The number of ways of placing k non-attacking rooks on a Ferrers board is expressed as a hypergeometric series, of a type originally studied by Karlsson and Minton. Known transformation identities for series of this type translate into new theorems about rook polynomials.

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K. Ding studied a class of Schubert varieties Xλ in type A partial flag manifolds, indexed by integer partitions λ and in bijection with dominant permutations. He observed that the Schubert cell structure of Xλ is indexed by maximal rook placements on the Ferrers board Bλ, and that the integral cohomology groups H∗(Xλ; Z), H ∗(Xμ; Z) are additively isomorphic exactly when the Ferrers boards Bλ,...

Generalizing the notion of placing rooks on a Ferrers board leads to a new class of combinatorial models and a new class of rook polynomials. Connections are established with absolute Stirling numbers and permutations, Bessel polynomials, matchings, multiset permutations, hypergeometric functions, Abel polynomials and forests, and polynomial sequences of binomial type. Factorization and recipro...

We define a generalization of the Stirling numbers of the first and second kinds and develop a new rook theory model to give combinatorial interpretations to these numbers. These rook-theoretic interpretations are used to give a direct combinatorial proof that two associated matrices are inverses of each other. We also give combinatorial interpretations of the numbers in terms of certain collec...