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Given a permutation statistic $\operatorname{st}$, define its inverse statistic $\operatorname{ist}$ by $\operatorname{ist}(\pi):=\operatorname{st}(\pi^{-1})$. We give a general approach, based on the theory of symmetric functions, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Ira M. Gessel , Yan Zhuang

The circular descent of a permutation $\sigma$ is a set $\{\sigma(i)\mid \sigma(i)>\sigma(i+1)\}$. In this paper, we focus on the enumerations of permutations by the circular descent set. Let $cdes_n(S)$ be the number of permutations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-05 Hungyung Chang , Jun Ma , Yeong-Nan Yeh

Starting from some considerations we make about the relations between certain difference statistics and the classical permutation statistics we study permutations whose inversion number and excedance difference coincide. It turns out that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Astrid Reifegerste

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

Stirling permutations were introduced by Gessel and Stanley, who used their enumeration by the number of descents to give a combinatorial interpretation of certain polynomials related to Stirling numbers. Quasi-Stirling permutations, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Sergi Elizalde

We study two related probabilistic models of permutations and trees biased by their number of descents. Here, a descent in a permutation $\sigma$ is a pair of consecutive elements $\sigma(i), \sigma(i+1)$ such that $\sigma(i) >…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Paul Thévenin , Stephan Wagner

A ballot permutation is a permutation $\pi$ such that in any prefix of $\pi$ the descent number is not more than the ascent number. By using a reversal concatenation map, we give a formula for the joint distribution (pk, des) of the peak…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 David G. L. Wang , T. Zhao

We present exponential generating function analogues to two classical identities involving the ordinary generating function of the complete homogeneous symmetric functions. After a suitable specialization the new identities reduce to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Rafael S. González D'León

Carlitz and Scoville introduced the polynomials $A_n(x,y|{\alpha},{\beta})$, which we refer to as the $(\alpha, \beta)$-Eulerian polynomials. These polynomials count permutations based on Eulerian-Stirling statistics, including descents,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Kathy Q. Ji

In this paper we study the generating polynomials obtained by enumerating signed simsun permutations by number of the descents. Properties of the polynomials, including the recurrence relations and generating functions are studied.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Shi-Mei Ma , Toufik Mansour , Hai-Na Wang

The Stirling permutations introduced by Gessel-Stanley have recently received considerable attention. Motivated by Ji's work on $(\alpha,\beta)$-Eulerian polynomials (Sci China Math., 2025) and Yan-Yang-Lin's work on $1/k$-Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Shi-Mei Ma , Jianfeng Wang , Guiying Yan , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

We exploit Krattenthaler's bijection between 123-avoiding permutations and Dyck paths to determine the Eulerian distribution over the set $S_n(123)$ of 123-avoiding permutations in $S_n$. In particular, we show that the descents of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-10-07 M. Barnabei , F. Bonetti , M. Silimbani

Finding distributions of permutation statistics over pattern-avoiding classes of permutations attracted much attention in the literature. In particular, Bukata et al. found distributions of ascents and descents on permutations avoiding any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Tian Han , Sergey Kitaev

We introduce a family of quasisymmetric functions called {\em Eulerian quasisymmetric functions}, which specialize to enumerators for the joint distribution of the permutation statistics, major index and excedance number on permutations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-24 John Shareshian , Michelle L. Wachs

One of the most central result in combinatorics says that the descent statistic and the excedance statistic are equidistribued over the symmetric group. As a continuation of the work of Shareshian-Wachs (Adv. Math., 225(6) (2010),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Shi-Mei Ma , Toufik Mansour , Yeong-Nan Yeh

Carlitz and Scoville in 1973 considered a four variable polynomial that enumerates permutations in $\mathfrak{S}_n$ with respect to the parity of its descents and ascents. In recent work, Pan and Zeng proved a $q$-analogue of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Hiranya Kishore Dey , Umesh Shankar , Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian

We introduce a family of quasisymmetric functions called {\em Eulerian quasisymmetric functions}, which have the property of specializing to enumerators for the joint distribution of the permutation statistics, major index and excedance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-19 John Shareshian , Michelle L. Wachs

We study the generating function of descent numbers for the permutations with descent pairs of prescribed parities, the distribution of which turns out to be a refinement of median Genocchi numbers. We prove the $\gamma$-positivity for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Sen-Peng Eu , Tung-Shan Fu , Hsin-Hao Lai , Yuan-Hsun Lo

We consider the joint distribution of the area and perimeter statistics on the set I_n of inversion sequences of length n represented as bargraphs. Functional equations for both the ordinary and exponential generating functions are derived…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Toufik Mansour , Mark Shattuck

We prove several general formulas for the distributions of various permutation statistics over any set of permutations whose quasisymmetric generating function is a symmetric function. Our formulas involve certain kinds of plethystic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Ira M. Gessel , Yan Zhuang