Eulerian-Catalan numbers (Q640447)

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    18 October 2011
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    Summary: We show that the Eulerian-Catalan numbers enumerate Dyck permutations. We provide two proofs for this fact, the first using the geometry of alcoved polytopes and the second a direct combinatorial proof via an Eulerian-Catalan analogue of the Chung-Feller theorem.
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    Eulerian-Catalan number
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    Dyck permutation
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    Dyck path
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    Ballot sequence
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