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In mathematics, the Gaussian binomial coefficients (also called Gaussian coefficients, Gaussian polynomials, or ''q''-binomial coefficients) are ''q''-analogs of the binomial coefficients. ==Definition== The Gaussian binomial coefficients are defined by : where ''m'' and ''r'' are non-negative integers. For the value is 1 since numerator and denominator are both empty products. Although the formula in the first clause appears to involve a rational function, it actually designates a polynomial, because the division is exact in Z : dividing out these factors gives the equivalent formula : which makes evident the fact that substituting into gives the ordinary binomial coefficient In terms of the ''q'' factorial , the formula can be stated as : a compact form (often given as only definition), which however hides the presence of many common factors in numerator and denominator. This form does make obvious the symmetry for . Instead of these algebraic expressions, one can also give a combinatorial definition of Gaussian binomial coefficients. The ordinary binomial coefficient counts the -combinations chosen from an -element set. If one takes those elements to be the different character positions in a word of length , then each -combination corresponds to a word of length using an alphabet of two letters, say with copies of the letter 1 (indicating the positions in the chosen combination) and letters 0 (for the remaining positions). To obtain from this model the Gaussian binomial coefficient , it suffices to count each word with a factor , where is the number of "inversions" of the word: the number of pairs of positions for which the leftmost position of the pair holds a letter 1 and the rightmost position holds a letter 0 in the word. It can be shown that the polynomials so defined satisfy the Pascal identities given below, and therefore coincide with the polynomials given by the algebraic definitions. A visual way to view this definition is to associate to each word a path across a rectangular grid with sides of height and width , from the bottom left corner to the top right corner, taking a step right for each letter 0 and a step up for each letter 1. Then the number of inversions of the word equals the area of the part of the rectangle that is to the bottom-right of the path. Unlike the ordinary binomial coefficient, the Gaussian binomial coefficient has finite values for (the limit being analytically meaningful for |''q''|<1): : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaussian binomial coefficient」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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