Juggling and applications to \(q\)-analogues (Q1924362)
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Juggling and applications to \(q\)-analogues (English)
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7 April 1997
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The paper enumerates periodic juggling patterns where the juggler can only catch and throw one ball at a time and patterns where the juggler can handle many balls at the same time. Assigning weights to the patterns by a crossing statistic, \(q\)-enumeration results are obtained. This technique yields a natural combinatorial interpretation for the \(q\)-Stirling numbers. Juggling patterns help in computing the Poincaré series of the affine Weyl group \(\widetilde A_{d-1}\).
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composition
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periodic juggling patterns
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\(q\)-enumeration
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\(q\)-Stirling numbers
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