Partitions with parts in a finite set and with parts outside a finite set.
Let G be a finite group of even order. We give some bounds for the probability p(G) that a randomly chosen element in G has a square root. In particular, we prove that p(G) ≤ 1 - ⌊√|G|⌋/|G|. Moreover, we show that if the Sylow 2-subgroup of G is not a proper normal elementary abelian subgroup of G, then p(G) ≤ 1 - 1/√|G|. Both of these bounds are best possible upper bounds for p(G), depending only on the order of G.
In this paper we study a random walk on an affine building of type Ãr, whose radial part, when suitably normalized, converges toward the brownian motion of the Weyl chamber. This gives a new discrete approximation of this process, alternative to the one of Biane (Probab. Theory Related Fields89 (1991) 117–129). This extends also the link at the probabilistic level between riemannian symmetric spaces of the noncompact type and their discrete counterpart, which had been previously discovered by Bougerol...
We study integer partitions with respect to the classical word statistics of levels and descents subject to prescribed parity conditions. For instance, a partition with summands may be enumerated according to descents while tracking the individual parities of and . There are two types of parity levels, E = E and O = O, and four types of parity-descents, E > E, E > O, O > E and O > O, where E and O represent arbitrary even and odd summands. We obtain functional equations and explicit...
We study moments of the difference concerning derangement polynomials . For the first moment, we obtain an explicit formula in terms of the exponential integral function and we show that it is always negative for . For the higher moments, we obtain a multiple integral representation of the order of the moment under computation.