
arXiv: math/0601149
The natural forms of the Leibniz rule for the $k$th derivative of a product and of Faà di Bruno's formula for the $k$th derivative of a composition involve the differential operator $\partial^k/\partial x_1 \cdots \partial x_k$ rather than $d^k/dx^k$, with no assumptions about whether the variables $x_1,\dots,x_k$ are all distinct, or all identical, or partitioned into several distinguishable classes of indistinguishable variables. Coefficients appearing in forms of these identities in which some variables are indistinguishable are just multiplicities of indistinguishable terms (in particular, if all variables are distinct then all coefficients are 1). The computation of the multiplicities in this generalization of Faà di Bruno's formula is a combinatorial enumeration problem that, although completely elementary, seems to have been neglected. We apply the results to cumulants of probability distributions.
11B73, Exact enumeration problems, generating functions, Bell and Stirling numbers, 05-02, Faà di Bruno's formula, 05A18, set partitions, cumulants, Partitions of sets, FOS: Mathematics, Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to combinatorics, Mathematics - Combinatorics, Combinatorics (math.CO), 05A15, 05A15; 05A18; 11B73; 05-02
11B73, Exact enumeration problems, generating functions, Bell and Stirling numbers, 05-02, Faà di Bruno's formula, 05A18, set partitions, cumulants, Partitions of sets, FOS: Mathematics, Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to combinatorics, Mathematics - Combinatorics, Combinatorics (math.CO), 05A15, 05A15; 05A18; 11B73; 05-02
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