Mathematica Scandinavica, 28 (1971), p. 308-316.
Dominique Foata and M.-P. Schützenberger
On the Principle of Equivalence of Sparre Andersen
Abstract.
An algebraic study of Sparre Andersen's equivalence principle, together with Bohnenbllust's theorem as presented by Farrell, is discussed. It deals with the fact that two statistics defined on the n! sequences of n distinct real numbers, namely the number of strictly positive numbers and the index of the first maximum among its terms, are equally distributed.
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