Discrete Mathematics, Volume 180

Volume 180, Numbers 1-3, February 1998

• Bernard Leclerc, Jean-Yves Thibon:
  Preface. 1
  
• Sergei A. Abramov, Peter Paule, Marko Petkovsek:
  q-Hypergeometric solutions of q-difference equations. 3-22
  
• Tatiana V. Alekseyevskaya, Israel M. Gelfand:
  Incidence matrices, geometrical bases, combinatorial prebases and matroids. 23-44
  
• Elena Barcucci, Alberto Del Lungo, Elisa Pergola, Renzo Pinzani:
  A methodology for plane tree enumeration. 45-64
  
• Anne Bottreau, A. Di Bucchianico, Daniel E. Loeb:
  Computer algebra and Umbral Calculus. 65-72
  
• Mireille Bousquet-Mélou:
  New enumerative results on two-dimensional directed animals. 73-106
  
• Cristiano Corsani, Donatella Merlini, Renzo Sprugnoli:
  Left-inversion of combinatorial sums. 107-122
  
• Pilar de la Torre, David T. Kao:
  An algebraic approach to the prefix model analysis of binary trie structures and set intersection algorithms. 123-142
  
• Serge Dulucq, O. Guibert:
  Baxter permutations. 143-156
  
• Philip Feinsilver, René Schott:
  Formal power series, operator calculus, and duality on Lie algebras. 157-171
  
• Svjetlan Feretic:
  A new way of counting the column-convex polyominoes by perimeter. 173-184
  
• Xavier Gourdon:
  Largest component in random combinatorial structures. 185-209
  
• Christiane Hespel, Gérard Jacob:
  First steps towards exact algebraic identification. 211-219
  
• Hoang Ngoc Minh:
  Fonctions de Dirichlet d'ordre n et de paramètre t. 221-241
  
• Pierre-Vincent Koseleff:
  Relations among Lie-series transformations and isomorphisms between free Lie algebras. 243-254
  
• Cristian Lenart, Nigel Ray:
  Hopf algebras of set systems. 255-280
  
• Alexander I. Molev:
  Stirling partitions of the symmetric group and Laplace operators for the orthogonal Lie algebra. 281-300
  
• Marc Noy:
  Enumeration of noncrossing trees on a circle. 301-313
  
• Stéphane Poirier:
  Cycle type and descent set in wreath products. 315-343
  
• Boris Shapiro, Michael Shapiro, Alek Vainshtein:
  Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for certain varieties of incomplete flags. 345-355
  
• Einar Steingrímsson:
  A chromatic partition polynomial. 357-368
  
• Robert A. Sulanke:
  Catalan path statistics having the Narayana distribution. 369-389
  
• Mei Yang:
  An algorithm for computing plethysm coefficients. 391-402
  
• Alexander Zvonkin:
  How to draw a group? 403-413