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Preliminaries on Species and Set Operads

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The formal definition of a species and its exponential generating function are given. Based on the intuitive definition of the operation of substitution of species we give an informal definition of a set operad.

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Correspondence to Miguel A. Méndez .

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Méndez, M. (2015). Preliminaries on Species and Set Operads. In: Set Operads in Combinatorics and Computer Science. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11713-3_2

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