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We prove several general formulas for the distributions of various permutation statistics over any set of permutations whose quasisymmetric generating function is a symmetric function. Our formulas involve certain kinds of plethystic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Ira M. Gessel , Yan Zhuang

We present (bi-)symmetric generating functions for the joint distributions of Euler-Stirling statistics on permutations, including the number of descents ($\mathsf{des}$), inverse descents ($\mathsf{ides}$), the number of left-to-right…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Emma Yu Jin

In this paper we look at polynomials arising from statistics on the classes of involutions, $I_n$, and involutions with no fixed points, $J_n$, in the symmetric group. Our results are motivated by F. Brenti's conjecture which states that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. M. B. Dukes

We offer a new proof that a certain q-analogue of multinomial coeffi- cients furnishes a q-counting of the set of permutations of an associated multiset of positive integers, according to the number of inversions in such arrangements. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Shashikant Mulay , Carl Wagner

We study the two statistics, the inversion number and the major index, on Catalan combinatorial objects such as $r$-Dyck paths, $r$-Stirling permutations, non-crossing partitions, Dyck tilings, and symmetric Dyck paths. We show that they…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Keiichi Shigechi

Starting from some considerations we make about the relations between certain difference statistics and the classical permutation statistics we study permutations whose inversion number and excedance difference coincide. It turns out that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Astrid Reifegerste

The inversion number and the major index are equidistributed on the symmetric group. This is a classical result, first proved by MacMahon, then by Foata by means of a combinatorial bijection. Ever since many refinements have been derived,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guo-Niu Han

Simsun permutations, Andr\'e I permutations and Andr\'e II permutations are three combinatorial models for Euler numbers. It's known that the descent statistic is equidistributed over the set of Andr\'e I permutations and the set of simsun…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Guo-Niu Han , Kathy Q. Ji , Huan Xiong

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

In the first part of the paper, we study the inversion statistic of random permutations under the family $(\mathbb{P}_\theta^{(n)})_{\theta \ge 0}$ of Ewens sampling distributions on $S_n$. We obtain a rather simple exact formula for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Ross G. Pinsky , Dominic T. Schickentanz

Inversion sequences are integer sequences $(\sigma_1, \dots, \sigma_n)$ such that $0 \leqslant \sigma_i < i$ for all $1 \leqslant i \leqslant n$. The study of pattern-avoiding inversion sequences began in two independent articles by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Benjamin Testart

We study how the inversion statistic is influenced by fixed points in a permutation. %The expected number of inversions in a uniformly random permutation in $S_n$ is $\frac{n(n-1)}4$. For each $n\in\mathbb{N}$, and each $k\in\{0,1,\cdots,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Ross G. Pinsky

In the context of the shuffle theorem, many classical integer sequences appear with a natural refinement by two statistics $q$ and $t$: for example the Catalan and Schr\"oder numbers. In particular, the bigraded Hilbert series of diagonal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Sylvie Corteel , Matthieu Josuat-Vergès , Anna Vanden Wyngaerd

We study the joint distribution of descents and inverse descents over the set of permutations of n letters. Gessel conjectured that the two-variable generating function of this distribution can be expanded in a given basis with nonnegative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Mirkó Visontai

The excedance number for S_n is known to have an Eulerian distribution. Nevertheless, the classical proof uses descents rather than excedances. We present a direct recursive proof which seems to be folklore and extend it to the colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-03 Eli Bagno , David Garber , Toufik Mansour , Robert Shwartz

The alternating descent statistic on permutations was introduced by Chebikin as a variant of the descent statistic. We show that the alternating descent polynomials on permutations are unimodal via a five-term recurrence relation. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Zhicong Lin , Shi-Mei Ma , David G. L. Wang , Liuquan Wang

We derive functional equations for distributions of six classical statistics (ascents, descents, left-to-right maxima, right-to-left maxima, left-to-right minima, and right-to-left minima) on separable and irreducible separable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Joanna N. Chen , Sergey Kitaev , Philip B. Zhang

A permutation $\sigma$ of a multiset is called Stirling permutation if $\sigma(s)\ge \sigma(i)$ as soon as $\sigma(i)=\sigma(j)$ and $i<s<j.$ In our paper we study Stirling polynomials that arise in the generating function for descent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Askar Dzhumadil'daev , Damir Yeliussizov

We present four constructions of inversion sequences, and use them to compute the enumeration sequences of 24 classes of pattern-avoiding inversion sequences. This completes the enumeration of inversion sequences avoiding one or two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Benjamin Testart

Recently Cheng et al. (Adv. in Appl. Math. 143 (2023) 102451) generalized the inversion number to partial permutations, which are also known as Laguerre digraphs, and asked for a suitable analogue of MacMahon's major index. We provide such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Ming-Jian Ding , Jiang Zeng