{ "id": "1902.00978", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-02-03T22:19:45.000Z", "updated": "2019-02-03T22:19:45.000Z", "title": "Central limit theorem for peaks of a random permutation in a fixed conjugacy class of $S_n$", "authors": [ "Jason Fulman", "Gene B. Kim", "Sangchul Lee" ], "comment": "21 pages, 1 figure", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.PR" ], "abstract": "The number of peaks of a random permutation is known to be asymptotically normal. We give a new proof of this and prove a central limit theorem for the distribution of peaks in a fixed conjugacy class of the symmetric group. Our technique is to apply ``analytic combinatorics'' to study a complicated but exact generating function for peaks in a given conjugacy class.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-02-03T22:19:45.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "central limit theorem", "fixed conjugacy class", "random permutation", "symmetric group", "analytic combinatorics" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 21, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }