The derangement problem relative to the Mahonian process (Q1811923): Difference between revisions

The aim of the paper is to survey the variety of \(q\)-derangement problems and to investigate a special class of four Mahonian statistics (the term ``Mahonian'' is used in honour of the mathematician P. A. McMahon) that arise by twisting the Mahonian process to be applied to a \(q\)-derangement problem by a kind of cycle placement rules. The main contribution of the paper is to provide solutions to the four types of considered Mahonian statistics and to discuss and conjecture some other results on some classes of \(q\)-derangement problems in the proposed framework.