Babson-Steingrímsson statistics are indeed Mahonian (and sometimes even Euler-Mahonian) (Q5956773)

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    Babson-Steingrímsson statistics are indeed Mahonian (and sometimes even Euler-Mahonian)
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1713308

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      Babson-Steingrímsson statistics are indeed Mahonian (and sometimes even Euler-Mahonian) (English)
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      10 October 2002
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      \textit{E. Babson} and \textit{E. Steingrímsson} [Sémin. Lothar. Comb. 44, B44b (2000; Zbl 0957.05010)] introduced seven new permutation statistics and conjectured that they were all Mahonian (i.e. equidistributed with the number of inversions). This paper proves the conjecture for four of them. Three of them are given a computer-generated proof, implementing D. Zeilberger's umbral transfer method [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 91, 451-463 (2000; Zbl 0961.05003)]. Two of the statistics are even Euler-Mahonian.
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      Mahonian statistics
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      permutation statistics
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      umbral transfer method
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