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Refined Eulerian numbers and ballot permutations

Combinatorics 2021-02-18 v1

Abstract

A ballot permutation is a permutation {\pi} such that in any prefix of {\pi} the descent number is not more than the ascent number. In this article, we obtained a formula in close form for the multivariate generating function of {A(n,d,j)}, which denote the number of permutations of length n with d descents and j as the first letter. Besides, by a series of calculations with generatingfunctionology, we confirm a recent conjecture of Wang and Zhang for ballot permutations.

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@article{arxiv.2102.08508,
  title  = {Refined Eulerian numbers and ballot permutations},
  author = {Tongyuan Zhao and Yue Sun and Feng Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08508},
  year   = {2021}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2009.05973

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