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We present several multi-variable generating functions for a new pattern matching condition on the wreath product of the cyclic group and the symmetric group. Our new pattern matching condition requires that the underlying permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-28 Sergey Kitaev , Andrew Niedermaier , Jeffrey Remmel , Manda Riehl

We show that the wreath product of two finite symmetric or alternating groups is 2-generated.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-02 James East , James D Mitchell

We study the effects of subgroup distortion in the wreath products A wr Z, where A is finitely generated abelian. We show that every finitely generated subgroup of A wr Z has distortion function equivalent to some polynomial. Moreover, for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-11 Tara Davis , Alexander Olshanskii

Let G be a group which has for all n a finite number r_n(G) of irreducible complex linear representations of dimension n. Let $\zeta(G,s) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} r_n(G) n^{-s}$ be its representation zeta function. First, in case G is a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-22 Laurent Bartholdi , Pierre de la Harpe

The excedance number for S_n is known to have an Eulerian distribution. Nevertheless, the classical proof uses descents rather than excedances. We present a direct recursive proof which seems to be folklore and extend it to the colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-03 Eli Bagno , David Garber , Toufik Mansour , Robert Shwartz

An alternating permutation of length $n$ is a permutation $\pi=\pi_1 \pi_2 ... \pi_n$ such that $\pi_1 < \pi_2 > \pi_3 < \pi_4 > ...$. Let $A_n$ denote set of alternating permutations of ${1,2,..., n}$, and let $A_n(\sigma)$ be set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-13 Joanna N. Chen , William Y. C. Chen , Robin D. P. Zhou

It is known that the notion of a transitive subgroup of a permutation group $P$ extends naturally to the subsets of $P$. We study transitive subsets of the wreath product $G \wr S_n$, where $G$ is a finite abelian group. This includes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Lukas Klawuhn , Kai-Uwe Schmidt

The alternating-runs polynomial enumerates alternating runs in the symmetric group. There are three formulae for the number of permutations, $R_{n,k}$ in $\mathfrak{S}_n$ with $k$ alternating runs, but all of them are complicated. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Hiranya Kishore Dey , Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian

We define wreath products of cocommutative Hopf algebras, and show that they enjoy a universal property of classifying cleft extensions, analogous to the Kaloujnine-Krasner theorem for groups. We show that the group ring of a wreath product…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Laurent Bartholdi , Olivier Siegenthaler , Todd Trimble

Which combinatorial sequences correspond to moments of probability measures on the real line? We present a generating function, in the form of a continued fraction, for a fourteen-parameter family of such sequences and interpret these in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Natasha Blitvić , Einar Steingrímsson

Let R(n,k) denote the number of permutations of {1,2,...,n} with k alternating runs. We find a grammatical description of the numbers R(n,k) and then present several convolution formulas involving the generating function for the numbers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Shi-Mei Ma

We define a cipher that is an extension of GOST, and study the permutation group generated by its round functions. We show that, under minimal assumptions on the components of the cipher, this group is the alternating group on the plaintext…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-02 R. Aragona , A. Caranti , M. Sala

If we treat the symmetric group $S_n$ as a probability measure space where each element has measure $1/n!$, then the number of cycles in a permutation becomes a random variable. The Cycle Length Lemma describes the expected values of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-21 John C. Baez

In this paper, we count a dual set of Stirling permutations by the number of alternating runs. Properties of the generating functions, including recurrence relations, grammatical interpretations and convolution formulas are studied.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Shi-Mei Ma , Hai-Na Wang

The group algebra of the permutation group is spanned by a set of elements called projectors. The coordinates of permutations expanded in projectors are matrix elements of irreducible representations. The projectors of the permutation group…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Bergdolt

Let $G_{n,k}$ be the group of permutations of $\{1,2,\ldots, kn\}$ that permutes the first $k$ symbols arbitrarily, then the next $k$ symbols and so on through the last $k$ symbols. Finally the $n$ blocks of size $k$ are permuted in an…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Sourav Chatterjee , Persi Diaconis

We find the exponential generating function for permutations with all valleys even and all peaks odd, and use it to determine the asymptotics for its coefficients, answering a question posed by Liviu Nicolaescu. The generating function can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-11 Ira M. Gessel , Yan Zhuang

A permutation representation of a Coxeter group $W$ naturally defines an absolute order. This family of partial orders (which includes the absolute order on $W$) is introduced and studied in this paper. Conditions under which the associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-08 Christos A. Athanasiadis , Yuval Roichman

A new class of positive definite functions related to colour-length function on arbitrary Coxeter group is introduced. Extensions of positive definite functions, called the Riesz-Coxeter product, from the Riesz product on the Rademacher…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Marek Bożejko , Światosław R. Gal , Wojciech Młotkowski

Denote the symmetric group of degree $n$ by $S_n$. Let $\rho$ be an irreducible representation of $S_n$ over the field of complex numbers and $\sigma\in S_n$. In this paper, we describe the set of eigenvalues of $\rho(\sigma)$. Based on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Alexey Staroletov