Expected Value of Statistics on Type-B Permutation Tableaux

Ryan Althoff, Daniel Diethrich, Amanda Lohss, Xin-Dee Low, Emily Wichert

Published 2021-02-05Version 1

Type-B permutation tableaux are combinatorial objects introduced by Lam and Williams that have an interesting connection with the partially asymmetric simple exclusion process (PASEP). In this paper, we compute the expected value of several statistics on these tableaux. Some of these computations are motivated by a similar paper on permutation tableaux. Others are motivated by the PASEP. In particular, we compute the expected number of rows, unrestricted rows, diagonal ones, adjacent south steps, and adjacent west steps.