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A Note on Combinatorial Identities for Partial Sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

S. G. Mohanty*
Affiliation:
Mcmaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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For a sequence σ = (x1, …, xn) of real numbers, let σi and respectively denote the cyclic permutation (xi, xi+1, …, xi-1) and the reverse cyclic permutation (xj, xj-1, …, xj+1), and let . Also denote by Mrj(σ) and mrj(σ) the rth largest and the rth smallest numbers respectively, among the first j partial sums s1, s2, …, Sj for 1≤rjn. As usual, let the superscripts + and — respectively mean maximize and minimize with zero.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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