Counting prime juggling patterns

DOI10.1007/S00373-016-1711-1zbMATH Open1351.05115arXiv1508.05296OpenAlexW1876545520MaRDI QIDQ343702FDOQ343702

Steve Butler, Christopher Cox, Jacob Landgraf, Scarlitte Ponce, Jeffrey Davis, Esther Banaian

Publication date: 29 November 2016

Published in: Graphs and Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Juggling patterns can be described by a closed walk in a (directed) state graph, where each vertex (or state) is a landing pattern for the balls and directed edges connect states that can occur consecutively. The number of such patterns of length $n$ is well known, but a long-standing problem is to count the number of prime juggling patterns (those juggling patterns corresponding to cycles in the state graph). For the case of $b=2$ balls we give an expression for the number of prime juggling patterns of length $n$ by establishing a connection with partitions of $n$ into distinct parts. From this we show the number of two-ball prime juggling patterns of length $n$ is $(gamma-o(1))2^n$ where $gamma=\mathrm{1.32963879259...}$. For larger $b$ we show there are at least $b^{n-1}$ prime cycles of length $n$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05296

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zbMATH Keywords

partitionsasymptoticsenumerationjugglingstate graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Enumeration in graph theory (05C30) Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70)

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