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An involution is a bijection that is its own inverse. Given a permutation $\sigma$ of $[n],$ let $\mathsf{invol}(\sigma)$ denote the number of ways $\sigma$ can be expressed as a composition of two involutions of $[n].$ We prove that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Charles Burnette

A regular language has the zero-one law if its asymptotic density converges to either zero or one. We prove that the class of all zero-one languages is closed under Boolean operations and quotients. Moreover, we prove that a regular…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Ryoma Sin'ya

Consider the set of finite words on a totally ordered alphabet with $q$ letters. We prove that the distribution of the length of the standard right factor of a random Lyndon word with length $n$, divided by $n$, converges to:…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Regine Marchand , Elahe Zohoorian Azad

In a language corpus, the probability that a word occurs $n$ times is often proportional to $1/n^2$. Assigning rank, $s$, to words according to their abundance, $\log s$ vs $\log n$ typically has a slope of minus one. That simple Zipf's law…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-27 Steven A. Frank

Suppose we choose a permutation $\pi$ uniformly at random from $S_n$. Let $\mathsf{runsort}(\pi)$ be the permutation obtained by sorting the ascending runs of $\pi$ into lexicographic order. Alexandersson and Nabawanda recently asked if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Noga Alon , Colin Defant , Noah Kravitz

Recall that an excedance of a permutation $\pi$ is any position $i$ such that $\pi_i > i$. Inspired by the work of Hopkins, McConville and Propp (Elec. J. Comb., 2017) on sorting using toppling, we say that a permutation is toppleable if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Arvind Ayyer , Daniel Hathcock , Prasad Tetali

This paper describes the quality of convergence to an infinitely divisible law relative to free multiplicative convolution. We show that convergence in distribution for products of identically distributed and infinitesimal free random…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-07 Michael Anshelevich , Jiun-Chau Wang , Ping Zhong

We give a new semi-combinatorial proof for the equality of the number of ballot permutations of length $n$ and the number of odd order permutations of length $n$, which is due to Bernardi, Duplantier and Nadeau. Spiro conjectures that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-22 David G. L. Wang , Jerry J. R. Zhang

We consider correlated random variables $X_1,\dots,X_n$ taking values in $\{0,1\}$ such that, for any permutation $\pi$ of $\{1,\dots,n\}$, the random vectors $(X_1,\dots,X_n)$ and $(X_{\pi(1)},\dots,X_{\pi(n)})$ have the same distribution.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Max Jauregui , Constantino Tsallis

Let S_n denote the symmetric group of all permutations of the set {1, 2, ...,n} and let S = \cup_{n\ge0} S_n. If Pi is a set of permutations, then we let Av_n(Pi) be the set of permutations in S_n which avoid every permutation of Pi in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-10 Theodore Dokos , Tim Dwyer , Bryan P. Johnson , Bruce E. Sagan , Kimberly Selsor

Let $P_{n,k}$ be the number of permutations $\pi$ on [n]={1, 2,..., n} such that the length of the longest increasing subsequences of $\pi$ equals k, and let $M_{2n, k}$ be the number of matchings on [2n] with crossing number k. Define…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-23 William Y. C. Chen

A L\'evy noise on $\mathbb{R}^d$ assigns a random real "mass" $\Pi(B)$ to each Borel subset $B$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$ with finite Lebesgue measure. The distribution of $\Pi(B)$ only depends on the Lebesgue measure of $B$, and if $B_1, ..., B_n$…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-25 Steven N. Evans

Let the random variable $Z_{n,k}$ denote the number of increasing subsequences of length $k$ in a random permutation from $S_n$, the symmetric group of permutations of $\{1,...,n\}$. We show that $Var(Z_{n,k_n})=o((EZ_{n,k_n})^2)$ as $…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ross Pinsky

We checked that the distribution of words in text should uniform, which gives Heaps' law as natural result, that is, the number of types of words can be expressed as a power law of the number of tokens within text. We developed a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-16 Kim Chol-jun

Zipf's law in its basic incarnation is an empirical probability distribution governing the frequency of usage of words in a language. As Terence Tao recently remarked, it still lacks a convincing and satisfactory mathematical explanation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Yuri I. Manin

We study Mallows random permutations conditioned to avoid a given pattern $\alpha$ of length~$3$. When the bias parameter is of the form $e^{\beta/n}$, we prove that these permutations converge to a non-trivial explicit deterministic…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Thomas Budzinski , Victor Dubach , Valentin Féray , Mohamed Slim Kammoun , Mylène Maïda

We give a direct combinatorial proof of the $q,t$-symmetry relation $\tilde H_{\mu}(X;q,t)=\tilde H_{\mu'}(X;t,q)$ in the Macdonald polynomials $\tilde H_\mu$ at the specialization $q=1$. The bijection demonstrates that the Macdonald inv…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Maria Gillespie , Ryan Kaliszewski , Jennifer Morse

We derive a large deviation principle for random permutations induced by probability measures of the unit square, called permutons. These permutations are called $\mu$-random permutations. We also introduce and study a new general class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Jacopo Borga , Sayan Das , Sumit Mukherjee , Peter Winkler

In this work, we prove the joint convergence in distribution of $q$ variables modulo one obtained as partial sums of a sequence of i.i.d. square integrable random variables multiplied by a common factor given by some function of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Roberta Flenghi , Benjamin Jourdain

Languages across the world exhibit Zipf's law of abbreviation, namely more frequent words tend to be shorter. The generalized version of the law - an inverse relationship between the frequency of a unit and its magnitude - holds also for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-05 R. Ferrer-i-Cancho , C. Bentz , C. Seguin