Solution to a combinatorial puzzle arising from Mayer's theory of cluster integrals

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Authors Olivier Bernardi

Publication date 19 January 2010

Published in Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4386, https://eudml.org/doc/232364, http://www.emis.de/journals/SLC/wpapers/s59bern.html

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zbMATH Keywords

generating functionweighted graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Signed and weighted graphs (05C22)

Abstract: Mayer's theory of cluster integrals allows one to write the partition function of a gas model as a generating function of weighted graphs. Recently, Labelle, Leroux and Ducharme have studied the graph weights arising from the one-dimensional hard-core gas model and noticed that the sum of the weights over all connected graphs with $n$ vertices is $(-n{)}^{n-1}$. This is, up to sign, the number of rooted Cayley trees on $n$ vertices and the authors asked for a combinatorial explanation. The main goal of this article is to provide such an explanation.

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