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($\mathfrak{S}_p \times \mathfrak{S}_q$)-Invariant Graphical Parking Functions

Combinatorics 2025-09-19 v2

Abstract

Graphical parking functions, or GG-parking functions, are a generalization of classical parking functions which depend on a connected multigraph GG having a distinguished root vertex. Gaydarov and Hopkins characterized the relationship between GG-parking functions and another vector-dependent generalization of parking functions, the u\boldsymbol{u}-parking functions. The crucial component of their result was their classification of all graphs GG whose GG-parking functions are invariant under action by the symmetric group Sn\mathfrak{S}_n, where n+1n+1 is the order of GG. In this work, we present a 2-dimensional analogue of Gaydarov and Hopkins' results by characterizing the overlap between GG-parking functions and 2-dimensional U\boldsymbol{U}-parking functions, i.e., pairs of integer sequences whose order statistics are bounded by certain weights along lattice paths in the plane. Our key result is a total classification of all GG whose set of GG-parking functions is (Sp×Sq)(\mathfrak{S}_p \times \mathfrak{S}_q)-invariant, where p+q+1p+q+1 is the order of GG.

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@article{arxiv.2305.03651,
  title  = {($\mathfrak{S}_p \times \mathfrak{S}_q$)-Invariant Graphical Parking Functions},
  author = {Lauren Snider and Catherine Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03651},
  year   = {2025}
}