A variation on the method of Cartier and Foata via covering systems for combinatorial identities

DOI10.1006/EUJC.1994.1051MaRDI QIDQ1337619zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ethan Lewis

Publication date 9 May 1995

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/eujc.1994.1051

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial identitiescovering systems of congruencesmethod of Cartier and FoataSaalschütz identityVandermonde identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40)

Review text

The author introduces a new technique to `discover' and prove combinatorial identities (for example, the Vandermonde identity and a form of the Saalschütz identity) by considering disjoint covering systems of congruences.

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