Title
Counting Compositions over Finite Abelian Groups.
Abstract
We find the number of compositions over finite abelian groups under two types of restriction: (i) each part belongs to a given subset and (ii) small runs of consecutive parts must have given properties. Waring's problem over finite fields can be converted to type (i) compositions, whereas Carlitz and "locally Mullen" compositions can be formulated as type (ii) compositions. We use the multisection formula to translate the problem from integers to group elements, the transfer matrix method to do exact counting, and finally the Perron-Frobenius theorem to derive asymptotics. We also exhibit bijections involving certain restricted classes of compositions.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
Integer composition,finite abelian group,transfer matrix,enumeration
Field
DocType
Volume
Integer,Abelian group,Discrete mathematics,Finite field,Combinatorics,Transfer-matrix method (optics),Bijection, injection and surjection,Asymptotic analysis,Mathematics
Journal
25.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2.0
1077-8926
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhicheng Gao100.68
Andrew MacFie211.40
Qiang Wang323737.93