Incidence algebra antipodes and Lagrange inversion in one and several variables (Q1812538)

The notion of incidence algebra developed by \textit{P. Doubilet, G.-C. Rota} and \textit{R. P. Stanley} [Proc. 6th Berkeley Sympos. math. Statist. Probab., Univ. Calif. 1970, 2, 267-318 (1972; Zbl 0267.05002)] provides a combinatorial interpretation of algebraic operations on formal power series, regarded as generating functions. In this paper, the authors, using Hopf algebra techniques, show how the Lagrange inversion formula for exponential generating functions fits into the incidence algebra framework, thereby providing a new description of the coefficients appearing in it. Furthermore, they generalize their methods and results to the multivariate case, hence giving a new combinatorial interpretation of the Lagrange-Good formula for the compositional inverse of a system of \(n\) exponential generating function is \(n\) variables.