Counting fixed-point-free Cayley permutations
Combinatorics
2026-03-17 v4
Abstract
Two-sort species yield differential equations for functional digraphs of Cayley permutations. From these we obtain an explicit formula for fixed-point-free Cayley permutations and prove that their proportion tends to , as for permutations and endofunctions. Our approach also yields counting formulas when the functional digraph is a tree, forest, or connected.
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@article{arxiv.2507.09304,
title = {Counting fixed-point-free Cayley permutations},
author = {Giulio Cerbai and Anders Claesson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09304},
year = {2026}
}
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31 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables