A combinatorial bijection on di-sk trees
Abstract
A di-sk tree is a rooted binary tree whose nodes are labeled by or , and no node has the same label as its right child. The di-sk trees are in natural bijection with separable permutations. We construct a combinatorial bijection on di-sk trees proving the two quintuples and have the same distribution over separable permutations. Here for a permutation , is the set of values of the left-to-right maxima/minima of and is the set of descent bottoms of , while and are respectively the number of components of and the length of initial ascending run of . Interestingly, our bijection specializes to a bijection on -avoiding permutations, which provides (up to the classical {\em Knuth--Richards bijection}) an alternative approach to a result of Rubey (2016) that asserts the two triples and are equidistributed on -avoiding permutations. Rubey's result is a symmetric extension of an equidistribution due to Adin--Bagno--Roichman, which implies the class of -avoiding permutations with a prescribed number of components is Schur positive. Some equidistribution results for various statistics concerning tree traversal are presented in the end.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.11302,
title = {A combinatorial bijection on di-sk trees},
author = {Shishuo Fu and Zhicong Lin and Yaling Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.11302},
year = {2021}
}
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