The symmetric and unimodal expansion of Eulerian polynomials via continued fractions

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DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2011.08.005zbMATH Open1235.05008arXiv1005.4583OpenAlexW2011262620MaRDI QIDQ657995FDOQ657995

Jiang Zeng, Heesung Shin

Publication date: 11 January 2012

Published in: European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper was motivated by a conjecture of Br"{a}nd'{e}n (European J. Combin. extbf{29} (2008), no.~2, 514--531) about the divisibility of the coefficients in an expansion of generalized Eulerian polynomials, which implies the symmetric and unimodal property of the Eulerian numbers. We show that such a formula with the conjectured property can be derived from the combinatorial theory of continued fractions. We also discuss an analogous expansion for the corresponding formula for derangements and prove a (p,q)-analogue of the fact that the (-1)-evaluation of the enumerator polynomials of permutations (resp. derangements) by the number of excedances gives rise to tangent numbers (resp. secant numbers). The (p,q)-analogue unifies and generalizes our recent results (European J. Combin. extbf{31} (2010), no.~7, 1689--1705.) and that of Josuat-Verg`es (European J. Combin. extbf{31} (2010), no.~7, 1892--1906).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4583




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