Index 201 geometric progression, 40 geometric series, 40, 79 graph, 41 chromatic polynomial of, 99 coloring of, 98 proper, 98 complete, 26 connected component of, 98, 165 coordinate, 135 directed, 9, 135 distance in, 48 simple, 165 graphs isomorphic, 131 Gray Code, 28 greedy method, 46 group acting on a set, 115 group action on colorings, 118 group of permutations, 105 hatcheck problem, 95 homogeneous linear recurrence, 40 identity function, 104, 137 identity property, 105 identity property (for permutations), 105 inclusion and exclusion principle, 93 for unions of sets, 95 indicator polynomials, 151 induction double, 35 mathematical, the principle of, 31, 147 mathematical, the strong principle of, 32 strong double, 35 inductive conclusion, 32 hypothesis, 32 step, 32 inductive definition, 33 injection, 4, 134 inverse function, 105 inverse property, 105 involution, 114 isometry, 108 isomorphic graphs, 131 k-set structures, 160 Lah number, 57 lattice path, 20 diagonal, 20 length (of a path), 48 linear recurrence, 40, 87 constant coefficient, 40 homogeneous, 40 second order, 86 mathematical induction double, 35 principle of, 31, 147 strong double, 35 ménage problem, 97 method probabilistic, 36 minimum cost spanning tree, 46 monochromatic subgraph, 37 multinomial coefficient, 60 multiorbit, 120 multiorbits, 127 multiplicity in a multiset, 56 multiset, 56 multisets product principle, 122 quotient principle, 122 sum principle, 121 union, 121 one-to-one, 4 one-to-one function, 134 onto function, 10, 134 counting, 60 ordered, 55 onto functions number of, 97 orbit, 119 orbit enumerator, 126 Orbit-Fixed Point Theorem, 127 ordered degree sequence, 72 ordered function, 55 ordered onto function, 55 ordered pair, 3 ordinary generating function, 152
202 Index pair structure, 159 pair,ordered, 3 partial fractions method of, 88 partition blocks of, 6 of a set, 5, 58 Stirling Numbers, 58 partition (of a set), 141 partition of a set type vector, 59 partition of an integer, 63 conjugate of, 65 decreasing list, 64 Ferrers diagram, 64 into n parts, 63 self conjugate, 65 type vector, 64 Young diagram, 64 partitions of a set number of, 59 Pascal’s Triangle, 12 path in graph, 43 lattice, 20 diagonal, 20 length of, 48 permutation k-element, 8 as a bijection, 11 broken, 57 cycle of, 112 two row notation, 107 permutation group, 105 picture enumerator, 74 picture enumerators product principle for, 75 pigeonhole principle, 25 generalized, 26 Pólya-Redfield Theorem, 129 principle bijection, 11 product, 5, 6 general, 6 quotient, 143 sum, 5, 6 principle of inclusion and exclusion, 93 for unions of sets, 95 principle of mathematical induction, 31, 147 probabilistic method, 36 product Cartesian, 5 product notation, 8 product principle, 5, 6 for multisets, 122 general, 6, 34 picture enumerators, 75 product principle for exponential generating functions, 160 product principle for generating functions, 79 progression arithmetic, 39 geometric, 40 proper coloring of a graph, 98 quotient principle, 18, 143 for multisets, 122 range (of a function), 133 recurrence, 38 constant coefficient, 86, 87 deletion-contraction, 48 linear, 40, 86, 87 linear homogeneous, 40 second order, 86, 87 solution to, 38 two variable, 58 recurrence relation, 38 recursive definition, 33 reflexive, 139 relation, 133 equivalence, 140, 142 of a function, 133 recurrence, 38 reflexive, 139, 140 transitive, 140 rising factorial power, 55 rotation group, 105 second order recurrence, 86 self-conjugate partition, 65
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