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The Pólya enumeration theorem, also known as the Redfield–Pólya theorem and Pólya counting, is a theorem in combinatorics that both follows from and ultimately generalizes Burnside's lemma on the number of orbits of a group action on a set. The theorem was first published by J. Howard Redfield in 1927.
The book was unique at the time because of its arrangement, less by topic and more by method of solution, so arranged in order to build up the student's problem-solving abilities. The preface of the book contains some remarks on general problem solving and mathematical heuristics which anticipate Pólya's later works on that subject ...
Pólya’s theorem can be used to construct an example of two random variables whose characteristic functions coincide over a finite interval but are different elsewhere. Pólya’s theorem. If is a real-valued, even, continuous function which satisfies the conditions =,
Marko Riedel, Pólya's enumeration theorem and the symbolic method; Marko Riedel, Cycle indices of the set / multiset operator and the exponential formula; Harald Fripertinger (1997). "Cycle indices of linear, affine and projective groups". Linear Algebra and Its Applications. 263: 133– 156. doi: 10.1016/S0024-3795(96)00530-7. Harald ...
The monodromy theorem gives a sufficient condition for the existence of a direct analytic continuation (i.e., an extension of an analytic function to an analytic function on a bigger set). Suppose D ⊂ C {\displaystyle D\subset \mathbb {C} } is an open set and f an analytic function on D .
Burnside's lemma can compute the number of rotationally distinct colourings of the faces of a cube using three colours.. Let X be the set of 3 6 possible face color combinations that can be applied to a fixed cube, and let the rotation group G of the cube act on X by moving the colored faces: two colorings in X belong to the same orbit precisely when one is a rotation of the other.
The Pólya–Szegő inequality is used to prove the Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality, which states that among all the domains of a given fixed volume, the ball has the smallest first eigenvalue for the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions.
The Fueter–Pólya theorem, first proved by Rudolf Fueter and George Pólya, states that the only quadratic polynomial pairing functions are the Cantor polynomials. Introduction [ edit ]