Martingales and descent statistics (Q2155934)

This paper considers the asymptotic distribution of the number of descents in random permutations. The Berry-Esseen theorem of \textit{E. Bolthausen} [Ann. Probab. 10, 672--688 (1982; Zbl 0494.60020)] is extended to martingale differences of time-dependent variances. The author presents its applications to the combinatorial statistics satisfying certain recurrence relation conditions. These statistics include inversions, descents in signed permutations, descents in Stirling permutations, the length of the longest alternating subsequences, descents in matchings and two-sided Eulerian numbers.