Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 91B.79 (2024), 12 pp.

Torin Greenwood and Tristan Larson

Asymptotics of Bivariate Algebraico-Logarithmic Generating Functions

Abstract. We derive asymptotic formulae for the coefficients of bivariate generating functions with algebraic and logarithmic factors. Logarithms appear when encoding cycles of combinatorial objects, and also implicitly when objects can be broken into indecomposable parts. Asymptotics are quickly computable and can verify combinatorial properties of sequences and assist in randomly generating objects. While multiple approaches for algebraic asymptotics have recently emerged, we find that the contour manipulation approach can be extended to these D-finite generating functions.


Received: November 15, 2023. Accepted: February 15, 2024. Final version: April 1, 2024.

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