Cyclic and linear graph partitions and normal ordering

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Abstract: The Stirling number of a simple graph is the number of partitions of its vertex set into a specific number of non-empty independent sets. In 2015, Engbers et al. showed that the coefficients in the normal ordering of a word w in the alphabet x,D subject to the relation Dx=xD+1 are equal to the Stirling number of certain graphs constructed from w. In this paper, we introduce graphical versions of the Stirling numbers of the first kind and the Lah numbers and show how they occur as coefficients in other normal ordering settings. Identities involving their q-analogues are also obtained.





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