Two enumerative results on cycles of permutations
Two enumerative results on cycles of permutations
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排列循环的两个枚举结果
DOI:
10.1016/j.ejc.2011.01.011
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2009
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R. Stanley
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R. Stanley
Answering a question of Bóna, it is shown that for n≥2 the probability that 1 and 2 are in the same cycle of a product of two n-cycles on the set {1,2,…,n} is 1/2 if n is odd and 12−2(n−1)(n+2) if n is even. Another result concerns the polynomial Pλ(q)=∑wqκ((1,2,…,n)⋅w), where w ranges over all permutations in the symmetric group Snof cycle type λ, (1,2,…,n) denotes the n-cycle 1→2→⋯→n→1, and κ(v) denotes the number of cycles of the permutation v. A formula is obtained for Pλ(q) from which it is deduced that all zeros of Pλ(q) have real part 0.