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Department of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Math 269 - Combinatorics
Gene Kim
University of Southern California
Distribution of descents in matchings and derangements
Abstract:
The distribution of descents in certain conjugacy classes of $S_n$ have been previously studied, and it is shown that its moments have interesting properties. This talk provides a bijective proof of the symmetry of the descents and major indices of matchings and uses a generating function approach to prove a central limit theorem for the number of descents in matchings. We also extend this result to derangements.
Host: Brendon Rhoades
March 13, 2018
4:00 PM
AP&M 7321
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