A derivation of the Catalan numbers from a bijection between permutations and labeled trees
Abstract
We present an algorithmic mapping from permutations of length dn to labeled n-node d-ary trees and back again. Given such a bijection, one can interpret each of the factorials in the formula for the Catalan numbers as a count of permutations.
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