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Combinatorics of geometrically distributed random variables: Inversions and a parameter of Knuth

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

For words of length nn, generated by independent geometric random variables, we consider the mean and variance of the number of inversions and of a parameter of Knuth from permutation in situ. In this way, qq--analogues for these parameters from the usual permutation model are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.math/9903149,
  title  = {Combinatorics of geometrically distributed random variables: Inversions and a parameter of Knuth},
  author = {Helmut Prodinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9903149},
  year   = {2007}
}
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