Studies in Appl. Math., 83, 1990, p. 31-59

Dominique Foata and Doron Zeilberger

Denert's permutation statistic is indeed Euler-Mahonian

Abstract. A conjecture by Marleen Denert concerning a bivariate statistic on the permutation group is proved. The statistic has the same distribution as the pair consisting of the number of descents and the major index.

foata@math.u-strasbg.fr, zeilberg@math.temple.edu

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