Permutations with ascending and descending blocks.
The aim of this paper is to characterize the patterns of successive distances of leaves in plane trivalent trees, and give a very short characterization of their parity pattern. Besides, we count how many trees satisfy some given sequences of patterns.
This article considers the eta power . It is proved that the coefficients of in this expression, as polynomials in b, exhibit equidistribution of the coefficients in the nonzero residue classes mod 5 when n = 5j+4. Other symmetries, as well as symmetries for other primes and prime powers, are proved, and some open questions are raised.