An asymptotic expansion for the coefficients of some power series. II: Lagrange inversion (Q801910)

[For part I, see the paper of the first author, J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 9, 451--458 (1975; Zbl 0297.05013.] This paper contains a description of, some applications of, and proofs of two statements about the behavior of various coefficients in certain expressions in formal power series. In particular, for example, the form of the coefficient of \(x^ n\) in the \(\alpha n+\beta th\) power of a series that starts as \(1+a_ 1x+...a_ nx^ n+...\), with higher coefficients, \(a_ n\), that grow factorially times a power of \(\gamma\), behaves like \(\alpha e^{\alpha a_ 1\gamma}na_ n.\) Most of the examples of applications have been handled directly; they include: showing that almost all derangements have no invariant subintervals, certain counting of blocks of graphs, smooth graphs and irreducible partitions. The proofs follow directly from a lemma in an earlier paper.