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In their paper published in 1997, Richmond and Richmond classified metric spaces in which all triangles are degenerate. That result was later reproved by Dovgoshei and Dordovskii in the finite case and it was generalized to finite…

The derangement polynomial for the symmetric group enumerates derangements by the number of excedances. It can be interpreted as the local $h$-polynomial, in the sense of Stanley, of the barycentric subdivision of the simplex. Motivated by…

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