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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

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

In this note, we prove some and conjecture other results regarding the distribution of descent top and descent bottom sets on some pattern-avoiding permutations. In particular, for 3-letter patterns, we show bijectively that the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Alexander Burstein

We study new statistics on permutations that are variations on the descent and the inversion statistics. In particular, we consider the alternating descent set of a permutation sigma = sigma_1sigma_2...sigma_n defined as the set of indices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-14 Denis Chebikin

The paper covers the new model of wage distribution in typical group of people. The model provides the opportunity to reparameterize applicable income distribution model: Pareto, logarithmically normal, logarithmically logistic, Dagum etc.…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-09-17 Dmitry Schmerling

We study the distribution of the statistics 'number of fixed points' and 'number of excedances' in permutations avoiding subsets of patterns of length 3. We solve all the cases of simultaneous avoidance of more than one pattern, giving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Sergi Elizalde

Permutation statistics constitute a classical subject of enumerative combinatorics. In her study of the genus zeta function, Denert discovered a new Mahonian statistic for permutations, which is called the Denert's statistic ({\bf $\den$})…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Kaimei Huang , Yongzhou Wen , Sherry H. F. Yan

The subject of pattern avoiding permutations has its roots in computer science, namely in the problem of sorting a permutation through a stack. A formula for the number of permutations of length n that can be sorted by passing it twice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Anders Claesson , Sergey Kitaev , Einar Steingrimsson

We present pairwise fairness metrics for ranking models and regression models that form analogues of statistical fairness notions such as equal opportunity, equal accuracy, and statistical parity. Our pairwise formulation supports both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Harikrishna Narasimhan , Andrew Cotter , Maya Gupta , Serena Wang

Building on the work of Grinberg and Stanley, we begin a systematic study of permutations with a prescribed $X$-descent set. In particular, for a set $X \subseteq \mathbb{N}^2$, and $I \subseteq [n-1]$, we study the permutations $\pi \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Mohamed Omar

Given a permutation $\pi$ chosen uniformly from $S_n$, we explore the joint distribution of $\pi(1)$ and the number of descents in $\pi$. We obtain a formula for the number of permutations with $\des(\pi)=d$ and $\pi(1)=k$, and use it to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Conger

We prove conjectures of the third author [L. Tevlin, Proc. FPSAC'07, Tianjin] on two new bases of noncommutative symmetric functions: the transition matrices from the ribbon basis have nonnegative integral coefficients. This is done by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-12 Florent Hivert , Jean-Christophe Novelli , Lenny Tevlin , Jean-Yves Thibon

We investigate permutations in terms of their cycle structure and descent set. To do this, we generalize the classical bijection of Gessel and Reutenauer to deal with permutations that have some ascending and some descending blocks. We then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Jacob Steinhardt

In 1916, MacMahon showed that permutations in $S_n$ with a fixed descent set $I$ are enumerated by a polynomial $d_I(n)$. Diaz-Lopez, Harris, Insko, Omar, and Sagan recently revived interest in this descent polynomial, and suggested the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Kaarel Hänni

This paper develops techniques to study the number of descents in random permutations via martingales. We relax an assumption in the Berry-Esseen theorem of Bolthausen (1982) to extend the theorem's scope to martingale differences of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Alperen Y. Özdemir

A Parity Alternating Permutation of the set $[n] = \{1, 2,\ldots, n\}$ is a permutation with even and odd entries alternatively. We deal with parity alternating permutations having an odd entry in the first position, PAPs. We study the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Frether Getachew Kebede , Fanja Rakotondrajao

In the last decade a huge amount of articles has been published studying pattern avoidance on permutations. From the point of view of enumeration, typically one tries to count permutations avoiding certain patterns according to their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Bernini , m. Bouvel , L. Ferrari

Using a result of Gessel and Reutenauer, we find a simple formula for the number of cyclic permutations with a given descent set, by expressing it in terms of ordinary descent numbers (i.e., those counting all permutations with a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Sergi Elizalde , Justin M. Troyka

In order to study signed Eulerian numbers, we introduce permutations of a particular type, called parity-alternate permutations, because they take even and odd entries alternately. The objective of this paper is twofold. The first is to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shinji Tanimoto

We study the expansions of permutation statistics in the basis of functions counting occurrences of a fixed pattern in a permutation. We show the finiteness of these pattern expansions for a class of permutation statistics including the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Ian Cavey , Hugh Dennin , Bridget Eileen Tenner