Thursday, 3 March 2016

combinatorics - Hockey-Stick Theorem for Multinomial Coefficients




Pascal's triangle has this famous hockey stick identity.
\binom{n+k+1}{k}=\sum_{j=0}^k \binom{n+j}{j}
Wonder what would be the form for multinomial coefficients?


Answer



\binom{a_1+a_2+\cdots+a_t}{a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_t}=\sum_{i=2}^t \sum_{j=1}^{i-1} \sum_{k=1}^{a_i} \binom{ a_1+a_2+\cdots+a_{i-1}+k }{a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_j-1,\cdots,a_{i-1},k }


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