We study some polynomials arising from Whitney numbers of the second kind of Dowling lattices. Special cases of our results include well-known identities involving Stirling numbers of the second kind. The main technique used is essentially due to Rota.
Flags and Whitney Numbers of Matroids
โ Scribed by J.P.S. Kung
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Volume
- 59
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0095-8956
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