The distribution on permutations induced by a random parking function
Abstract
A parking function on creates a permutation in via the order in which the cars appear in the parking spaces. Placing the uniform probability measure on the set of parking functions on induces a probability measure on . We initiate a study of some properties of this distribution. Let denote this distribution on and let denote the uniform distribution on . In particular, we obtain an explicit formula for for all . Then we show that for all but an asymptotically -negligible set of permutations, one has . However, this accounts for only an exponentially small part of the -probability. We also obtain an explicit formula for , the probability that the last cars park in positions respectively, and show that the -dimensional random vector under converges in distribution to a random vector , where are IID with the Borel distribution. We then show that in fact for , the final cars will park in increasing order with probability approaching 1 as . We also obtain an explicit formula for the expected value of the left-to-right maximum statistic , which counts the total number of left-to-right maxima in a permutation, and show that grows approximately on the order .
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@article{arxiv.2404.11529,
title = {The distribution on permutations induced by a random parking function},
author = {Ross G. Pinsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11529},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
In this version, results concerning the left-to-right maximum statistic have been added to the paper