Moments of characteristic polynomials enumerate two-rowed lexicographic arrays (Q1408528)

The author gives an interpretation of moments of characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices in terms of counts of two-rowed lexicographic arrays whose weakly increasing subsequences have at most \(N\) elements. This connects the theory of these moments to last passage percolation theory, and gives a new interpretation of the conjecture \textit{J. P. Keating} and \textit{N. C. Snaith} [Commun. Math. Phys. 214, 57--89 (2000; Zbl 1051.11048)].