Shuffle-compatible permutation statistics
Shuffle-compatible permutation statistics
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兼容随机播放的排列统计
DOI:
10.1016/j.aim.2018.05.003
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Zhuang Yan
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作者:
I. Gessel;Zhuang Yan
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 and introduce the shuffle algebra of a shuffle-compatible permutation statistic, which encodes the distribution of the statistic over shuffles of permutations. This paper develops a theory of shuffle-compatibility for descent statistics—statistics that depend only on the descent set and length—which has close connections to the theory ofP-partitions, quasisymmetric functions, and noncommutative symmetric functions. We use our framework to prove that many descent statistics are shuffle-compatible and to give explicit descriptions of their shuffle algebras, thus unifying past results of Stanley, Gessel, Stembridge, Aguiar–Bergeron–Nyman, and Petersen.