{
  "id": "0907.3168",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-07-17T22:40:10.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-07-17T22:40:10.000Z",
  "title": "Colorful Proofs of the Generating Formulas for Signed and Unsigned Stirling Numbers of the First Kind",
  "authors": [
    "Paul Levande"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 2 figures",
  "categories": [
    "math.CO"
  ],
  "abstract": "We describe proofs of the standard generating formulas for unsigned and signed Stirling numbers of the first kind that follow from a natural combinatorial interpretation based on cycle-colored permutations.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-07-17T22:40:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "05A15",
      "05A05",
      "05A19"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "unsigned stirling numbers",
      "first kind",
      "colorful proofs",
      "natural combinatorial interpretation",
      "standard generating formulas"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009arXiv0907.3168L"
    }
  }
}