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Analytic combinatorics - NDMI087
Title: Analytická kombinatorika
Guaranteed by: Computer Science Institute of Charles University (32-IUUK)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2016 to 2016
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Vít Jelínek, Ph.D.
Class: Informatika Mgr. - volitelný
Classification: Informatics > Discrete Mathematics
Annotation -
Last update: IUUK (16.05.2012)
The course will focus on solving combinatorial problems by application of generating functions, with emphasis on methods based on complex analysis. No previous knowledge of complex analysis is necessary, but basic knowledge of generating functions is expected.
Literature -
Last update: IUUK (16.05.2012)

Herbert S. Wilf: Generatingfunctionology. Academic Press, 1993. ISBN 0-12-751956-4

Philippe Flajolet, Robert Sedgewick: Analytic Combinatorics. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-89806-5

Syllabus -
Last update: IUUK (16.05.2012)

Formal power series. Lagrange inversion formula. Ordinary and exponential

generating functions, and the combinatorial interpretation of their basic

operations. Overview of basic theory of complex analytic functions. Rational

and meromorphic functions, the residue theorem. Applications of complex

analysis to the enumeration of combinatorial objects. Multivariate generating

functions, and their application to the study of random combinatorial objects.

 
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