Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables

Robin Pemantle is Merriam Term Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the fields of probability theory and combinatorics. He received his bachelor's degree from Berkeley and his Ph.D. from MIT. He is a Fellow of the AMS and IMS and a winner of the Rollo Davidson Prize. Mark C. Wilson is Senior Teaching Faculty at the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is Editor-in-Chief of 'Notices of the American Mathematical Society' and life member of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia. Stephen Melczer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He received doctorates from the École normale supérieure de Lyon and the University of Waterloo. He is a recipient of a Governor General Silver Academic Medal and previously published the textbook 'An Invitation to Analytic Combinatorics.'

Part I. Combinatorial Enumeration: 1. Introduction; 2. Generating functions; 3. Univariate asymptotics; Part II. Mathematical Background: 4. Fourier–Laplace integrals in one variable; 5. Multivariate Fourier–Laplace integrals; 6. Laurent series, amoebas, and convex geometry; Part III. Multivariate Enumeration: 7. Overview of analytic methods for multivariate generating functions; 8. Effective computations and ACSV; 9. Smooth point asymptotics; 10. Multiple point asymptotics; 11. Cone point asymptotics; 12. Combinatorial applications; 13. Challenges and extensions; Appendices: A. Integration on manifolds; B. Algebraic topology; C. Residue forms and classical Morse theory; D. Stratification and stratified Morse theory; References; Author index; Subject index.