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If has no size-zero objects then has generating function
Statement
Let be a combinatorial class with no size-zero objects, and write
Then is a combinatorial class and
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A combinatorial class with no size-zero objects and counting sequence .
Summable formal families may be regrouped and rearranged, distribute over multiplication, and have well-defined locally finite products (Summable formal families may be regrouped and rearranged, distribute over multiplication, and have well-defined locally finite products).
Proof
For one fixed object of size , a powerset object either omits or includes it once, so the contribution of is the two-term series .
A powerset object is a simultaneous yes-or-no choice for every object of . Since every object has positive size, only finitely many such choices can affect a fixed degree, so the per-object factors of step 1.1 form a locally finite product that can be regrouped by [L1]. This also shows that each size layer of is finite.
For each there are exactly objects of size , and each contributes one factor . Regrouping the locally finite product of step 2.1 therefore gives .
Depends on
- The multiset construction $\operatorname{MSET}(\mathcal{A})$ and the powerset construction $\operatorname{PSET}(\mathcal{A})$
- A formal power series is a unit exactly when its constant coefficient is a unit
- Summable families of formal series are locally finite in every coefficient range
- Summable formal families may be regrouped and rearranged, distribute over multiplication, and have well-defined locally finite products
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Sources
- Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics (standard reference, not scraped)
- Stephen Melczer, An Invitation to Enumeration, Chapter 5: Combinatorial Constructions (standard reference, not scraped)