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Theorem 1:
Let be an analytic function near the origin whose power series expansion at has non-negative coefficients. Define . Assume that there is a single smooth strictly minimal critical point of at within the domain of analyticity of where and are real and positive. Let as with and integers. Define the following quantities: Assume that and are nonzero. Fix where and . Then, the following expression holds as : where .
In the case that and , the asymptotic formula of theorem 1 becomes In particular, for we have
Example 1: (Cyclical Interlaced Permutations)
Identify smooth minimal critical point in the direction :
Compute asymptotics in direction :
Test results:
In the direction , the coefficients of are given by
Example 2: (Necklaces)
where is Eulers totient function.
Checking for non-smooth critical points:
For each , let . Then , and . We can write which implies the system has no solution. So there are no non-smooth critical points.
Asymptotics are determined by the first term:
We consider the direction , with . For each , the term of contributes smooth critical points given by solutions to the system It is easy to show that solutions to this system satisfy For any such solution, the exponential growth is which is maximized by . So the minimal smooth critical point is . That is, the asymptotics are determined by the first term of .
To further justify that we only need to consider the first term of , note that where
Example 3: (Logarithm of Narayana Numbers)
The Narayana number counts Dyck paths of length with peaks, and with N defined by
Here, we look for coefficients of .
Example 4: (An Artificial Example)
Identify smooth critical point in direction
From example 1, the smooth minimal point in the direction is . So we again have
Compute asymptotics in the direction
Test results:
Example 5: (Cyclic Partitions of an -set) [Gao and Richmond 1992]
From Gao and Richmond's "Central and local limit theorems applied to asymptotic enumeration IV: multivariate generating functions"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037704279290247U
, with equal to the number of cyclic partitions of a set of size n with k blocks. In other words, the blocks of the partition are arranged in a cyclical order.
We can rewrite the second equation as follows:
Then, by definition of the Lambert W function ,
The Lambert W function is real exactly when k = -1 or 0. Additionally, we trivially have
and can verify by sight that z = 0 is a solution for all values of p. The solution of interest is thus when k = 0, which yields the positive z critical point coordinate
from which we also have the positive x critical point coordinate
The form of the GF makes it clear this is a positive minimal critical point, and hence it contributes to the asymptotics.