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Positive-integer compositions have generating function $x / (1 - 2 x)$

Statement

Let $C$ be the class of compositions of positive integers, with size equal to the sum of the parts. Then

$OGF (C) = \frac{x}{1 - 2 x} .$

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The atomic class $Z$ and the constructions $SEQ (Z)$ and ${SEQ}_{\geq 1} (Z)$ .

[L1]

If $A$ has no size-zero objects then $SEQ (A)$ has generating function $1 / (1 - A (x))$ , and ${SEQ}_{\geq 1} (A)$ has generating function $A (x) / (1 - A (x))$ (If $A$ has no size-zero objects then $SEQ (A)$ has generating function $1 / (1 - A (x))$ ).

[L2]

Disjoint union and Cartesian product translate to addition and multiplication of ordinary generating functions (Disjoint union and Cartesian product translate to addition and multiplication of ordinary generating functions).

Proof

technique · direct

1.1L1

Let $P : = {SEQ}_{\geq 1} (Z)$ . Since $OGF (Z) = x$ , [L1] gives $OGF (P) = x / (1 - x)$ . An object of $P$ is a nonempty sequence of atoms, so it records one positive integer, namely its length.

2.1step 1.1L1L2algebra∎

A composition is a nonempty sequence of such positive-size blocks, so $C = {SEQ}_{\geq 1} (P)$ . Applying [L1] again gives $OGF (C) = OGF (P) / (1 - OGF (P)) = (x / (1 - x)) / (1 - x / (1 - x)) = x / (1 - 2 x)$ .

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Sources

Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, Analysis of Algorithms, Section 3.9 (standard reference, not scraped)
Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics (standard reference, not scraped)

Positive-integer compositions have generating function x/(1−2x)x/(1−2x)