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The real type of a finite family of univariate polynomials characterizes the combined sign behavior of the polynomials over the real line. We derive an explicit formula for the number of real types subject to given degree bounds. For the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Nicolas Faroß , Thomas Sturm

The classical Eulerian polynomials $A_n(t)$ are known to be gamma positive. Define the positive Eulerian polynomial $A_n^+(t)$ as the polynomial obtained when we sum descents over the alternating group. We show that $A_n^+(t)$ is gamma…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Hiranya Kishore Dey , Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian

We define an excedance number for the multi-colored permutation group, i.e. the wreath product of Z_{r_1} x ... x Z_{r_k} with S_n, and calculate its multi-distribution with some natural parameters. We also compute the multi-distribution of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eli Bagno , Ayelet Butman , David Garber

Exponential sums with monomials are highly related to many interesting problems in number theory and well studied by many literatures. In this paper, we consider the exponential sums with polynomials and prove a new upper bound. As an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Lingyu Guo , Victor Zhenyu Guo , Mengyao Jing

One of the most central result in combinatorics says that the descent statistic and the excedance statistic are equidistribued over the symmetric group. As a continuation of the work of Shareshian-Wachs (Adv. Math., 225(6) (2010),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Shi-Mei Ma , Toufik Mansour , Yeong-Nan Yeh

The $1/k$-Eulerian polynomials $A^{(k)}_{n}(x)$ were introduced as ascent polynomials over $k$-inversion sequences by Savage and Viswanathan. The bi-$\gamma$-positivity of the $1/k$-Eulerian polynomials $A^{(k)}_{n}(x)$ was known but to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Sherry H. F. Yan , Xubo Yang , Zhicong Lin

In this paper, we derive basic identities of symmetry in two variables related to higher-order q-Euler polynomials and q-analogue of higher order alternating power sums. The derivation of identities are based on the multibvariate p-adic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Dae San Kim , Taekyun Kim

The motivation of this paper is to investigate the joint distribution of succession and Eulerian statistics. We first investigate the enumerators for the joint distribution of descents, big ascents and successions over all permutations in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Shi-Mei Ma , Hao Qi , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

In this note we introduce a new class of refined Eulerian polynomials defined by $$A_n(p,q)=\sum_{\pi\in\mathfrak{S}_n}p^{{\rm odes}(\pi)}q^{{\rm edes}(\pi)},$$ where ${\rm odes}(\pi)$ and ${\rm edes}(\pi)$ enumerate the number of descents…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Hua Sun

It is well known that descents and excedances are equidistributed in the symmetric group. We show that the descent and excedance enumerators, summed over permutations with a fixed first letter are identical when we perform a simple change…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Hiranya Kishore Dey , Umesh Shankar , Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian

Gamma-positivity is an elementary property that polynomials with symmetric coefficients may have, which directly implies their unimodality. The idea behind it stems from work of Foata, Sch\"utzenberger and Strehl on the Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Christos A. Athanasiadis

In this paper, we first consider a generalization of the David-Barton identity which relate the alternating run polynomials to Eulerian polynomials. By using context-free grammars, we then present a combinatorial interpretation of a family…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Shi-Mei Ma , Jun Ma , Yeong-Nan Yeh

It is known that the Ehrhart polynomials of cross-polytopes, as well as of pyramids over them, have positive coefficients. We give a combinatorial proof of this fact by showing that a scaled version of the Ehrhart polynomials are generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Krishna Menon , Emil Verkama

The descent polynomials of separable permutations and derangements are both demonstrated to be unimodal. Moreover, we prove that the $\gamma$-coefficients of the first are positive with an interpretation parallel to the classical Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Shishuo Fu , Zhicong Lin , Jiang Zeng

In this paper, we present some criteria for the $2$-$q$-log-convexity and $3$-$q$-log-convexity of combinatorial sequences, which can be regarded as the first column of certain infinite triangular array $[A_{n,k}(q)]_{n,k\geq0}$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Bao-Xuan Zhu

We establish closed-form expansions for the universal edge elimination polynomial of paths and cycles and their generating functions. This includes closed-form expansions for the bivariate matching polynomial, the bivariate chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Klaus Dohmen

We introduce a family of quasisymmetric functions called {\em Eulerian quasisymmetric functions}, which have the property of specializing to enumerators for the joint distribution of the permutation statistics, major index and excedance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-19 John Shareshian , Michelle L. Wachs

We introduce the binomial-Stirling-Eulerian polynomials, denoted $\tilde{A}_n(x,y|{\alpha})$, which encompass binomial coefficients, Eulerian numbers and two Stirling statistics: the left-to-right minima and the right-to-left minima. When…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Kathy Q. Ji , Zhicong Lin

In order to study signed Eulerian numbers, we introduce permutations of a particular type, called parity-alternate permutations, because they take even and odd entries alternately. The objective of this paper is twofold. The first is to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shinji Tanimoto

The combinatorial theory for the set of parity alternating permutations is expounded. In view of the numbers of ascents and inversions, several enumerative aspects of the set are investigated. In particular, it is shown that signed Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Shinji Tanimoto