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We investigate the random permutation matrices induced by the Chinese restaurant processes with $(\alpha,\theta)$-seating. When $\alpha=0,\theta>0$, the permutations are those following Ewens measures on symmetric groups, and have been…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Jaime Garza , Yizao Wang

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

Using the recently developed notion of permutation limits this paper derives the limiting distribution of the number of fixed points and cycle structure for any convergent sequence of random permutations, under mild regularity conditions.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Sumit Mukherjee

In this article we consider the cycle structure of compositions of pairs of involutions in the symmetric group S_n chosen uniformly at random. These can be modeled as modified 2-regular graphs, giving rise to exponential generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-19 Michael Lugo

We prove limit theorems for the number of fixed points occurring in a random pattern-avoiding permutation distributed according to a one-parameter family of biased distributions. The bias parameter exponentially tilts the distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Aksheytha Chelikavada , Hugo Panzo

We consider a random permutation drawn from the set of 321-avoiding permutations of length $n$ and show that the number of occurrences of another pattern $\sigma$ has a limit distribution, after scaling by $n^{m+\ell}$ where $m$ is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Svante Janson

The goal of this paper is to analyse the asymptotic behavior of the cycle process and the total number of cycles of weighted and generalized weighted random permutations which are relevant models in physics and which extend the Ewens…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-05-13 Ashkan Nikeghbali , Dirk Zeindler

We study cycle counts in permutations of $1,\dots,n$ drawn at random according to the Mallows distribution. Under this distribution, each permutation $\pi \in S_n$ is selected with probability proportional to $q^{\text{inv}(\pi)}$, where…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Jimmy He , Tobias Müller , Teun Verstraaten

We study the length of cycles in the model of spatial random permutations in Euclidean space. In this model, for given length $L$, density $\rho$, dimension $d$ and jump density $\varphi$, one samples $\rho L^d$ particles in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Dor Elboim , Ron Peled

A meander system is a union of two arc systems that represent non-crossing pairings of the set $[2n] = \{1, \ldots, 2n\}$ in the upper and lower half-plane. In this paper, we consider random meander systems. We show that for a class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Vladislav Kargin

The number of fixed points of a random permutation of 1,2,...,n has a limiting Poisson distribution. We seek a generalization, looking at other actions of the symmetric group. Restricting attention to primitive actions, a complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-08-21 Persi Diaconis , Jason Fulman , Robert Guralnick

We study the limiting behavior of smooth linear statistics of the spectrum of random permutation matrices in the mesoscopic regime, when the permutation follows one of the Ewens measures on the symmetric group. If we apply a smooth enough…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Valentin Bahier , Joseph Najnudel

We consider sequences of random variables whose probability generating functions are polynomials all of whose roots lie on the unit circle. The distribution of such random variables has only been sporadically studied in the literature. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-11 Hsien-Kuei Hwang , Vytas Zacharovas

We examine the number of cycles of length k in a permutation, as a function on the symmetric group. We write it explicitly as a combination of characters of irreducible representations. This allows to study formation of long cycles in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Gil Alon , Gady Kozma

Using a result of Gessel and Reutenauer, we find a simple formula for the number of cyclic permutations with a given descent set, by expressing it in terms of ordinary descent numbers (i.e., those counting all permutations with a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Sergi Elizalde , Justin M. Troyka

We study scaling limits of random permutations ("permutons") constrained by having fixed densities of a finite number of patterns. We show that the limit shapes are determined by maximizing entropy over permutons with those constraints. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Richard Kenyon , Daniel Kral , Charles Radin , Peter Winkler

Let $A$ be a set of natural numbers and let $S_{n,A}$ be the set of all permutations of $[n]=\{1,2,...,n\}$ with cycle lengths belonging to $A$. Furthermore, let $\mid A(n)\mid$ denote the cardinality of the set $A(n)=A\cap [n]$. The limit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Ljuben Mutafchiev

We consider a random permutation drawn from the set of 132-avoiding permutations of length $n$ and show that the number of occurrences of another pattern $\sigma$ has a limit distribution, after scaling by $n^{\lambda(\sigma)/2}$ where…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Svante Janson

We study the length of short cycles on uniformly random metric maps (also known as ribbon graphs) of large genus using a Teichm\"uller theory approach. We establish that, as the genus tends to infinity, the length spectrum converges to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Simon Barazer , Alessandro Giacchetto , Mingkun Liu

Using techniques from Poisson approximation, we prove explicit error bounds on the number of permutations that avoid any pattern. Most generally, we bound the total variation distance between the joint distribution of pattern occurrences…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Harry Crane , Stephen DeSalvo