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Bijective counting of involutive Baxter permutations

Combinatorics 2011-10-31 v2

Abstract

We enumerate bijectively the family of involutive Baxter permutations according to various parameters; in particular we obtain an elementary proof that the number of involutive Baxter permutations of size 2n2n with no fixed points is 32n1(n+1)(n+2)(2nn)\frac{3\cdot 2^{n-1}}{(n+1)(n+2)}\binom{2n}{n}, a formula originally discovered by M. Bousquet-M\'elou using generating functions. The same coefficient also enumerates planar maps with nn edges, endowed with an acyclic orientation having a unique source, and such that the source and sinks are all incident to the outer face.

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@article{arxiv.1010.3850,
  title  = {Bijective counting of involutive Baxter permutations},
  author = {Eric Fusy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.3850},
  year   = {2011}
}

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8 pages