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Pattern avoiding machines were recently introduced by Claesson, Ferrari and the current author to gain a better understanding of the classical $2$-stacksort problem. In this paper we generalize these devices by allowing permutations with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Giulio Cerbai

We prove a "decomposition lemma" that allows us to count preimages of certain sets of permutations under West's stack-sorting map $s$. As a first application, we give a new proof of Zeilberger's formula for the number of 2-stack-sortable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Colin Defant

We study two generalizations of the gamma-expansion of Eulerian polynomials from the viewpoint of the decompositions of statistics. We first present an expansion formula of the trivariate Eulerian polynomials, which are the enumerators for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Shi-Mei Ma , Jun Ma , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

In this paper, we compute the distributions of the statistic number of crossings over permutations avoiding one of the pairs $\{321,231\}$, $\{123,132\}$ and $\{123,213\}$. The obtained results are new combinatorial interpretations of two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Paul M. Rakotomamonjy , Sandrataniaina R. Andriantsoa , Arthur Randrianarivony

This paper develops methods to study the distribution of Eulerian statistics defined by second-order recurrence relations. We define a random process to decompose the statistics over compositions of integers. It is shown that the numbers of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Alperen Y. Özdemir

The Stirling permutations introduced by Gessel-Stanley have recently received considerable attention. Motivated by Ji's work on $(\alpha,\beta)$-Eulerian polynomials (Sci China Math., 2025) and Yan-Yang-Lin's work on $1/k$-Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Shi-Mei Ma , Jianfeng Wang , Guiying Yan , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

We study a sorting procedure (run-sorting) on permutations, where runs are rearranged in lexicographic order. We describe a rather surprising bijection on permutations on length $n$, with the property that it sends the set of peak-values to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Per Alexandersson , Olivia Nabawanda

We consider a sequence of four variable polynomials by refining Stieltjes' continued fraction for Eulerian polynomials. Using combinatorial theory of Jacobi-type continued fractions and bijections we derive various combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Bin Han , Jianxi Mao , Jiang Zeng

Nonnesting permutations are permutations of the multiset $\{1,1,2,2,\dots,n,n\}$ that avoid subsequences of the form $abba$ for any $a\neq b$. These permutations have recently been studied in connection to noncrossing (also called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Sergi Elizalde , Amya Luo

Eulerian polynomials record the distribution of descents over permutations. Caylerian polynomials likewise record the distribution of descents over Cayley permutations, where a Cayley permutation is a word of positive integers such that if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Giulio Cerbai , Anders Claesson

In the context of Stirling polynomials, Gessel and Stanley introduced the definition of Stirling permutation, which has attracted extensive attention over the past decades. Recently, we introduced Stirling permutation code and provided…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Shi-Mei Ma , Hao Qi , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

The $k$-arrangements are permutations whose fixed points are $k$-colored. We prove enumerative results related to statistics and patterns on $k$-arrangements, confirming several conjectures by Blitvi\'c and Steingr\'imsson. In particular,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Shishuo Fu , Guo-Niu Han , Zhicong Lin

A permutation whose any prefix has no more descents than ascents is called a ballot permutation. In this paper, we present a decomposition of ballot permutations that enables us to construct a bijection between ballot permutations and odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Zhicong Lin , David G. L. Wang , Tongyuan Zhao

Let $s$ denote West's stack-sorting map. A permutation is called $t-\textit{sorted}$ if it is of the form $s^t(\mu)$ for some permutation $\mu$. We prove that the maximum number of descents that a $t$-sorted permutation of length $n$ can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Colin Defant

We show that the pair (des, ides) of statistics on the set of permu- tations has the same distribution as the pair (asc, row) of statistics on the set of inversion tables, proving a conjecture of Visontai. The common generating function of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Erik Aas

Permutations whose prefixes contain at least as many ascents as descents are called ballot permutations. Lin, Wang, and Zhao have previously enumerated ballot permutations avoiding small patterns and have proposed the problem of enumerating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Nathan Sun

Catalan words are particular growth-restricted words over the set of non-negative integers, and they represent still another combinatorial class counted by the Catalan numbers. We study the distribution of descents on the sets of Catalan…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Jean-Luc Baril , Sergey Kirgizov , Vincent Vajnovszki

In this paper we consider the enumeration of ordered set partitions avoiding a permutation pattern of length 2 or 3. We provide an exact enumeration for avoiding the permutation 12. We also give exact enumeration for ordered partitions with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Anant Godbole , Adam Goyt , Jennifer Herdan , Lara Pudwell

The Eulerian polynomials enumerate permutations according to their number of descents. We initiate the study of descent polynomials over Cayley permutations, which we call Caylerian polynomials. Some classical results are generalized by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Giulio Cerbai , Anders Claesson

This paper is concerned with multivariate refinements of the gamma-positivity of Eulerian polynomials by using the succession and fixed point statistics. Properties of the enumerative polynomials for permutations, signed permutations and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Shi-Mei Ma , Jun Ma , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh