On products of long cycles: short cycle dependence and separation probabilities

DOI10.1007/S10801-014-0578-6zbMATH Open1326.05171arXiv1211.6630OpenAlexW2068711047MaRDI QIDQ894246FDOQ894246

Authors: Valentin Féray, Amarpreet Rattan 

Publication date: 30 November 2015

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

Abstract: We present various results on multiplying cycles in the symmetric group. Our first result is a generalisation of the following theorem of Boccara (1980): the number of ways of writing an odd permutation in the symmetric group on $n$ symbols as a product of an $n$-cycle and an $n-1$-cycle is independent of the permutation chosen. We give a number of different approaches of our generalisation. One partial proof uses an inductive method which we also apply to other problems. In particular, we give a formula for the distribution of the number of cycles over all products of cycles of fixed lengths. Another application is related to the recent notion of separation probabilities for permutations introduced by Bernardi, Du, Morales and Stanley (2014).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6630

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetric groupproducts of cyclesseparation probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Paths and cycles (05C38) Graph operations (line graphs, products, etc.) (05C76) Symmetric groups (20B30)

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