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A new bijective proof of Babson and Steingr\'{\i}msson's conjecture

Combinatorics 2017-01-30 v1

Abstract

Babson and Steingr\'{\i}msson introduced generalized permutation patterns and showed that most of the Mahonian statistics in the literature can be expressed by the combination of generalized pattern functions. Particularly, they defined a new Mahonian statistic in terms of generalized pattern functions, which is denoted statstat. Given a permutation π\pi, let des(π)des(\pi) denote the descent number of π\pi and maj(π)maj(\pi) denote the major index of π\pi. Babson and Steingr\'{\i}msson conjectured that (des,stat)(des,stat) and (des,maj)(des,maj) are equidistributed on SnS_n. Foata and Zeilberger settled this conjecture using q-enumeration, generating functions and Maple packages ROTA and PERCY. Later, Burstein provided a bijective proof of a refinement of this conjecture. In this paper, we give a new bijective proof of this conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1701.08044,
  title  = {A new bijective proof of Babson and Steingr\'{\i}msson's conjecture},
  author = {Joanna N. Chen and Shouxiao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08044},
  year   = {2017}
}