On the powers of the descent set statistic

Richard Ehrenborg; Alex Happ

doi:10.1016/j.aam.2017.10.003

On the powers of the descent set statistic

Richard Ehrenborg
, Alex Happ

Mathematics

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Abstract

We study the sum of the rth powers of the descent set statistic and how many small prime factors occur in these numbers. Our results depend upon the base p expansion of n and r.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-17
Number of pages	17
Journal	Advances in Applied Mathematics
Volume	96
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aam.2017.10.003
State	Published - May 2018

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The authors thank the referee for comments on an earlier version of this paper. This work was supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation (# 429370 , Richard Ehrenborg).

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Simons Foundation	429370

Keywords

Base p expansion
Descent set statistic
Number of prime factors

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Applied Mathematics

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