Derangements, Permanents, and Christmas Presents

DOI10.2307/2324927zbMath0755.05022OpenAlexW2055191515MaRDI QIDQ3983375

S. G. Penrice

Publication date: 27 June 1992

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2324927

zbMATH Keywords

permanentsderangementsvan der Waerden's conjectureChristmas presentsMinc's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Stochastic matrices (15B51)

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