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Some statistics on restricted 132 involutions

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In [GM] Guibert and Mansour studied involutions on n letters avoiding (or containing exactly once) 132 and avoiding (or containing exactly once) an arbitrary pattern on k letters. They also established a bijection between 132-avoiding involutions and Dyck word prefixes of same length. Extending this bijection to bilateral words allows to determine more parameters; in particular, we consider the number of inversions and rises of the involutions onto the words. This is the starting point for considering two different directions: even/odd involutions and statistics of some generalized patterns. Thus we first study generating functions for the number of even or odd involutions on n letters avoiding (or containing exactly once) 132 and avoiding (or containing exactly once) an arbitrary pattern τ\tau on k letters. In several interesting cases the generating function depends only on k and is expressed via Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind. Next, we consider other statistics on 132-avoiding involutions by counting an occurrences of some generalized patterns, related to the enumeration according to the number of rises.

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@article{arxiv.math/0206169,
  title  = {Some statistics on restricted 132 involutions},
  author = {O. Guibert and T. Mansour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0206169},
  year   = {2007}
}

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