Counting abelian squares
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 16 (2009) no. 1
An abelian square is a nonempty string of length $2n$ where the last $n$ symbols form a permutation of the first $n$ symbols. Similarly, an abelian $r$'th power is a concatenation of $r$ blocks, each of length $n$, where each block is a permutation of the first $n$ symbols. In this note we point out that some familiar combinatorial identities can be interpreted in terms of abelian powers. We count the number of abelian squares and give an asymptotic estimate of this quantity.
@article{10_37236_161,
author = {L. B. Richmond and Jeffrey Shallit},
title = {Counting abelian squares},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2009},
volume = {16},
number = {1},
doi = {10.37236/161},
zbl = {1191.68479},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/161/}
}
L. B. Richmond; Jeffrey Shallit. Counting abelian squares. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 16 (2009) no. 1. doi: 10.37236/161
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