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The circular descent of a permutation $\sigma$ is a set $\{\sigma(i)\mid \sigma(i)>\sigma(i+1)\}$. In this paper, we focus on the enumerations of permutations by the circular descent set. Let $cdes_n(S)$ be the number of permutations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-05 Hungyung Chang , Jun Ma , Yeong-Nan Yeh

Permutation patterns and pattern avoidance have been intensively studied in combinatorics and computer science, going back at least to the seminal work of Knuth on stack-sorting (1968). Perhaps the most natural algorithmic question in this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn , László Kozma , Dániel Marx

The subject of pattern avoiding permutations has its roots in computer science, namely in the problem of sorting a permutation through a stack. A formula for the number of permutations of length n that can be sorted by passing it twice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Anders Claesson , Sergey Kitaev , Einar Steingrimsson

Visontai conjectured in 2013 that the joint distribution of ascent and distinct nonzero value numbers on the set of subexcedant sequences is the same as that of descent and inverse descent numbers on the set of permutations. This conjecture…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jean-Luc Baril , Vincent Vajnovszki

It is known when we call a poset P, a $\mathcal{P}$-chain permutational poset, given a subset of permutations $\mathcal{P}$ of the symmetric group $S_{n}$. In this work, we use the same idea to study subsets of words of length $n$, that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Amrita Acharyya

We consider a recursive record-filtering procedure, which we informally call Disappear-Sort. Let $D_n$ denote the random variable giving the required number of passes in Disappear-Sort to eliminate a sequence of length $n$ sampled as i.i.d.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Jackson Zariski , Kaitlin Kratter

Recall that a Stirling permutation is a permutation on the multiset $\{1,1,2,2,\ldots,n,n\}$ such that any numbers appearing between repeated values of $i$ must be greater than $i$. We call a Stirling permutation ``flattened'' if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Adam Buck , Jennifer Elder , Azia A. Figueroa , Pamela E. Harris , Kimberly Harry , Anthony Simpson

In this paper, we study the relationship among left peaks, interior peaks and up-down runs of simsun permutations. Properties of the generating polynomials, including the recurrence relation, generating function and real-rootedness are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Shi-Mei Ma , Yeong-Nan Yeh

It is known that, when $n$ is even, the number of permutations of $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$ all of whose cycles have odd length equals the number of those all of whose cycles have even length. Adin, Heged\H{u}s and Roichman recently found a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Sergi Elizalde

In this paper, we find distribution of descents over $(n-3)$- and $(n-4)$-stack-sortable permutations in terms of Eulerian polynomials. Our results generalize the enumeration results by Claesson, Dukes, and Steingr\'{\i}msson on $(n-3)$-…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Sergey Kitaev , Philip B. Zhang

Motivated by a conjecture of Savage and Visontai about the equidistribution of the descent statistic on signed permutations of the multiset $\{1,1,2,2,\ldots,n,n\}$ and the ascent statistic on $(1,4,3,8,\ldots,2n-1,4n)$-inversion sequences,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-25 Zhicong Lin

In this work we obtain recurrent formulae for the number of permutations with either increasing or monotonic (i.e., both increasing and decreasing) runs of bounded length. Our formulae allow one to efficiently compute the number of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Max A. Alekseyev

A ballot permutation is a permutation {\pi} such that in any prefix of {\pi} the descent number is not more than the ascent number. In this article, we obtained a formula in close form for the multivariate generating function of {A(n,d,j)},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Tongyuan Zhao , Yue Sun , Feng Zhao

Let $N(n,r,k)$ denote the number of binary words of length $n$ that begin with $0$ and contain exactly $k$ runs (i.e., maximal subwords of identical consecutive symbols) of length $r$. We show that the generating function for the sequence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-17 James J. Madden

A $k$-Stirling permutation of order $n$ is said to be "flattened" if the leading terms of its increasing runs are in ascending order. We show that flattened $k$-Stirling permutations of order $n+1$ are in bijection correspondence with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Umesh Shankar

We define a new family of generalized Stirling permutations that can be interpreted in terms of ordered trees and forests. We prove that the number of generalized Stirling permutations with a fixed number of ascents is given by a natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-11 J. Fernando Barbero G. , Jesús Salas , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

We prove a formula for the number of permutations in $S_n$ such that their first $n-k$ entries are increasing and their longest increasing subsequence has length $n-k$. This formula first appeared as a consequence of character polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-17 Greta Panova

The numbers we study in this paper are of the form $B_{n, p}(k)$, which is the number of binary words of length $n$ that contain the word $p$ (as a subsequence) exactly $k$ times. Our motivation comes from the analogous study of pattern…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Krishna Menon , Anurag Singh

A permutation of length $n$ is called a flattened partition if the leading terms of maximal chains of ascents (called runs) are in increasing order. We analogously define flattened parking functions: a subset of parking functions for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Jennifer Elder , Pamela E. Harris , Zoe Markman , Izah Tahir , Amanda Verga

We study new statistics on permutations that are variations on the descent and the inversion statistics. In particular, we consider the alternating descent set of a permutation sigma = sigma_1sigma_2...sigma_n defined as the set of indices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-14 Denis Chebikin