Issue 54A

17th International Conference on ``Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics" and GarsiaFest, June 20-25, 2005, Taormina, Sicily

Preface

Regular papers

[B54Aa] Sylvie Corteel, Sunyoung Lee and Carla D. Savage

Enumeration of Sequences Constrained by the Ratio of Consecutive Parts (12 pp.)

[B54Ab] Alexander Burstein and Isaiah Lankham

Combinatorics of Patience Sorting Piles (19 pp.)

[B54Ac] Fanja Rakotondrajao

Magic Squares, Rook Polynomials and Permutations (12 pp.)

[B54Ad] Ronald C. King, Christophe Tollu and Frédéric Toumazet

The Hive Model and the Polynomial Nature of Stretched Littlewood-Richardson Coefficients (19 pp.)

[B54Ae] Fred Butler

Symmetry and Unimodality in the q,x,y-Hit Numbers (11 pp.)

[B54Af] Cristina M. Ballantine and Rosa C. Orellana

A Combinatorial Interpretation for the Coefficients in the Kronecker Product s_(n-p,p)*s_\lambda (29 pp.)

[B54Ag] Christine Bessenrodt (Expository Paper)

Algebra Invariants for Finite Directed Graphs with Relations (11 pp.)

[B54Ah] Ronald C. King, Christophe Tollu and Frédéric Toumazet

The Hive Model and the Factorisation of Kostka Coefficients (22 pp.)

[B54Ai] Thomas Lam and Mark Shimozono

A Little Bijection for Affine Stanley Symmetric Functions (12 pp.)

[B54Aj] Federico Ardila, Victor Reiner and Lauren Williams

Bergman Complexes, Coxeter Arrangements, and Graph Associahedra (25 pp.)

[B54Ak] Manuel Bodirsky, Clemens Gröpl, Daniel Johannsen and Mihyun Kang

A Direct Decomposition of 3-Connected Planar Graphs (15 pp.)

[B54Al] Éric Fusy

Counting Unrooted Maps Using Tree-Decomposition (44 pp.)

[B54Am] Gérard H. E. Duchamp, Jean-Gabriel Luque, Karol A. Penson and Christophe Tollu

Free Quasi-Symmetric Functions, Product Actions and Quantum Field Theory of Partitions (12 pp.)

[B54An] Vladimir I. Danilov and Gleb A. Koshevoy

The Octahedron Recurrence and RSK-Correspondence (16 pp.)

Papers dedicated to Adriano Garsia

[B54Ao] Jim Haglund

The Genesis of the Macdonald Polynomial Statistic (16 pp.)

[B54Ap] Jason P. Bell

A Generalization of Cobham's Theorem for Regular Sequences (15 pp.)

[B54Aq] Jean-Christophe Aval, François Bergeron and Nantel Bergeron

Diagonal Temperley-Lieb Invariants and Harmonics (19 pp.)

[B54Ar] François Descouens and Alain Lascoux

Non-Symmetric Hall-Littlewood Polynomials (14 pp.)

[B54As] Jeffrey Remmel

The Combinatorics of Macdonald's D_n¹ Operator (55 pp.)

[B54At] Anthony Mendes and Jeffrey Remmel

Generating Functions for Statistics on C_k wreath S_n (40 pp.)