Algebraic combinatorics

English

Etymology

From late 1970s.

Noun

1. Template:Lb A branch of mathematics in which techniques from abstract algebra are applied to problems in combinatorics, and vice versa.
   • 1982, Trevor Evans, Finite Representations of Two-variable Identities, E. Mendelsohn, Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, North-Holland, page 135,

     It is part of the folklore of algebraic combinatorics that “most' two-variable groupoid identities have non-trivial models in finite fields, the groupoid operation being represented by a linear function $ax+by$.

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