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The hook length formula for $d$-complete posets expresses the number of linear extensions of a $d$-complete poset $P$ in terms of hooks of $P$. It generalizes the usual hook length formula for standard Young tableaux, as well as hook length…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Son Nguyen , Joseph Vulakh , Dora Woodruff

We investigate the number of permutations that occur in random labellings of trees. This is a generalisation of the number of subpermutations occurring in a random permutation. It also generalises some recent results on the number of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Michael Albert , Cecilia Holmgren , Tony Johansson , Fiona Skerman

We define a random commuting $d$-tuple of $n$-by-$n$ matrices to be a random variable that takes values in the set of commuting $d$-tuples and has a distribution that is a rapidly decaying continuous weight on this algebraic set. In the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-15 John E. McCarthy

This paper introduces a version of decoupling and randomization to establish concentration inequalities for double-indexed permutation statistics. The results yield, among other applications, a new combinatorial Hanson-Wright inequality and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Mingxuan Zou , Jingfan Xu , Peng Ding , Fang Han

We consider uniformly random set partitions of size $n$ with exactly $k$ blocks, and uniformly random permutations of size $n$ with exactly $k$ cycles, under the regime where $n-k \sim t\sqrt{n}$, $t>0$. In this regime, there is a simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Richard Arratia , Stephen DeSalvo

We present a simple formula for the expected number of inversions in a permutation of size $n$ obtained by applying $t$ random (not necessarily adjacent) transpositions to the identity permutation. More general, for any finite irreducible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-25 Jonas Sjostrand

We describe an algorithm, implemented in Python, which can enumerate any permutation class with polynomial enumeration from a structural description of the class. In particular, this allows us to find formulas for the number of permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Cheyne Homberger , Vince Vatter

We prove limit theorems for the number of fixed points, descents, and inversions of iterated random-to-top shuffles in two asymptotic regimes. Our proofs are analytic, and they utilize new combinatorial decompositions that represent each…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Alexander Clay

The sequence reconstruction problem asks for the recovery of a sequence from multiple noisy copies, where each copy may contain up to $r$ errors. In the case of permutations on \(n\) letters under the Hamming metric, this problem is closely…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-08 A. Abdollahi , J. Bagherian , H. Eskandari , F. Jafari , M. Khatami , F. Parvaresh , R. Sobhani

In this paper we study different restrictions imposed over the set of permutations of size $n$, $S_n$, and for specific classes of restrictions study the cycle structure of corresponding permutations. More specifically, we prove that for…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Enes Ozel

We show that the distribution of the number of peaks at height $i$ modulo $k$ in $k$-Dyck paths of a given length is independent of $i\in[0,k-1]$ and is the reversal of the distribution of the total number of peaks. Moreover, these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Alexander Burstein

We study the distribution of cycle lengths in models of nonuniform random permutations with cycle weights. We identify several regimes. Depending on the weights, the length of typical cycles grows like the total number $n$ of elements, or a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-06 Volker Betz , Daniel Ueltschi , Yvan Velenik

Motivated by the properties of the descent polynomials, which enumerate permutations of $S_n$ with a fixed descent set, we define descent polynomials for labeled rooted trees. We give recursive and explicit formulas for these polynomials…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Svetlana Poznanović , Maria Rodriguez Hertz , Solomon Valore-Caplan , David Wichmann

The quantity $f(n,r)$, defined as the number of permutations of the set $[n]=\{1,2,... n\}$ whose fixed points sum to $r$, shows a sharp discontinuity in the neighborhood of $r=n$. We explain this discontinuity and study the possible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Edward A. Bender , E. Rodney Canfield , L. Bruce Richmond , Herbert S. Wilf

Double cosets appear in many contexts in combinatorics, for example in the enumeration of certain objects up to symmetries. Double cosets in a quotient of the form $H\backslash G / H$ have an inverse, and can be their own inverse. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Ludovic Schwob

We consider a few special cases of the more general question: How many permutations $\pi\in\mathcal{S}_n$ have the property that $\pi^2$ has $j$ descents for some $j$? In this paper, we first enumerate Grassmannian permutations $\pi$ by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Kassie Archer , Aaron Geary

A new recursive function on discrete interval exchange transformation associated to a composition of length $r$, and the permutation $\sigma(i) = r -i +1$ is defined. Acting on composition $c$, this recursive function counts the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Mélodie Lapointe

We consider the inversion enumerator I_n(q), which counts labeled trees or, equivalently, parking functions. This polynomial has a natural extension to generalized parking functions. Substituting q = -1 into this generalized polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-04 Denis Chebikin , Alexander Postnikov

Permutations whose prefixes contain at least as many ascents as descents are called ballot permutations. Lin, Wang, and Zhao have previously enumerated ballot permutations avoiding small patterns and have proposed the problem of enumerating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Nathan Sun

We study pairs and m--tuples of compositions of a positive integer n with parts restricted to a subset P of positive integers. We obtain some exact enumeration results for the number of tuples of such compositions having the same number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Cyril Banderier , Pawel Hitczenko