English

Dinv, Area, and Bounce for $\vec{k}$-Dyck paths

Combinatorics 2020-11-11 v1

Abstract

The well-known q,tq,t-Catalan sequence has two combinatorial interpretations as weighted sums of ordinary Dyck paths: one is Haglund's area-bounce formula, and the other is Haiman's dinv-area formula. The zeta map was constructed to connect these two formulas: it is a bijection from ordinary Dyck paths to themselves, and it takes dinv to area, and area to bounce. Such a result was extended for kk-Dyck paths by Loehr. The zeta map was extended by Armstrong-Loehr-Warrington for a very general class of paths. In this paper, We extend the dinv-area-bounce result for k\vec{k}-Dyck paths by: i) giving a geometric construction for the bounce statistic of a k\vec{k}-Dyck path, which includes the kk-Dyck paths and ordinary Dyck paths as special cases; ii) giving a geometric interpretation of the dinv statistic of a k\vec{k}-Dyck path. Our bounce construction is inspired by Loehr's construction and Xin-Zhang's linear algorithm for inverting the sweep map on k\vec{k}-Dyck paths. Our dinv interpretation is inspired by Garsia-Xin's visual proof of dinv-to-area result on rational Dyck paths.

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@article{arxiv.2011.04927,
  title  = {Dinv, Area, and Bounce for $\vec{k}$-Dyck paths},
  author = {Guoce Xin and Yingrui Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04927},
  year   = {2020}
}
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