Ira Gessel's Electronically Available Papers

 

On the descent numbers and major indices for the hyperoctahedral group" (with Chak-On Chow), Adv. in Appl. Math. 38 (2007) 275–301
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A refinement of Cayley's formula for trees (with Seunghyun Seo), Electronic J. Combinatorics 11, no. 2 (2004–2006), R27.
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The generating function of ternary trees and continued fractions (with Guoce Xin),Electronic J. Combinatorics 13, no. 1 (2006), R53.
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Symmetric inclusion-exclusion, Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatorie 54 (2005), B54b.
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A short proof of the Zeilberger-Bressoud q-Dyson theorem (with Guoce Xin), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., to be published. arXiv:math.CO/0412339.

A combinatorial interpretation of the numbers 6(2n)! /n! (n+2)! (with Guoce Xin), J. Integer Seq. 8 (2005), no. 2, Article 05.2.3, 13 pp.
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Hypergraphs and a functional equation of Bouwkamp and de Bruijn (with Louis H. Kalikow) J. Combinatorial Theory, Ser. A 110 (2005), 275–289.
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On Miki's identity for Bernoulli numbers, J. Number Theory, 110 (2005), 75–82.
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Signed Mahonians (with Ron M. Adin and Yuval Roichman), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 109 (2005), 25–43.
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Slides from a talk on Rational functions with nonnegative power series coefficients, 50th Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, March 25, 2003.
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Applications of the classical umbral calculus Algebra Universalis 49 (2003), 397–434.
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The polynomial part of a restricted partition function related to the Frobenius problem (with Matthias Beck and Takao Komatsu) Electronic J. Combinatorics 8 (2001), No. 1, N7 (5 pages).
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The specification of 2-trees (with Tom Fowler, Gilbert Labelle, and Pierre Leroux), Advances in Applied Math. 28 (2002), 145–168.
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Acyclic orientations and chromatic generating functions, Discrete Math. 232 (2001), 119–130.
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On the order of Stirling numbers and alternating binomial coefficient sums (with Tamas Lengyel), Fibonacci Quarterly, 39 (2001), 444–454.
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The Smith College diploma problem, Amer. Math. Monthly 108 (2001), 55–57.
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On the number of convex polyominoes, Annales des Sciences Mathemathiques du Quebec, 24 (2000), 63–66.
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Tilings of diamonds and hexagons with defects (with Harald Helfgott),Electronic J. Combinatorics 6, No. 1 (1999), R16 (21 pages).
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Wolstenholme revisited Amer. Math. Monthly 105 (1998), 657–658.
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Lattice walks in Zd and permutations with no long ascending subsequences (with Jonathan Weinstein and Herbert S. Wilf), Electronic J. Combinatorics 5, No. 1 (1998), R2 (11 pages).
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Lattice paths and Faber polynomials (with Sangwook Ree), in Advances in Combinatorial Methods and Applications to Probability and Statistics, ed. N. Balakrishnan, Birkhauser Boston, 1997, pp. 3–13.
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Cylindric partitions (with C. Krattenthaler), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 429–479.
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Generating functions and generalized Dedekind sums, Electronic J. Combinatorics 4, No. 2, Wilf Festschrift (1997), R11 (17 pages).
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Even and odd pairs of lattice paths with multiple intersections (with Walter Shur), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 75 (1996), 243–253.
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Counting pairs of lattice paths by intersections (with Wayne Goddard, Walter Shur, Herbert S. Wilf, and Lily Yen), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 74 (1996), 173–187.
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The Tutte polynomial of a graph, depth-first search, and simplicial complex partitions (with Bruce Sagan), Electronic J. Combinatorics 3, No. 2, Foata Festschrift (1996), R9 (36 pages).
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Counting forests by descents and leaves, Electronic J. Combinatorics 3, No. 2, Foata Festschrift (1996), R8 (5 pages).
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Counting acyclic digraphs by sources and sinks, Discrete Math. 160 (1996), 253–258.
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Enumerative applications of a decomposition for graphs and digraphs, Discrete Math. 139 (1995), 257–271.
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Algebraic enumeration (with R. P. Stanley), in Handbook of Combinatorics ed. R. L. Graham, M. Grotschel, and L. Lovasz, Elsevier and MIT Press, 1995, pp. 1021–1062.
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Finding identities with the WZ method., J. Symbolic Comput. 20 (1995), 537–566.
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Counting paths in Young's lattice, J. Statistical Planning and Inference 34 (1993), 125–134.
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Super ballot numbers, J. Symbolic Computation 14 (1992), 179–194.
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A coloring problem, Amer. Math. Monthly 98 (1991), 530–533.
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Symmetric functions and P-recursiveness, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 53 (1990), 257–285.
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Generalized rook polynomials and orthogonal polynomials, in q-Series and Partitions, ed. D. Stanton, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol. 18, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989, pp. 159–176.
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Determinants, paths, and plane partitions (with X. G. Viennot), preprint, 1989
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Enumerative applications of symmetric functions, Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire B17a (1987), 17 pp.
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Counting three-line Latin rectangles, in Combinatoire énumerative, ed. G. Labelle and P. Leroux, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1234, Springer-Verlag, 1986, pp. 106–111.
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