 65000, Thailand
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Abstract

We provide a generalised Laplace expansion for the permanent function and, as a consequence, we re-prove a multinomial Vandermonde convolution. Some combinatorial identities are derived by applying special matrices to the expansion.

Keywords

derangement numbersLaplace expansionpermanentVandermonde convolution

MSC classification

Primary: 05A19: Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics
Secondary: 15A15: Determinants, permanents, other special matrix functions
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 103 , Issue 3 , June 2021 , pp. 353 - 361
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© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

The author thanks the Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, for financial support on project number P2562C033.

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