Exceptional sequences and idempotent functions (Q1983234)

The paper under review deals with complete exceptional sequences of an algebra of finite representation type. According to the author, complete exceptional sequences were introduced in [\textit{A. L. Gorodentsev} and \textit{A. N. Rudakov}, Duke Math. J. 54, 115--130 (1987; Zbl 0646.14014)] for coherent sheaves on the projective space and then, in the context of finite-dimensional algebras, by \textit{C. M. Ringel} [Contemp. Math. 171, 339--352 (1994; Zbl 0851.16010)] and \textit{W. Crawley-Boevey} [CMS Conf. Proc. 14, 117--124 (1993; Zbl 0828.16012)]. The author considers the Nakayama algebra given by a quiver of type \(A_n\) with linear orientation and relations given by the composition of two consecutive arrows. He shows that the complete exceptional sequences for this algebra are parametrized by idempotent functions from a set with \(n\) elements to itself. As a consequence, he gets that their number is \(\sum_{j=1}^n\binom{n}{j}j^{n-j}\) [\textit{B. Harris} and \textit{L. Schoenfeld}, J. Comb. Theory 3, 122--135 (1967; Zbl 0153.33104)] and concludes by noting a bijection with labeled height at most one forests with \(n\) labels.