scholarly journals Some Remarks on the Joint Distribution of Descents and Inverse Descents

10.37236/2135 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirkó Visontai

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 integer coefficients. We investigate the action of the Eulerian operators that give the recurrence for these generating functions. As a result we devise a recurrence for the coefficients in question but are unable to settle the conjecture.  We examine generalizations of the conjecture and obtain a type $B$ analog of the recurrence satisfied by the two-variable generating function. We also exhibit some connections to cyclic descents and cyclic inverse descents. Finally, we propose a combinatorial model for the joint distribution of descents and inverse descents in terms of statistics on inversion sequences.

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1161
Author(s):  
Hari Mohan Srivastava ◽  
Sama Arjika

Basic (or q-) series and basic (or q-) polynomials, especially the basic (or q-) hypergeometric functions and the basic (or q-) hypergeometric polynomials are studied extensively and widely due mainly to their potential for applications in many areas of mathematical and physical sciences. Here, in this paper, we introduce a general family of q-hypergeometric polynomials and investigate several q-series identities such as an extended generating function and a Srivastava-Agarwal type bilinear generating function for this family of q-hypergeometric polynomials. We give a transformational identity involving generating functions for the generalized q-hypergeometric polynomials which we have introduced here. We also point out relevant connections of the various q-results, which we investigate here, with those in several related earlier works on this subject. We conclude this paper by remarking that it will be a rather trivial and inconsequential exercise to give the so-called (p,q)-variations of the q-results, which we have investigated here, because the additional parameter p is obviously redundant.


2022 ◽  
Vol Volume 44 - Special... ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreejit Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Ae Yee

Recently, George Beck posed many interesting partition problems considering the number of ones in partitions. In this paper, we first consider the crank generating function weighted by the number of ones and obtain analytic formulas for this weighted crank function under conditions of the crank being less than or equal to some specific integer. We connect these cumulative and point crank functions to the generating functions of partitions with certain sizes of Durfee rectangles. We then consider a generalization of the crank for $k$-colored partitions, which was first introduced by Fu and Tang, and investigate the corresponding generating function for this crank weighted by the number of parts in the first subpartition of a $k$-colored partition. We show that the cumulative generating functions are the same as the generating functions for certain unimodal sequences.


10.37236/81 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Y. C. Chen ◽  
Robert L. Tang ◽  
Alina F. Y. Zhao

Based on the notion of excedances of type $B$ introduced by Brenti, we give a type $B$ analogue of the derangement polynomials. The connection between the derangement polynomials and Eulerian polynomials naturally extends to the type $B$ case. Using this relation, we derive some basic properties of the derangement polynomials of type $B$, including the generating function formula, the Sturm sequence property, and the asymptotic normal distribution. We also show that the derangement polynomials are almost symmetric in the sense that the coefficients possess the spiral property.


10.37236/1958 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kyle Petersen

In the context of generating functions for $P$-partitions, we revisit three flavors of quasisymmetric functions: Gessel's quasisymmetric functions, Chow's type B quasisymmetric functions, and Poirier's signed quasisymmetric functions. In each case we use the inner coproduct to give a combinatorial description (counting pairs of permutations) to the multiplication in: Solomon's type A descent algebra, Solomon's type B descent algebra, and the Mantaci-Reutenauer algebra, respectively. The presentation is brief and elementary, our main results coming as consequences of $P$-partition theorems already in the literature.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-426
Author(s):  
S. Naderi ◽  
R. Kazemi ◽  
M. H. Behzadi

Abstract The bucket recursive tree is a natural multivariate structure. In this paper, we apply a trivariate generating function approach for studying of the depth and distance quantities in this tree model with variable bucket capacities and give a closed formula for the probability distribution, the expectation and the variance. We show as j → ∞, lim-iting distributions are Gaussian. The results are obtained by presenting partial differential equations for moment generating functions and solving them.


2015 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings, 27th... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenny Tevlin

International audience This paper contains two results. First, I propose a $q$-generalization of a certain sequence of positive integers, related to Catalan numbers, introduced by Zeilberger, see Lassalle (2010). These $q$-integers are palindromic polynomials in $q$ with positive integer coefficients. The positivity depends on the positivity of a certain difference of products of $q$-binomial coefficients.To this end, I introduce a new inversion/major statistics on lattice walks. The difference in $q$-binomial coefficients is then seen as a generating function of weighted walks that remain in the upper half-plan. Cet document contient deux résultats. Tout d’abord, je vous propose un $q$-generalization d’une certaine séquence de nombres entiers positifs, liés à nombres de Catalan, introduites par Zeilberger (Lassalle, 2010). Ces $q$-integers sont des polynômes palindromiques à $q$ à coefficients entiers positifs. La positivité dépend de la positivité d’une certaine différence de produits de $q$-coefficients binomial.Pour ce faire, je vous présente une nouvelle inversion/major index sur les chemins du réseau. La différence de $q$-binomial coefficients est alors considérée comme une fonction de génération de trajets pondérés qui restent dans le demi-plan supérieur.


2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (07) ◽  
pp. 1217-1235 ◽  
Author(s):  
VÍCTOR BLANCO ◽  
PEDRO A. GARCÍA-SÁNCHEZ ◽  
JUSTO PUERTO

This paper presents a new methodology to compute the number of numerical semigroups of given genus or Frobenius number. We apply generating function tools to the bounded polyhedron that classifies the semigroups with given genus (or Frobenius number) and multiplicity. First, we give theoretical results about the polynomial-time complexity of counting these semigroups. We also illustrate the methodology analyzing the cases of multiplicity 3 and 4 where some formulas for the number of numerical semigroups for any genus and Frobenius number are obtained.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1057-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER J. GRABNER ◽  
ARNOLD KNOPFMACHER ◽  
STEPHAN WAGNER

We consider statistical properties of random integer partitions. In order to compute means, variances and higher moments of various partition statistics, one often has to study generating functions of the form P(x)F(x), where P(x) is the generating function for the number of partitions. In this paper, we show how asymptotic expansions can be obtained in a quasi-automatic way from expansions of F(x) around x = 1, which parallels the classical singularity analysis of Flajolet and Odlyzko in many ways. Numerous examples from the literature, as well as some new statistics, are treated via this methodology. In addition, we show how to compute further terms in the asymptotic expansions of previously studied partition statistics.


1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Braun

The problem of approximating an arbitrary probability generating function (p.g.f.) by a polynomial is considered. It is shown that if the coefficients rj are chosen so that LN(·) agrees with g(·) to k derivatives at s = 1 and to (N – k) derivatives at s = 0, then LN is in fact an upper or lower bound to g; the nature of the bound depends only on k and not on N. Application of the results to the problems of finding bounds for extinction probabilities, extinction time distributions and moments of branching process distributions are examined.


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