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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 perform certain alternating binomial summations with parameters that occur in the analysis of algorithms. A combination of integral and special function and special number representations is used. The results are sufficiently general to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark W. Coffey

The alternating descent statistic on permutations was introduced by Chebikin as a variant of the descent statistic. We show that the alternating descent polynomials on permutations are unimodal via a five-term recurrence relation. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Zhicong Lin , Shi-Mei Ma , David G. L. Wang , Liuquan Wang

In the context of Stirling polynomials, Gessel and Stanley introduced the definition of Stirling permutation, which has attracted extensive attention over the past decades. Recently, we introduced Stirling permutation code and provided…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Shi-Mei Ma , Hao Qi , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

In this paper, we derive eight basic identities of symmetry in three variables related to Euler polynomials and alternating power sums. These and most of their corollaries are new, since there have been results only about identities of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-18 Dae San Kim , Kyoung Ho Park

The Eulerian polynomials enumerate permutations according to their number of descents. We initiate the study of descent polynomials over Cayley permutations, which we call Caylerian polynomials. Some classical results are generalized by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Giulio Cerbai , Anders Claesson

In this paper, we establish a connection between the 1/k-Eulerian polynomials introduced by Savage and Viswanathan (Electron. J. Combin. 19(2012), P9) and k-Stirling permutations. We also introduce the dual set of Stirling permutations.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Shi-Mei Ma , Toufik Mansour

The development of the theories of the second-order Eulerian polynomials began with the works of Buckholtz and Carlitz in their studies of an asymptotic expansion. Gessel-Stanley introduced Stirling permutations and presented combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Shi-Mei Ma , Hao Qi , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

In this paper, we construct the alternating multiple q-zeta function(= Multiple Euler q-zeta function) and investigate their properties. Finally, we give some interesting functional eauations related to q-Euler polynomials.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-12-31 T. Kim

In this paper we study q-Bernoulli numbers and polynomials related to q-Stirling numbers. From thsese studying we investigate some interesting q-stirling numbers' identities related to q-Bernoulli numbers.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-10-29 Taekyun Kim

Using Reiner's definition of Stirling numbers of the second kind in types $B$ and $D$, we generalize two well-known identities concerning the classical Stirling numbers of the second kind. The first identity relates them with Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Eli Bagno , Riccardo Biagioli , David Garber

Permutation tableaux are combinatorial objects related with permutations and various statistics on them. They appeared in connection with total positivity in Grassmannians, and stationary probabilities in a PASEP model. In particular they…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Sylvie Corteel , Matthieu Josuat-Vergès , Jang Soo Kim

Stirling number of the first and the second kinds have seen many generalizations and applications in various areas of mathematics. We introduce some combinatorial parameters which realize $q$-analogues and Broder's $r$-variants of Stirling…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Eli Bagno , David Garber

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

It is well known that ascents, descents and plateaux are equidistributed over the set of classical Stirling permutations. Their common enumerative polynomials are the second-order Eulerian polynomials, which have been extensively studied by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Shi-Mei Ma , Jun-Ying Liu , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

The Gaussian polynomial in variable $q$ is defined as the $q$-analog of the binomial coefficient. In addition to remarkable implications of these polynomials to abstract algebra, matrix theory and quantum computing, there is also a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Ivica Martinjak , Ivana Zubac

We give a new combinatorial interpretation of the stationary distribution of the (partially) asymmetric exclusion process on a finite number of sites in terms of decorated alternative trees and colored permutations. The corresponding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Petter Brändén , Madeleine Leander , Mirkó Visontai

Using the correspondence between a cycle up-down permutation and a pair of matchings, we give a combinatorial proof of the enumeration of alternating permutations according to the given peak set.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Alina F. Y. Zhao

Let R(n,k) be the number of permutations of $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ with k alternating runs. In this paper, we establish the relationships between R(n,k) and the central factorial numbers of even indices as well as the number of signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Qi Fang , Ya-Nan Feng , Shi-Mei Ma

In this paper we construct $q$-Genocchi numbers and polynomials. By using these numbers and polynomials, we investigate the $q$-analogue of alternating sums of powers of consecutive integers due to Euler.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Taekyun Kim