{ "id": "2305.09457", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-05-16T14:18:43.000Z", "updated": "2023-05-16T14:18:43.000Z", "title": "Permutations with few inversions", "authors": [ "Anders Claesson", "Atli Fannar FranklĂ­n", "Einar SteingrĂ­msson" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "A curious generating function $S_0(x)$ for permutations of $[n]$ with exactly $n$ inversions is presented. Moreover, $(xC(x))^iS_0(x)$ is shown to be the generating function for permutations of $[n]$ with exactly $n-i$ inversions, where $C(x)$ is the generating function for the Catalan numbers.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-05-16T14:18:43.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "permutations", "inversions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }