Parking cars of different sizes

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Abstract

We extend the notion of parking functions to parking sequences, which include cars of different sizes, and prove a product formula for the number of such sequences.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1045-1048
Number of pages4
JournalAmerican Mathematical Monthly
Volume123
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2016

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Funding

The authors thank two referees for their comments as well as Margaret Readdy for her comments on an earlier draft of this note. Both authors were partially supported by National Security Agency grant H98230-13-1-0280. The first author wishes to thank the Mathematics Department of Princeton University where this work was carried out.

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National Security AgencyH98230-13-1-0280

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Mathematics

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