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We prove a conjecture of Haglund which can be seen as an extension of the equidistribution of the inversion number and the major index over permutations to ordered set partitions. Haglund's conjecture implicitly defines two statistics on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Jeffrey B. Remmel , Andrew Timothy Wilson

We introduce a new permutation statistic, namely, the number of cycles of length $q$ consisting of consecutive integers, and consider the distribution of this statistic among the permutations of $\{1,2,...,n\}$. We determine explicit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Richard A. Brualdi , Emeric Deutsch

Let G be a finite group. Let pi be a permutation from S{n}. We study the distribution of probabilities of equality a{1} a{2} ...a{n-1}a{n}=a{pi{1}}^{epsilon{1}} a{pi_{2}}^{epsilon{2}}...a{pi{n-1}}^{epsilon_{n-1}} a_{pi_{n}}^{epsilon{n}},…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Robert Shwartz , Vadim E. Levit

We give a direct combinatorial proof of the equidistribution of two pairs of permutation statistics, (des, aid) and (lec, inv), which have been previously shown to have the same joint distribution as (exc, maj), the major index and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Alexander Burstein

Let the term $k$-representation refer to the permutation representations of the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$ on $k$-tuples and $k$-subsets as well as the $S^{(n-k,1^k)}$ irreducible representation of $\mathfrak{S}_n$. Endow…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Benjamin Tsou

We introduce the notion of a weighted inversion statistic on the symmetric group, and examine its distribution on each conjugacy class. Our work generalizes the study of several common permutation statistics, including the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Jesse Campion Loth , Michael Levet , Kevin Liu , Eric Nathan Stucky , Sheila Sundaram , Mei Yin

We define a new statistic $\mathsf{sor}$ on the set of colored permutations $\mathsf{G}_{r,n}$ and prove that it has the same distribution as the length function. For the set of restricted colored permutations corresponding to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Sen-Peng Eu , Yuan-Hsun Lo , Tsai-Lien Wong

Recently, many authors have investigated how various partition statistics distribute as the size of the partition grows. In this work, we look at a particular statistic arising from the recent rejuvenation of MacMahon's partition analysis.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 William Craig , Runqiao Li

We use representation theory of $S_n$ to analyze the mixing of permutation cycle type statistics $a_j(\sigma) = ${# of $j$-cycles of $\sigma$} for any fixed $j$ and $\sigma$ resulting from a random $i$-cycle walk on $S_n$. We also derive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Dominic Arcona

Let $S_n$ be the symmetric group on the set $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$. Given a permutation $\sigma=\sigma_1\sigma_2 \cdots \sigma_n \in S_n$, we say it has a descent at index $i$ if $\sigma_i>\sigma_{i+1}$. Let $\mathcal{D}(\sigma)$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Alexander Diaz-Lopez , Kathryn Haymaker , Colin McGarry , Dylan McMahon

We construct a statistic-swapping involution on the Cartesian product of the generalized symmetric group $S(k,n)$ with the symmetric group $S_{kn}$, which swaps the number of fixed points in the generalized symmetric group element with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Peter Kagey , Kai Mawhinney

We are interested in two random matrix ensembles related to permutations: the ensemble of permutation matrices following Ewens' distribution of a given parameter $\theta >0$, and its modification where entries equal to $1$ in the matrices…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Valentin Bahier

The action of a finite reflection group (type A) on its set of roots is understood as a permutation representation or group action. We show that this representation is an induced representation from a certain kind of parabolic subgroup.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-03-13 Mark Sterling

A variety of descent and major-index statistics have been defined for symmetric groups, hyperoctahedral groups, and their generalizations. Typically associated to pairs of such statistics is an Euler--Mahonian distribution, a bivariate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-07 Matthias Beck , Benjamin Braun

Since the early work of Richard Stanley, it has been observed that several permutation statistics have a remarkable property with respect to shuffles of permutations. We formalize this notion of a shuffle-compatible permutation statistic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Ira M. Gessel , Yan Zhuang

One of the most central result in combinatorics says that the descent statistic and the excedance statistic are equidistribued over the symmetric group. As a continuation of the work of Shareshian-Wachs (Adv. Math., 225(6) (2010),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Shi-Mei Ma , Toufik Mansour , Yeong-Nan Yeh

Using classical transformations on the symmetric group and two transformations constructed in Fix-Mahonian Calculus I, we show that several multivariable statistics are equidistributed either with the triplet (fix,des,maj), or the pair…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dominique Foata , Guo-Niu Han

The length is(w) of the longest increasing subsequence of a permutation w in the symmetric group S_n has been the object of much investigation. We develop comparable results for the length as(w) of the longest alternating subsequence of w,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard P. Stanley

Denote the symmetric group of degree $n$ by $S_n$. Let $\rho$ be an irreducible representation of $S_n$ over the field of complex numbers and $\sigma\in S_n$. In this paper, we describe the set of eigenvalues of $\rho(\sigma)$. Based on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Alexey Staroletov

We extend Stanley's work on alternating permutations with extremal number of fixed points in two directions: first, alternating permutations are replaced by permutations with a prescribed descent set; second, instead of simply counting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-22 Guo-Niu Han , Guoce Xin