... consider the probl`me de rencontres in the group C Sn via e Euler’s difference table For a fixed integer ≥ 1, we define Euler’s difference table for C Sn to be the array (g m )n, m≥0 defined by ,n g n,n ... (g2,n ) Table 1: Values of g m for ≤ m ≤ n ≤ and ,n = or n The = case of (1.1) corresponds to Euler’s difference table, where g1,n is the cardi0 nality of Sn and g1,n is the number of derangements, ... σ and sgnπ (i) = π = ¯ ¯ ¯ then = (1, ζ, ζ, ζ 2) and sgnπ (4) = ζ 43 i for i ∈ [n] For example, if ii) For i ∈ [n] and j ∈ {0, 1, , − 1} define ζ j i + k = ζ j (i + k) for ≤ k ≤ n − i, and...