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In this paper, we study permutations $\pi \in S_n$ with exactly $m$ transpositions. In particular, we are interested in the expected value of $\pi(1)$ when such permutations are chosen uniformly at random. When $n$ is even, this expected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Peter Kagey

We consider finite-sample inference for a single regression coefficient in the fixed-design linear model $Y = Z\beta + bX + \varepsilon$, where $\varepsilon\in\mathbb{R}^n$ may exhibit complex dependence or heterogeneity. We develop a group…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-20 Zonghan Li , Hongyi Zhou , Zhiheng Zhang

A sequence $\pi_1,\pi_2,\dots$ of permutations is said to be "quasirandom" if the induced density of every permutation $\sigma$ in $\pi_n$ converges to $1/|\sigma|!$ as $n\to\infty$. We prove that $\pi_1,\pi_2,\dots$ is quasirandom if and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Gabriel Crudele , Peter Dukes , Jonathan A. Noel

We use representation theory of $S_n$ to analyze the mixing of permutation cycle type statistics $a_j(\sigma) = ${# of $j$-cycles of $\sigma$} for any fixed $j$ and $\sigma$ resulting from a random $i$-cycle walk on $S_n$. We also derive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Dominic Arcona

Normal approximations for descents and inversions of permutations of the set $\{1,2,...,n\}$ are well known. A number of sequences that occur in practice, such as the human genome and other genomes, contain many repeated elements. Motivated…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-28 Mark Conger , D. Viswanath

Let $n \ge 3$ be an integer. Let $P_n = \{1, 2, 3, ..., n-1, n \}$ and let $S_n$ be the symmetric group of permutations on $P_n$. Motivated by the theory of discrete dynamical systems on the interval, we associate each permutation $\si_n$…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-09-30 Bau-Sen Du

The randomly oriented graph $G_{n,p}^{\sigma}$ is an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G_{n,p}$ with a random orientation $\sigma$, which assigns to each edge a direction so that $G_{n,p}^{\sigma}$ becomes a directed graph. Denote by $S_n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Yilun Shang

The purpose of this article is to present a general method to find limiting laws for some renormalized statistics on random permutations. The model considered here is Ewens sampling model, which generalizes uniform random permutations. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-28 Valentin Féray

For each $N\geq 1$, let $G_N$ be a simple random graph on the set of vertices $[N]=\{1,2, ..., N\}$, which is invariant by relabeling of the vertices. The asymptotic behavior as $N$ goes to infinity of correlation functions: $$ \mathfrak…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-30 Camille Male , Sandrine Péché

A permutation $\tau$ in the symmetric group $S_j$ is minimally overlapping if any two consecutive occurrences of $\tau$ in a permutation $\sigma$ can share at most one element. B\'ona \cite{B} showed that the proportion of minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ran Pan , Jeffrey B. Remmel

The goal of this paper is to understand the set $\mathrm{End}(W)$ of endomorphisms of an irreducible spherical reflection group $W$. We do this in two ways: numerically, by deriving an explicit formula for $|\mathrm{End}(W)|$; and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Isabelle Steinmann

If the rounding errors are assumed to be distributed independently from the intrinsic distribution of the random variable, the sample variance $s^2$ of the rounded variable is given by the sum of the true variance $\sigma^2$ and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-18 J. An

This article studies the Gram random matrix model $G=\frac1T\Sigma^{\rm T}\Sigma$, $\Sigma=\sigma(WX)$, classically found in the analysis of random feature maps and random neural networks, where $X=[x_1,\ldots,x_T]\in{\mathbb R}^{p\times…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Cosme Louart , Zhenyu Liao , Romain Couillet

We study the asymptotic behavior of two statistics defined on the symmetric group S_n when n tends to infinity: the number of elements of S_n having k records, and the number of elements of S_n for which the sum of the positions of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Igor Kortchemski

For any group, there is a natural (pseudo-)norm on the vector space B1 of real (group) 1-boundaries, called the stable commutator length norm. This norm is closely related to, and can be thought of as a relative version of, the Gromov…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Danny Calegari

We prove that Whitehead's algorithm for solving the automorphism problem in a fixed free group $F_k$ has strongly linear time generic-case complexity. This is done by showing that the ``hard'' part of the algorithm terminates in linear time…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilya Kapovich , Paul Schupp , Vladimir Shpilrain

The symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$ acts naturally on the poset of injective words over the alphabet $\{1, 2,\dots,n\}$. The induced representation on the homology of this poset has been computed by Reiner and Webb. We generalize their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Christos A. Athanasiadis

In this work, we investigate the extremal behaviour of left-stationary symmetric $\alpha$-stable (S$\alpha$S) random fields indexed by finitely generated free groups. We begin by studying the rate of growth of a sequence of partial maxima…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Sourav Sarkar , Parthanil Roy

The family of graphs of reduced words of a certain subcollection of permutations in the union $\cup_{n\geq 4}\frak{S}_{n}$ of symmetic groups is investigated. The subcollection is characterised by the hook cycle type $(n-2,1,1)$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Praise Adeyemo

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for generating random elements of a finite group given a set of generators of that. Our method draws upon combinatorial group theory and automata theory to achieve this objective. Furthermore, we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 MohammadJavad Vaez , Marjan Kaedi , Mahdi Kalbasi