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In 1916, MacMahon showed that permutations in $S_n$ with a fixed descent set $I$ are enumerated by a polynomial $d_I(n)$. Diaz-Lopez, Harris, Insko, Omar, and Sagan recently revived interest in this descent polynomial, and suggested the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Kaarel Hänni

Let $S_n$ be the symmetric group on the set $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$. Given a permutation $\sigma=\sigma_1\sigma_2 \cdots \sigma_n \in S_n$, we say it has a descent at index $i$ if $\sigma_i>\sigma_{i+1}$. Let $\mathcal{D}(\sigma)$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Alexander Diaz-Lopez , Kathryn Haymaker , Colin McGarry , Dylan McMahon

This note will give an enumeration of $n$-cycles in the symmetric group ${\mathcal S}_n$ by their degree (also known as their cyclic descent number) and studies similar counting problems for the conjugacy classes of $n$-cycles under the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Saeed Zakeri

In this paper we introduce the definition of marked permutations. We first present a bijection between Stirling permutations and marked permutations. We then present an involution on Stirling derangements. Furthermore, we present a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Guan-Huei Duh , Yen-chi Roger Lin , Shi-Mei Ma , Yeong-Nan Yeh

We investigate permutations in terms of their cycle structure and descent set. To do this, we generalize the classical bijection of Gessel and Reutenauer to deal with permutations that have some ascending and some descending blocks. We then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Jacob Steinhardt

It is known that the number of permutations in the symmetric group $S_{2n}$ with cycles of odd lengths only is equal to the number of permutations with cycles of even lengths only. We prove a refinement of this equality, involving descent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Ron M. Adin , Pál Hegedűs , Yuval Roichman

This paper discusses the asymptotic behaviour of the number of descents in a random signed permutation and its inverse, which was posed as an open problem by Chatterjee and Diaconis in a recent publication. For that purpose, we generalize…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Frank Röttger

We consider colored compositions where only some parts are allowed different colors, depending on their locations in the composition. The counting sequences are obtained through generating functions. Connections to many other combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Andrew Li , Hua Wang

We use representation theory of $S_n$ to analyze the mixing of permutation cycle type statistics $a_j(\sigma) = ${# of $j$-cycles of $\sigma$} for any fixed $j$ and $\sigma$ resulting from a random $i$-cycle walk on $S_n$. We also derive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Dominic Arcona

In this paper, we compute and demonstrate the equivalence of the joint distribution of the first letter and descent statistics on six avoidance classes of permutations corresponding to two patterns of length four. This distribution is in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Toufik Mansour , Mark Shattuck

We introduce the notion of a weighted inversion statistic on the symmetric group, and examine its distribution on each conjugacy class. Our work generalizes the study of several common permutation statistics, including the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Jesse Campion Loth , Michael Levet , Kevin Liu , Eric Nathan Stucky , Sheila Sundaram , Mei Yin

We explore a bijection between permutations and colored Motzkin paths that has been used in different forms by Foata and Zeilberger, Biane, and Corteel. By giving a visual representation of this bijection in terms of so-called cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Sergi Elizalde

In this paper, we study the generating functions for the number of pattern restricted Stirling permutations with a given number of plateaus, descents and ascents. Properties of the generating functions, including symmetric properties and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-21 David Callan , Shi-Mei Ma , Toufik Mansour

This paper develops techniques to study the number of descents in random permutations via martingales. We relax an assumption in the Berry-Esseen theorem of Bolthausen (1982) to extend the theorem's scope to martingale differences of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Alperen Y. Özdemir

This paper studies permutation statistics that count occurrences of patterns. Their expected values on a product of $t$ permutations chosen randomly from $\Gamma \subseteq S_{n}$, where $\Gamma$ is a union of conjugacy classes, are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Jonna Gill

The equidistribution of many crossing and nesting statistics exists in several combinatorial objects like matchings, set partitions, permutations, and embedded labelled graphs. The involutions switching nesting and crossing numbers for set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Lily Yen

In this note, we prove some and conjecture other results regarding the distribution of descent top and descent bottom sets on some pattern-avoiding permutations. In particular, for 3-letter patterns, we show bijectively that the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Alexander Burstein

A permutation is defined to be cycle-up-down if it is a product of cycles that, when written starting with their smallest element, have an up-down pattern. We prove bijectively and analytically that these permutations are enumerated by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-30 Emeric Deutsch , Sergi Elizalde

We study new statistics on permutations that are variations on the descent and the inversion statistics. In particular, we consider the alternating descent set of a permutation sigma = sigma_1sigma_2...sigma_n defined as the set of indices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-14 Denis Chebikin

We study the complex reflection groups G(r,p,n). By considering these groups as subgroups of the wreath products Z_r wr S_n, and by using Clifford theory, we define combinatorial parameters and descent representations of G(r,p,n),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eli Bagno , Riccardo Biagioli