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Signed Countings of Type B and D Permutations and $t,q$-Euler numbers

Combinatorics 2020-06-25 v1

Abstract

A classical result states that the parity balance of the number of excedances of all permutations (derangements, respectively) of length nn is the Euler number. In 2010, Josuat-Verg\`{e}s gives a qq-analogue with qq representing the number of crossings. We extend this result to the permutations (derangements, respectively) of type B and D. It turns out that the signed countings are related to the derivative polynomials of tan\tan and sec\sec. Springer numbers defined by Springer can be regarded as an analogue of Euler numbers defined on every Coxeter group. In 1992 Arnol'd showed that the Springer numbers of classical types A, B, D count various combinatorial objects, called snakes. In 1999 Hoffman found that derivative polynomials of secx\sec x and tanx\tan x and their subtraction evaluated at certain values count exactly the number of snakes of certain types. Then Josuat-Verg\`{e}s studied the (t,q)(t,q)-analogs of derivative polynomials Qn(t,q)Q_n(t,q), Rn(t,q)R_n(t,q) and showed that as setting q=1q=1 the polynomials are enumerators of snakes with respect to the number of sign-changing. Our second result is to find combinatorial interpretations of Qn(t,q)Q_n(t,q) and Rn(t,q)R_n(t,q) as enumerators of the snakes, although the outcome is somewhat messy.

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@article{arxiv.2006.13688,
  title  = {Signed Countings of Type B and D Permutations and $t,q$-Euler numbers},
  author = {Hsin-Chieh Liao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.13688},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Author's MSc thesis. It is an extension of arXiv:1708.05518, some new results and conjectures are added