English

Permutation Statistics and $q$-Fibonacci Numbers

Combinatorics 2009-09-30 v2

Abstract

In a recent paper, Goyt and Sagan studied distributions of certain set partition statistics over pattern restricted sets of set partitions that were counted by the Fibonacci numbers. Their study produced a class of qq-Fibonacci numbers, which they related to qq-Fibonacci numbers studied by Carlitz and Cigler. In this paper we will study the distributions of some Mahonian statistics over pattern restricted sets of permutations. We will give bijective proofs connecting some of our qq-Fibonacci numbers to those of Carlitz, Cigler, Goyt and Sagan. We encode these permutations as words and use a weight to produce bijective proofs of qq-Fibonacci identities. Finally, we study the distribution of some of these statistics on pattern restricted permutations that West showed were counted by even Fibonacci numbers.

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@article{arxiv.0904.0407,
  title  = {Permutation Statistics and $q$-Fibonacci Numbers},
  author = {Adam M. Goyt and David Mathisen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0407},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, new identities added, section 5 rewritten, typos corrected

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