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On the powers of the descent set statistic

Combinatorics 2017-09-05 v1

Abstract

We study the sum of the rrth powers of the descent set statistic and how many small prime factors occur in these numbers. Our results depend upon the base pp expansion of nn and rr.

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@article{arxiv.1709.00778,
  title  = {On the powers of the descent set statistic},
  author = {Richard Ehrenborg and Alex Happ},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.00778},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure and 2 tables