A probabilistic interpretation of the Gaussian binomial coefficients

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1295-1298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takis Konstantopoulos ◽  
Linglong Yuan

Abstract We present a stand-alone simple proof of a probabilistic interpretation of the Gaussian binomial coefficients by conditioning a random walk to hit a given lattice point at a given time.

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 725-748
Author(s):  
Sam Formichella ◽  
Armin Straub

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Palacios

Aleliunas et al. [3] proved that for a random walk on a connected raph G = (V, E) on N vertices, the expected minimum number of steps to visit all vertices is bounded by 2|E|(N - 1), regardless of the initial state. We give here a simple proof of that result through an equality involving hitting times of vertices that can be extended to an inequality for hitting times of edges, thus obtaining a bound for the expected minimum number of steps to visit all edges exactly once in each direction.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOPHIE MORIER-GENOUD ◽  
VALENTIN OVSIENKO

We introduce a notion of $q$ -deformed rational numbers and $q$ -deformed continued fractions. A $q$ -deformed rational is encoded by a triangulation of a polygon and can be computed recursively. The recursive formula is analogous to the $q$ -deformed Pascal identity for the Gaussian binomial coefficients, but the Pascal triangle is replaced by the Farey graph. The coefficients of the polynomials defining the $q$ -rational count quiver subrepresentations of the maximal indecomposable representation of the graph dual to the triangulation. Several other properties, such as total positivity properties, $q$ -deformation of the Farey graph, matrix presentations and $q$ -continuants are given, as well as a relation to the Jones polynomial of rational knots.


2022 ◽  
Vol Accepted manuscript ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian-Xiao He ◽  
Anthony G. Shannon ◽  
Peter J.-S. Shiue

In this paper, we present some identities of Gaussian binomial coefficients with respect to recursive sequences, Fibonomial coefficients, and complete functions by use of their relationships.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (09) ◽  
pp. 2050174
Author(s):  
Bo Lu ◽  
Zhenxing Di

Let [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] be [Formula: see text]-complexes with [Formula: see text] an integer such that [Formula: see text] has finite Gorenstein projective dimension and [Formula: see text] has finite Gorenstein injective dimension. We define the [Formula: see text]th Gorenstein cohomology groups [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] via a strict Gorenstein precover [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] and a strict Gorenstein preenvelope [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text]. Using Gaussian binomial coefficients we show that there exists an isomorphism [Formula: see text] which extends the balance result of Liu [Relative cohomology of complexes. J. Algebra 502 (2018) 79–97] to the [Formula: see text]-complex case.


10.37236/7680 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan R. Martin ◽  
Abhishek Methuku ◽  
Andrew Uzzell ◽  
Shanise Walker

The poset $Y_{k, 2}$ consists of $k+2$ distinct elements  $x_1$, $x_2$, \dots, $x_{k}$, $y_1$, $y_2$, such that $x_1 \le x_2 \le \cdots \le x_{k} \le y_1$, $y_2$. The poset $Y'_{k, 2}$ is the dual poset of $Y_{k, 2}$. The sum of the $k$ largest binomial coefficients of order $n$ is denoted by $\Sigma(n,k)$. Let $\mathrm{La}^{\sharp}(n,\{Y_{k, 2}, Y'_{k, 2}\})$ be the size of the largest family $\mathcal{F} \subset 2^{[n]}$ that contains neither $Y_{k,2}$ nor $Y'_{k,2}$ as an induced subposet. Methuku and Tompkins proved that $\mathrm{La}^{\sharp}(n, \{Y_{2,2}, Y'_{2,2}\}) = \Sigma(n,2)$ for $n \ge 3$ and conjectured the generalization that if $k \ge 2$ is an integer and $n \ge k+1$, then $\mathrm{La}^{\sharp}(n, \{Y_{k,2}, Y'_{k,2}\}) = \Sigma(n,k)$. On the other hand, it is known that $\mathrm{La}^{\sharp}(n, Y_{k,2})$ and $\mathrm{La}^{\sharp}(n, Y'_{k,2})$ are both strictly greater than $\Sigma(n,k)$. In this paper, we introduce a simple approach, motivated by discharging, to prove this conjecture.  


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