On the number of combinations without certain separations

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2007.06.024zbMATH Open1178.05007arXiv0805.1276OpenAlexW2003064372MaRDI QIDQ925023FDOQ925023

Authors: Yidong Sun, Toufik Mansour 

Publication date: 29 May 2008

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

Abstract: In this paper we enumerate the number of ways of selecting $k$ objects from $n$ objects arrayed in a line such that no two selected ones are separated by $m-1,2m-1,\mathrm{...},pm-1$ objects and provide three different formulas when $m,pgeq1$ and $ngeqpm(k-1)$. Also, we prove that the number of ways of selecting $k$ objects from $n$ objects arrayed in a circle such that no two selected ones are separated by $m-1,2m-1,\mathrm{...},pm-1$ objects is given by $$, where $m,pgeq1$ and $ngeqmpk+1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1276

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zbMATH Keywords

number of combinations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15)

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