Canonical characters on quasi-symmetric functions and bivariate Catalan numbers.
Rauzy classes form a partition of the set of irreducible permutations. They were introduced as part of a renormalization algorithm for interval exchange transformations. We prove an explicit formula for the cardinality of each Rauzy class. Our proof uses a geometric interpretation of permutations and Rauzy classes in terms of translation surfaces and moduli spaces.
Several authors gave various factorizations of the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers. The relations are derived with the help of connections between determinants of tridiagonal matrices and the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers using the Chebyshev polynomials. In this paper some results on factorizations of the Fibonacci–like numbers and their squares are given. We find the factorizations using the circulant matrices, their determinants and eigenvalues.