We launch a systematic study of the refined Wilf-equivalences by the statistics $ {\mathsf{comp}} $ and $ {\mathsf{iar}} $, where $ {\mathsf{comp}}(\pi) $ and $ {\mathsf{iar}}(\pi) $ are the number of components and the length of the initial ascending run of a permutation $ \pi $, respectively. As Comtet was the first one to consider the statistic $ {\mathsf{comp}} $ in his book Analyse combinatoire, any statistic equidistributed with $ {\mathsf{comp}} $ over a class of permutations is called by us a Comtet statistic over such class. This work is motivated by a triple equidistribution result of Rubey on $ 321 $-avoiding permutations, and a recent result of the first and third authors that $ {\mathsf{iar}} $ is a Comtet statistic over separable permutations. Some highlights of our results are:
● Bijective proofs of the symmetry of the joint distribution $ ({\mathsf{comp}}, {\mathsf{iar}}) $ over several Catalan and Schröder classes, preserving the values of the left-to-right maxima.
● A complete classification of $ {\mathsf{comp}} $- and $ {\mathsf{iar}} $-Wilf-equivalences for length $ 3 $ patterns and pairs of length $ 3 $ patterns. Calculations of the $ ({\mathsf{des}}, {\mathsf{iar}}, {\mathsf{comp}}) $ generating functions over these pattern avoiding classes and separable permutations.
● A further refinement of Wang's descent-double descent-Wilf equivalence between separable permutations and $ (2413, 4213) $-avoiding permutations by the Comtet statistic $ {\mathsf{iar}} $.
Citation: Shishuo Fu, Zhicong Lin, Yaling Wang. Refined Wilf-equivalences by Comtet statistics[J]. Electronic Research Archive, 2021, 29(5): 2877-2913. doi: 10.3934/era.2021018
We launch a systematic study of the refined Wilf-equivalences by the statistics $ {\mathsf{comp}} $ and $ {\mathsf{iar}} $, where $ {\mathsf{comp}}(\pi) $ and $ {\mathsf{iar}}(\pi) $ are the number of components and the length of the initial ascending run of a permutation $ \pi $, respectively. As Comtet was the first one to consider the statistic $ {\mathsf{comp}} $ in his book Analyse combinatoire, any statistic equidistributed with $ {\mathsf{comp}} $ over a class of permutations is called by us a Comtet statistic over such class. This work is motivated by a triple equidistribution result of Rubey on $ 321 $-avoiding permutations, and a recent result of the first and third authors that $ {\mathsf{iar}} $ is a Comtet statistic over separable permutations. Some highlights of our results are:
● Bijective proofs of the symmetry of the joint distribution $ ({\mathsf{comp}}, {\mathsf{iar}}) $ over several Catalan and Schröder classes, preserving the values of the left-to-right maxima.
● A complete classification of $ {\mathsf{comp}} $- and $ {\mathsf{iar}} $-Wilf-equivalences for length $ 3 $ patterns and pairs of length $ 3 $ patterns. Calculations of the $ ({\mathsf{des}}, {\mathsf{iar}}, {\mathsf{comp}}) $ generating functions over these pattern avoiding classes and separable permutations.
● A further refinement of Wang's descent-double descent-Wilf equivalence between separable permutations and $ (2413, 4213) $-avoiding permutations by the Comtet statistic $ {\mathsf{iar}} $.
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