Descent sets of cyclic permutations in types B and D
Abstract
Elizalde constructed a bijection from the cyclic permutations to the symmetric group satisfying . We give a corresponding result on the signed symmetric group by constructing a function from the cyclic signed permutations to satisfying . Moreover, letting be the subgroup consisting of signed permutations with an even number of sign changes, we show that the restriction of to the cyclic signed permutations in or its complement is a bijection. Our function reduces to Elizalde's original bijection under the natural identification of the symmetric groups as subgroups of the signed symmetric groups. One application of our results is asymptotic normality of the descent and flag major index statistics on the cyclic signed permutations in and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.02432,
title = {Descent sets of cyclic permutations in types B and D},
author = {Kevin Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02432},
year = {2025}
}