An involution on increasing trees

We introduce a method to construct bijections on increasing trees. Using this method, we construct an involution on increasing trees, from which we obtain the equidistribution of the statistics ‘number of odd vertices’ and ‘number of even vertices at odd levels’. As an application, we deduce that the expected value of the number of even vertices is twice the expected value of the number of odd vertices in a random recursive tree of given size.     

On bijections for pattern-avoiding permutations

By considering bijections from the set of Dyck paths of length 2n onto each of Sn(321) and Sn(132), Elizalde and Pak in [S. Elizalde, I. Pak, Bijections for refined restricted permutations, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 105 (2004) 207-219] gave a bijection that preserves the number of fixed points and the number of excedances in each σ∈Sn(321). We show that a direct bijection Γ:Sn(321)→Sn(132) introduced by Robertson in [A. Robertson, Restricted permutations from Catalan to Fine and back, Sém. Lothar. Combin. 50 (2004) B50g] also preserves the number of fixed points and the number of excedances in each σ. We also show that a bijection ?^∗:Sn(213)→Sn(321) studied in [J. Backelin, J. West, G. Xin, Wilf-equivalence for singleton classes, Adv. in Appl. Math. 38 (2007) 133-148] and [M. Bousquet-Melou, E. Steingrimsson, Decreasing subsequences in permutations and Wilf equivalence for involutions, J. Algebraic Combin. 22 (2005) 383-409] preserves these same statistics, and we show that an analogous bijection from Sn(132) onto Sn(213) does the same.     

A continuous family of partition statistics equidistributed with length

This article investigates a remarkable generalization of the generating function that enumerates partitions by area and number of parts. This generating function is given by the infinite product _∏i?11/(1−tqi). We give uncountably many new combinatorial interpretations of this infinite product involving partition statistics that arose originally in the context of Hilbert schemes. We construct explicit bijections proving that all of these statistics are equidistributed with the length statistic on partitions of n. Our bijections employ various combinatorial constructions involving cylindrical lattice paths, Eulerian tours on directed multigraphs, and oriented trees.     

带Neumann边值条件的非线性微分算子逆的正性

本文研究一类带Neumann边值条件的非线性微分算子.利用Wirtinger不等式,比较定理,最大值原理以及上下解方法得到了该算子的双射性和逆算子的正性结论.     

Counting labelled trees with given indegree sequence

For a labelled tree on the vertex set [n]:={1,2,…,n}, define the direction of each edge ij to be i→j if i<j. The indegree sequence of T can be considered as a partition λ?n−1. The enumeration of trees with a given indegree sequence arises in counting secant planes of curves in projective spaces. Recently Ethan Cotterill conjectured a formula for the number of trees on [n] with indegree sequence corresponding to a partition λ. In this paper we give two proofs of Cotterill's conjecture: one is “semi-combinatorial” based on induction, the other is a bijective proof.     

Bijective proofs of Gould's and Rothe's identities

We first give a bijective proof of Gould's identity in the model of binary words. Then we deduce Rothe's identity from Gould's identity again by a bijection, which also leads to a double-sum extension of the q-Chu-Vandermonde formula.     

Introduction to partially ordered patterns

We review selected known results on partially ordered patterns (POPs) that include co-unimodal, multi- and shuffle patterns, peaks and valleys ((modified) maxima and minima) in permutations, the Horse permutations and others. We provide several new results on a class of POPs built on an arbitrary flat poset, obtaining, as corollaries, the bivariate generating function for the distribution of peaks (valleys) in permutations, links to Catalan, Narayana, and Pell numbers, as well as generalizations of a few results in the literature including the descent distribution. Moreover, we discuss a q-analogue for a result on non-overlapping segmented POPs. Finally, we suggest several open problems for further research.