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An area-depth symmetric $q,t$-Catalan polynomial

Combinatorics 2022-08-12 v3

Abstract

We define two symmetric q,tq,t-Catalan polynomials in terms of the area and depth statistic and in terms of the dinv and dinv of depth statistics. We prove symmetry using an involution on plane trees. The same involution proves symmetry of the Tutte polynomials. We also provide a combinatorial proof of a remark by Garsia et al. regarding parking functions and the number of connected graphs on a fixed number of vertices.

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@article{arxiv.2109.06300,
  title  = {An area-depth symmetric $q,t$-Catalan polynomial},
  author = {Joseph Pappe and Digjoy Paul and Anne Schilling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.06300},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

17 pages; v2 references added; v3 typos fixed, version to appear in Electronic J. Combinatorics

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