Abstract

We take a geometric view of lecture hall partitions and anti-lecture hall compositions in order to settle some open questions about their enumeration. In the process, we discover an intrinsic connection between these families of partitions and certain quadratic permutation statistics. We define some unusual quadratic permutation statistics and derive results about their joint distributions with linear statistics. We show that certain specializations are equivalent to the lecture hall and anti-lecture hall theorems and another leads back to a special case of a Weyl group generating function that "ought to be better known.'' Nous regardons géométriquement les partitions amphithéâtre et les compositions planétarium afin de résoudre quelques questions énumératives ouvertes. Nous découvrons un lien intrinsèque entre ces familles des partitions et certaines statistiques quadratiques de permutation. Nous définissons quelques statistiques quadratiques peu communes des permutations et dérivons des résultats sur leurs distributions jointes avec des statistiques linéaires. Nous démontrons que certaines spécialisations sont équivalentes aux théorèmes amphithéâtre et planétarium. Une autre spécialisation mène à un cas spécial de la série génératrice d'un groupe de Weyl qui "devrait être mieux connue''.

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  • IntroductionAn anti-lecture hall composition of length n is an integer sequence λ =

  • A lecture hall partition of length n is an integer sequence λ = (λ1, λ2, . . . , λn) [BME97] satisfying0 ≤ λ1 ≤ λ2 ≤ . . . ≤ λn . nAn anti-lecture hall composition of length n is an integer sequence λ = (λ1, λ2, . . . , λn) [CS03] satisfying λ1 ≥ λ2 ≥ . . . ≥ λn ≥ 0.1365–8050 c 2010 Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS), Nancy, FranceKatie L

  • These intriguing combinatorial objects and their various generalizations have been the subject of several papers and they have been shown to be related to Bott’s formula in the theory of affine Coxeter groups [BME97, BME99], Euler’s partition theorem [BME97, Yee01, SY08], the Gaussian polynomials [CLS07, CS04], the q-Chu-Vandermonde Identities [CLS07, CS04], the q-Gauss summation [ACS09], and the little Gollnitz partition theorems [CSS09]

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Summary

Introduction

An anti-lecture hall composition of length n is an integer sequence λ = Lecture hall partitions and anti-lecture hall compositions of length n can be viewed as lattice points in Zn≥0. Similar ideas underlie the computation of the refined generating function for Ln in [BME99] and An in [CS04], but the connection with permutation statistics, a key ingredient in the relationship between Ln and An, was missed.

Permutation statistics and stable sorting
The bijection for lecture hall partitions
The bijection for anti-lecture hall compositions
Generating Functions
Quadratic Permutation Statistics
Further directions
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