Conjugating cyclic n-color compositions

Brian Hopkins; Jesús Sistos Barrón; Hua Wang

doi:10.61091/um122-04

Conjugating cyclic n-color compositions

Brian Hopkins
, Jesús Sistos Barrón
, Hua Wang

Mathematical Sciences

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Abstract

MacMahon extensively studied integer compositions, including the notion of conjugation. More recently, Agarwal introduced n-color compositions and their cyclic versions were considered by Gibson, Gray, and Wang. In this paper, we develop and study a conjugation rule for cyclic n-color compositions. Also, for xed ℓ, we identify and enumerate the subset of self-conjugate compositions of ℓ, as well as establish a bijection between these and the set of cyclic regular compositions of ℓ with only odd parts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	53-64
Number of pages	12
Journal	Utilitas Mathematica
Volume	122
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.61091/um122-04
State	Published - Mar 22 2025

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Statistics and Probability
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Applied Mathematics

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combinatorial proofs
conjugation
cyclic compositions
integer compositions
n-color compositions

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