Gregory–Newton summation identity for signed pancake distances
Gregory–Newton summation identity for signed pancake distances
Let denote the number of signed permutations of size whose burnt-pancake distance from the sorted stack is . Summation identity conjecture. If , then
The identity is observed in the source and is motivated by the assertion that the functions are integer-valued polynomials together with the Gregory–Newton interpolation formula. No proof or resolution is supplied, so it remains open.
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Primary source
Saúl A. Blanco, Charles Buehrle and Akshay Patidar, “On the number of pancake stacks requiring four flips to be sorted”, arXiv:1902.04055 (2019).
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