ABSTRACT

A One-Stop Source of Known Results, a Bibliography of Papers on the Subject, and Novel Research Directions Focusing on a very active area of research in the last decade, Combinatorics of Compositions and Words provides an introduction to the methods used in the combinatorics of pattern avoidance and pattern enumeration in compositions and words. It

chapter 1|22 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|38 pages

Basic Tools of the Trade

chapter 3|28 pages

Compositions

chapter 4|42 pages

Statistics on Compositions

chapter 6|52 pages

Words

chapter 7|66 pages

Automata and Generating Trees

chapter 8|48 pages

Asymptotics for Compositions