Science China Mathematics

, Volume 53, Issue 9, pp 2351–2362 | Cite as

A new sieve for distinct coordinate counting

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Abstract

We present a new sieve for the distinct coordinate counting problem. This significantly improves the classical inclusion-exclusion sieve for this problem, in the sense that the number of terms is reduced from \( 2^{(_2^k )} \) to k!, and reduced further to p(k) in the symmetric case, where p(k) denotes the number of partitions of k. As an illustration of applications, we give an in-depth study of a basic example arising from coding theory and graph theory.

Keywords

sieve distinct coordinate counting 

MSC(2000)

05A15 11T24 

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of MathematicsShanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghaiChina
  2. 2.Department of MathematicsUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineUSA

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